Jonathan Luxmoore
Warsaw (ENI)

Hungarian church leaders have warned their country faces violence and breakdown in the face of unemployment and dislocation brought by the current financial meltdown.

"We were already in bad shape before this global crisis, and we are now affected more deeply than other countries in our region," explained the Rev. Balazs Odor, ecumenical officer of the Reformed Church in Hungary, which comprises about one fifth of the country's 9.9 million citizens.

The Protestant pastor was speaking amid growing concern at economic and social hardships in Hungary, which is considered by many commentators to be the worst affected of the European Union's 10 post-communist member countries.

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