Many channels of the public media prepare varied programs for the occasion of Pentecost. Spectators can get to know the Christian and folk traditions of the holiday circle, and they can also follow live the events of this year's farewell in Csíksomlyo.

In Duna Television's morning magazine program, Család-barát, they are already preparing for the holiday on Friday. In the broadcast starting at 10.35 am, Bernadett Pap, an embroiderer and folk craftsman, makes a Pentecost rose, the presenters also talk to the guests about the religious part of the holiday, and in the kitchen they cook dishes related to Pentecost. From 2:20 p.m., viewers can learn more about Pentecostal traditions and customs in the program Almárium.

Due to the pandemic, the Csíksomlyó shrine will not be able to receive the large number of foreign pilgrims at Pentecost this year either, but Duna Television - together with Kossuth Radio - will broadcast the farewell events live on Saturday from 11 a.m., thereby strengthening the unity of Hungarian believers living at home and beyond the border. The following day, from 11 a.m., spectators can watch the Pentecost Sunday evangelical service from Várpalota. On Whit Monday, Zoltán Balog will be consecrated as a Reformed bishop in Nagykőrös, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will also take part in the event - which will be broadcast live by Duna from 4 p.m.

From 2:40 p.m. on Saturday, viewers can roam around the area of ​​the Csíki-havasos virtually in the national history magazine program of the M5 cultural channel, Hazajóró. In the Multiverse, which will be broadcast on Sundays from 5 p.m., the Pentecost holiday series will take center stage. Among other things, it will discuss the birth of the Christian Church and the folk customs associated with Pentecost.

A summary of the pilgrimage and mass in Csiksomlyo is prepared in Határ sénl, which can be heard on Kossuth Radio on Saturday from 6 p.m., and on Sunday and Monday, the channel's several programs deal with topics related to the Christian holiday.

The audio play The Pillar of Hope was created in cooperation with the International Eucharistic Congress and Radio Kossuth, and will be heard in 10 parts over 10 consecutive days. The first, 25-minute episode of the series covering the events of the 1938 World Eucharistic Congress will be broadcast on Whit Monday at 2:05 p.m.

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