It was the home of Rev. Laszlo Tokes (pronounced TOW-kesh), a 37-year-old pastor of the Hungarian Reformed Church in Romania who lived there with his wife, Edith, and their 3-year-old son, Mate.

In a ruling only available in French, the European Court of Human Rights said Romania violated Laszlo Tokes' free speech rights by taking actions to force him to remove the flags outside his office.

Today, Laszlo Tokes, the courageous pastor who brought down a dictator, continues to speak out for freedom and against totalitarianism as a member of the European Parliament and a bishop of the ...

Today, Laszlo Tokes, the courageous pastor who brought down a dictator, continues to speak out for freedom and against totalitarianism. Let us give thanks in this holiday season for what he did.

Low points in his first term included the stripping of Laszlo Tokes of an order of merit -- Tokes is an ethnic Hungarian pastor whose anti-communist resistance triggered the uprising against ...

Pastor Laszlo Tokes had been vocally critical of the totalitarian regime. Members of Tokes’ congregation refused to let the police take him and his pregnant wife, forming a massive human shield ...

On Sunday, Dec. 17, President Nicolae Ceausescu summoned top Communist Party officials across the country and, on closed-circuit TV, issued orders to kill. The night before, demonstrators had taken… ...

Hungary's nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán says the European Union is sliding toward oblivion in a rambling anti-Western speech in which he warned of a new, Asia-oriented "world order." ...

“It is enough that I speak; I shall destroy this wall of fear.” Dissident Romanian pastor Laszlo Tokes spoke these words and ignited demonstrations in Timisoara one month after the fall of the ...

As the white paper was torn away from the yellow wall, a wave of applause passed through the crowd. Beneath it, four words were sprayed in Hungarian in red paint: "Eljen Laszlo Tokes - Szabadsag" ...