Dominant Christian narratives of solidarity during the COVID pandemic in Hungary

In crises, the importance of solidarity becomes crucial. Religious organizations, as members civil society, have an essential role in promoting and participating action. Dominant religious organizations thus can power to shape image a crisis and, by creating dominant narrative, strengthen their social position. times crisis, hidden narratives could gain visibility, authority also more power. But previous migration actors failed fulfill actively, were unable public position Hungary. We used both quantitative qualitative text analysis methods understand action during COVID-19 pandemic. blended these with network techniques present different this communication process. Our results show that appearance or church-related does not infer interpretation, per se. Many articles mentioned good examples solidarity, but was embedded into narrative. together political visible online media, lack former’s own voice shows decreasing authority. However, we found called for new understanding interpretations pandemic its effect on society future, those represented mainly Pope Francis, echoed only few Hungarian actors, showing politically independent about issues media sphere.