For Hungarian couple, prayers and science followed by gift of family

Lutheran pastor Mate Pongracz, 36, holds his 13-month-old son Matyas in Kaposvar, Hungary, January 23, 2020. Picture taken January 23, 2020. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo

KAPOSVAR, Hungary (Reuters) - The Pongracz family, a couple who both serve as Lutheran pastors in western Hungary, consider it God's blessing that they had their first baby after undergoing in-vitro fertilization in 2015.

Since their son Lazar was born, they also had twins - a boy and a girl - from a second IVF pregnancy, so their red-brick home attached to their church in a leafy district of Kaposvar is now filled with babies' laughter.