Illyefalva has become a meeting place for politicians, artists and scientists, since the foundation of the first modern conference centre in Transylvania; the centre is run by the Christian Youth and Diaconal Foundation, established at the initiative of Béla Kató, the Reformed pastor, a few years after the fall of the communist regime in 1989. KIDA was founded in 1991 by the Reformed Church of Illyefalva and 19 private individuals, in order to fulfil three objectives:

1. to establish and operate an international youth and conference centre;

2. to create and operate a children’s village for educating orphans and abandoned children;

3. to launch and run various diaconal (charitable) programmes.