Posted on 09/06/2016 6:17:22 PM PDT by marshmallow
Also pledges 3 million euros to help persecuted Christians worldwide.
The Hungarian government has set up a special government department for persecuted Christians and given 3 million euros ($3.35m) to help Christians facing violence and oppression around the world.
The news comes after Hungary’s Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán, met Pope Francis and Middle Eastern patriarchs in Rome at the end of August.
The new state sub-secretariat, to be headed by Tamás Török, until recently Hungary's deputy ambassador to Italy, will be part of the Hungarian Ministry for Human Capacities, a key government ministry responsible for education and church issues. The ministry is led by Zoltán Balog who accompanied Orbán to Rome last month.
Already one million euros has been freed up for the new department which will monitor, analyse and obtain information on the situation facing persecuted Christians. It will also fund high level government delegations to visit troublespots.
Eduard von Habsburg, Hungary’s ambassador to the Holy See, told the Register Sept. 6 that the idea for the new department “is a consequence of several years of the Hungarian government quietly helping Christians in the Middle East.”
He said the government has often helped to secure visas for persecuted Christians and those of other minorities in danger. Von Habsburg also said the Hungarian government “follows the philosophy that the best way to give them a chance is to help them to stay at home, in their countries and to find help there… to help them have the chance of receiving help on the spot.” Last month he said the Hungarian government had helped build a Christian school in Erbil, Iraq.
Orbán took the decision to set up the new department after meeting Pope Francis, and after taking part in the International Catholic Legislator’s Network which meets at the end of August......
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Money would be better spent eliminating islam.
I would like to see both. Islam has got to go.
If you argue with the sutras in Hungary, does that make you a Budapest?
P.S. Agree with this and with the blocking of “refugees” from Hungary; they seem to have their heads on straight.
Disagree. The Christians, especially women, are being brutally raped and tortured. No one is helping.
Kill the islam threat and you won’t need to heal the innocent.
Christians needed rescuing YESTERDAY. They cannot wait until the Muslim board is eradicated.
Eliminating islam IS rescuing and prevention all at the same time.
Put the refugees on those islands that Egyptian billionaire suggested. Give them military training.
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