Great Post!
Posted on 08/15/2017 8:29:40 PM PDT by marshmallow
Tamás Török, head of Hungary’s groundbreaking new department for persecuted Christians, explains to the Register what spurred his government into action.
Governments in many developed countries have been reluctant to acknowledge the widespread persecution directed against Christians in many parts of the world. But Hungary is a singular exception in this regard: Last year, it created a new government department specifically mandated to assist persecuted Christians.
Tamás Török, the former Hungarian ambassador to Italy and current head of the Hungarian government’s sub-secretariat for persecuted Christians, spoke exclusively with the Register recently about the latest activities of this unique department. He also shared his perspectives on the current immigration and refugee situation in Europe and the Middle East.
Can you tell the Register about some of the activities (visits, guests and donations, statistics about families helped) carried out since the foundation of the Deputy State Secretariat for the Aid of Persecuted Christians last year?
We have been working hard since the foundation of our department last October on raising awareness of this severe issue, as well as to identify how to best help those affected by Christian persecution. Hungary has long been committed to this job; it has co-financed the building of a school in Erbil, for instance.
Patriarch Younan of the Syriac Catholic Church, Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II of the Syriac Orthodox Church, and Father Henri Boulad, an Egyptian Jesuit of world fame from Alexandria, have been hosted by our Deputy State Secretariat and have delivered testimonials to numerous audiences at the Catholic University of Budapest.
It is of utmost importance that there remain Christians in the cradle of Christianity, where they have been present for 2,000 years. Relocation to the West is, therefore, not an option to the Church leaders.
In order to study the situation of the persecuted Churches.......
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Thank God for Hungary!
I think she was the first country to start putting up a fence when the so-called refugees started flooding into Europe. These former-Eastern Bloc countries are pretty gutsy. Much more so than their western European counterparts.
Yes. The East may just end up saving the West.
Great Post!
Hungarians are not only Budapests, but also Mohammadpests, God be praised.
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