Gergely Botár/kormany.hu
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by Jack Montgomery12 Oct
2017
The
Prime Minister of Hungary has urged EU leaders to protect Christianity in
Africa and the Middle East, or risk its destruction in Europe.
Fidesz
leader Viktor Orbán said his country was taking the lead on extending aid
to Christian minorities, and, in particular, on supporting programmes to help
them return to their homelands in safety.
“We,
Hungarians, want Syriac, Iraqi, and Nigerian Christians to be able to return
home to the land that their ancestors have inhabited for hundreds of years as
soon as possible, this is what we call Hungarian solidarity … Hungary helps,”
said the prime minister, at an International Consultation on Christian
Persecution conference titled ‘Searching for Answers to a Long-Ignored
Crisis’.
“A
group of Europe’s intellectual and political leaders want to create a mixed
society that would completely change the continent’s cultural and ethnic
identity, and Christian nature, within just a few generations,” he continued.
“Hungary,
however, is doing the opposite of what Europe is currently doing. We are doing
what we must do according to local Christian leaders, and which is currently
most important for the communities they lead: we are providing assistance to
enable people to move back to their homes.”
Prime
Minister Orbán also alluded to “the persecution of Christians in Europe, which
is a persecution of a spiritual nature, operat[ing] using subtle and crafty
methods, and is undoubtedly unjust, discriminative and sometimes painful”, but
added that, in his view, “it can in no way be compared to the brutal and
physical persecution suffered by Christians in Africa and the Middle East”.
He
warned, however, “that the greatest danger threatening us today is the
indifferent silence of the European elite who are renouncing their Christian
roots, despite the fact that the fate of Middle Eastern Christians should wake
Europe up to the fact that, no matter how unbelievable it may still seem, what
happened there could also happen to us”.
“It
is a fact that Christianity is the most persecuted religion in the world today,
in view of the fact that 215 million Christians in 108 countries are currently
suffering from various forms of persecution, four out of every five people who
are being oppressed because of their faith are Christians, and in 2015 in Iraq,
a Christian was murdered every five minutes because of their religious
beliefs,” he emphasised.
“To
us, Europe is a Christian continent and we would like to keep it that way, and
although we may not be able to preserve all of it, we would at least like to
save the little slice of it that the Good Lord entrusted to the Hungarians.”
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