The grants provided from the Hungarian government’s Hungary Helps Programme gives Assyrian Christians in Iraq hope for a new start, the Minister of State for helping persecuted Christians and the implementation of the Hungary Helps Programme at the Prime Minister’s Office said on Wednesday, giving the Hungarian news agency MTI an interview by telephone about his visit to Iraqi Kurdistan. As part of the visit, he attended, inter alia, the inauguration of Saint George’s Church coming under the authority of the Assyrian Church of the East which was built with the assistance of the programme.
Christianity is the most persecuted religion, but Hungary stands up for persecuted Christians, Tristan Azbej, Minister of State of the Prime Minister’s Office said at an event attended by Nigerian Christian church leaders.
The government decree laying down the details of the village family housing allowance ‘csok’ has been published in Magyar Közlöny (Hungarian Gazette), the government commissioner for the development of modern settlements announced at his press conference held on Monday in Budapest.
The Hungarian Kolping Association has collected and offered ten million forints to build a Kolping house to help children and families in the civil war-ravaged city of Aleppo, in Syria. The donation was received on Saturday in Budapest by State Secretary for the Aid of Persecuted Christians and the Realisation of the Hungary Helps Program Tristán Azbej.
The government believes its most important task is to cater for survival and growth, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office stated on Sunday in Budapest, at the foundation stone laying ceremony of the community centre of the Istenhegy St. Ladislaus Parish Church to be built from funding provided by the Prime Minister’s Office.
Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely arrived for an official visit to Hungary and was received by Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén in the Carmelite building of the Prime Minister’s Office in Budapest on Monday.
The Hungary Helps Programme, which coordinates the Hungarian government’s humanitarian efforts in crisis regions, is recognised in North Rhine-Westphalia, Tristan Azbej, Minister of State of the Prime Minister’s Office for Helping Persecuted Christians said on Tuesday assessing his visit to the most populous state of Germany.
The Hungarian government is making a contribution worth almost HUF 160 million to the preparations for the papal mass to be held in Csíksomlyó on the first of June, Miklós Soltész, Minister of State for Church and Nationality Relations at the Prime Minister’s Office said on Monday in Csíksomlyó.
Europe fails to correctly recognise its own best interests regarding Turkey, Gergely Gulyás, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office told the Hungarian news agency MTI by telephone on Monday after he attended a roundtable discussion about the protection of the European Union’s external borders, migration and asylum of the 12th Istanbul Security Conference.
Deputy State Secretary for the Coordination of EU Policies Pál Schmitt had talks in Riga with Latvian government officials and Members of Parliament about cooperation opportunities in the European Union.