International conference on Christian persecution held in Budapest

While Europe — based on the “Soros plan” — is pushing a migration policy which lets “radical Islam” into the European Union, Hungary believes in providing help at the point where it is needed rather than “bringing trouble over here”, the prime minister told an international conference on Thursday. 

Hungary is helping persecuted Christians return to their homelands, Viktor Orbán said in his opening address to the conference focusing on the persecution of Christians.

“We Hungarians want Syrian, Iraqi and Nigerian Christians to be able to return to the land their ancestors had occupied for thousands of years,” Orbán said. “This is Hungarian solidarity or the way ‘Hungary Helps’,” the prime minister said, referring to the Hungarian government’s recently launched humanitarian assistance programme.

Orbán said that

Europe’s liberal elite wanted to create a mixed society “in the spirit of the Soros plan” which he said would completely alter the continent’s cultural and ethnic composition within a few generations.

Meanwhile, Hungarians are doing “the exact opposite of what Europe is currently doing”, he said.

“We are doing what local Christian leaders say we should be doing; what the communities they lead value the most today: helping them return to their homelands,” Orbán said. The best way to do this is to send resources directly to the churches of persecuted Christians, he said.

Orbán also touched on what he called “the European persecution of Christians” which he said was “of an intellectual nature”, employing “sophisticated and refined methods” but was “bearable, despite being undoubtedly unfair, discriminative and at times painful…” It however cannot be compared to “the brutal and physical persecution” Christians in Africa and the Middle East face, he added.

“The greatest threat we face today is the apathetic silence of the European elite that rejects its Christian roots,” Orbán said.

“But the fate of Christians in the Middle East should remind Europe that what has happened over there can also happen to us, however inconceivable it may seem,” he added.

Orbán called Christianity the most persecuted religion throughout the world, arguing that some 215 million Christians in 108 countries face some form of persecution for their faiths. Four out of five people persecuted for their beliefs today are Christians, he said, adding that in Iraq in 2015, one Christian was killed because of their faith every five minutes.