Hungarian minister: This is the age of dangers

“There is a growing need for Christian faith and values and it is especially important that we should protect them among all circumstances and pass on to posterity,” the Hungarian justice minister said in Téglás, in north-eastern Hungary, on Sunday.

Judit Varga attended the consecration ceremony of the Greek Catholic church after renovation in the town, and said in her address that “we live in an age of dangers” not only including the war in a neighbouring country but “the European Union building a Europe rejecting traditional European values”.

“But we believe that Europe is supported by its Jewish-Christian roots,” she said, adding that Europe’s “building stones” were Christian communities, families, nations, and the traditional churches.

Referring to the war in Ukraine as the “greatest, most difficult and acute problem” for the eastern part of Europe, she said the Hungarian government had advocated a pro-peace position since the beginning of the conflict. “Any bloodshed is pointless and disputed issues must be settled at the negotiating table,” she said. The government takes responsibility for Ukraine’s 150,000-strong ethnic Hungarian minority, who would be “directly jeopardised if Hungary allowed the transit of weapons deliveries through its territory into Ukraine.