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Hungarian government contributes EUR 145,000 for refurbishing Syriac Orthodox Monastery
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Tristan Azbej, the state secretary for aiding persecuted Christians and the head of the Hungary Helps programme, on Monday noted that the Hungarian government has contributed 60 million forints (EUR 145,000) to the refurbishment of the Syriac Orthodox Monastery of Saint Mark.
Refurbishing Syriac Orthodox Monastery
“This monastery is the Monastery of Saint Mark, built above the house of Saint Mark the Evangelist, which was the location of the Last Supper and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost,” Azbej said on Facebook.
By supporting the refurbishment of this community space, the Hungarian government expressed its commitment to the community of Christians in the Holy Land who are in a difficult situation and contributed to the long-term survival of strong Christian communities in the place where Jesus lived his life, the state secretary said.
Speaking on public broadcaster M1, Azbej said supporting Christians and Christian shrines in the Holy land was “a national mission inherent in the thousand years of Hungary’s statehood”. Azbej noted talks with Cardinal Pietro Parolin, secretary of state of the Holy See, and Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, saying they were in agreement that conflicts in the Middle East had resulted in dwindling revenues from religious tourism, the sole revenue source to Christian communities in the area. That, in turn, was leading to more Christians leaving their homeland, he added.
What a disgusting waste of money. Spend that money instead on food for the poor to eat. If you are a REAL Christian that is what your priority would be and not refurbishing a shrine in a foreign country. This was a 145,000 euro propaganda exercise. Let someone with deeper pockets like Meszaros fund it with some of the money he stole.