Persecuted Christian community heads welcome Hungary government’s support

Middle Eastern Christian church leaders welcome the Hungarian government’s policy of supporting and aiding persecuted Christian communities in their region, the deputy state secretary for aiding persecuted Christians said on Friday. 

Speaking to MTI after a three-day international conference on the persecution of Christians, Tristan Azbej said the primary aim of the conference was for the leaders of persecuted Christian communities to be able to talk about the situations of their communities, address the conference about the dangers they face and ways they can be helped.

Speakers at the conference also made it clear that Christian communities in the Middle East have an “overwhelming need” for help from the international community in enabling them to return to their homelands, Azbej said.

Around half of the conference’s 300 participants were international guests from 32 different countries. Church leaders present at the conference represented ten different denominations.

Azbej said that Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s message that those facing persecution should be provided help in their homelands rather than “bringing trouble over to Europe” had resonated with the church leaders in attendance.