State Secretary: Austria hails results of Hungary Helps as “exemplary”
Austria at the start of the year established a special government unit within the Chancellery to help persecuted Christian minorities.
Austria at the start of the year established a special government unit within the Chancellery to help persecuted Christian minorities.
Tristan Azbej said migration may be prevented through aid provided where the problems arise.
Tristan Azbej said Hungary follows the principle that the help offered is based on direct personal relations, and the office will seek to assess the demands of the people who...
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán hosted Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, to discuss supporting Christians in troubled areas.
“The amendment allows Hungary to strengthen its role and better enforce solidarity with Christian communities as well as to represent the concept that help must be provided where the problems are,” Tristan Azbej said.
The Hungarian humanitarian mission in Chad seeks to find ways for Hungary to contribute to the country’s stability and prevent the humanitarian crisis there from escalating into a disaster.
The plants inaugurated in the cities of Takoradi and Tamale were designed and built by Hungary’s Pureco-Unit Consortium together with its Ghanaian partners.
Hungary has provided 3,000 US dollars in emergency humanitarian assistance to the Nigerian Catholic Church.
Polish Education Minister Przemysław Czarnek thanked Hungary for its contributions to the program.
The government’s Hungary Helps program has spent some 80 million dollars on reconstructing schools and hospitals and on economic support enabling locals to stay in their homeland.
HUF 4 million (EUR 10,700) worth of supplies has been sent to the earthquake-hit area around the town of Ljubinje in the southeast of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Hungary and Brazil agreed on the need to help those in need in their homeland rather than encouraging migration, and to support Christians, “the most persecuted religious community in the world”.
State Secretary Tristan Azbej said the program not only helped persecuted people stay in their homeland, but “sometimes it was successful in reversing migration”.