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MoJ Varga in Brussels: Finnish EU budget proposal unacceptable to Hungary

This won't fly.

Homecoming: Remember that argument about how Hungarians are emigrating in masses?

Our fellow Hungarians are finally coming home.

Ministerpräsident Orbán: Der Fidesz-KDNP ist nach wie vor die stärkste politische Kraft in Ungarn

Neben einer hohen Wahlbeteiligung von 48,45 Prozent erzielte das Fidesz-KDNP-Bündnis von Premierminister Orbán am Sonntag bei den Kommunalwahlen 2019 in Ungarn einen weiteren Sieg von über 50 Prozent.

Three key takeaways from yesterday’s local elections

Yes, opposition parties prevailed in Budapest, which will now have a new mayor, but there’s a lot more to the story than the capital.

PM Orbán: Fidesz-KDNP still strongest political force in Hungary

With the majority of the votes, Fidesz-KDNP has won a sweeping victory.

Local Elections 2019 - LIVE coverage

Follow the latest news about Hungary's local elections 2019!

PM Orbán: Hungary-US cooperation “a story of success”

Some 1,700 US companies employ more than 106 thousand Hungarians.

Hungary Helps

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Hungary helps Yazidi genocide survivors

Sep 17, 2019 - Tristan Azbej

As state secretary responsible for the Hungary Helps Program, I was pleased to announce recently a new, joint project with the Hungarian Ecumenical Charity that offers assistance to the Yazidi community that was subjected to genocide during the reign of the Islamic State.

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Hungary Helps builds school in Iraq

Sep 06, 2019

The construction of a school in Mosul, in the independent Kurdish region of Iraq, is underway thanks to the Hungarian government and the Hungary Helps scheme.

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Hungary Helps Agency signs cooperation pact with Ecumenical Charity

Aug 29, 2019

Tristan Azbej, the state secretary in charge of helping persecuted Christians, said the government will launch two joint support programs with the Ecumenical Charity, which it considered a strategic ally.

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Ein humanitäres Hilfsprogramm, um sie vor der langen und gefährlichen Misere des Migranten zu bewahren

Jul 10, 2019 - Zoltán Kovács

So hilft Ungarn den Afrikanern, in ihrem Heimatland Stabilität und Sicherheit zu finden, und dadurch dem Schicksal eines Flüchtlings zu entkommen.

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A humanitarian assistance program to save them from the long and dangerous plight of the migrant

Jul 06, 2019 - Tristan Azbej

This is how Hungary helps Africans find stability and security at home to avoid becoming refugees.

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Hungary Helps provides further assistance to rebuild Syria

May 29, 2019

The Hungarian government fundamentally believes that help must be taken where there is trouble, rather than bringing problems to Europe.

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Hungary Helps program builds church in Iraq

May 16, 2019

Tristan Azbej, state secretary in charge of the Hungary Helps program, attended the inauguration of the church built in Iraqi Kurdistan with assistance from the Hungarian government’s scheme

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Hungarian Kolping Association raises 30,000 euros to help the people of Aleppo

May 06, 2019

The Hungary Helps program is proving a highly successful government initiative to aid persecuted Christians around the world

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Hungary offers Sri Lanka HUF 9 million emergency aid

Apr 23, 2019

In the wake of a string of terrorist attacks against Christians in Sri Lanka, Hungary has offered HUF 9 million in emergency aid

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PM's office sets up Hungary Helps Agency

Apr 19, 2019

Hungary Helps is aimed at aiding Christian communities experiencing persecution around the world and was set up in 2017. The scheme has so far disbursed aid of 8 billion HUF (25m EUR) to 35,000 Christians making a living in their homelands

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Hungary seeks to support Ethiopian refugee efforts through its Hungary Helps program

Feb 28, 2019

Hungary's House Speaker voiced his appreciation for Ethiopia’s support for nearly one million refugees in the country and praised the nation for its cooperation with Hungary

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PM Orbán offers Hungarian government’s financial support to persecuted Christians in order to help them return home

Oct 10, 2018

PM Orbán said help needs to be taken where it is needed instead of importing trouble to Europe

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FM urges UN to provide “legal and security guarantees” to ensure that persecuted Christians could “return to their homelands"

Sep 24, 2018

Péter Szijjártó, minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, said that Christianity “has become the most persecuted religion in the world"

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An Iraqi town has been renamed “Hungary’s daughter” after receiving funds from the government for renovations

Aug 29, 2018

The Iraqi town - inhabited by a Christian community and destroyed by the Islamic State terrorist organization in 2014 - was rebuilt using a donation of 2 million euros from the Hungarian government

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Hungarian doctors set for humanitarian aid trip to Bangladesh

Jul 03, 2018

A team of Hungarian doctors are preparing for a humanitarian aid trip to Bangladesh next Monday to work as volunteers in a refugee camp holding around 1.3 million people, mostly Rohingya refugees

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Hungary has been helping persecuted Middle East Christians return home, reveals foreign minister

May 15, 2018

Péter Szijjártó, minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, told a conference focusing on the victims of ethnic and religious conflicts in Brussels that Hungary’s policies will help persecuted Christians return to their homelands in the Middle East

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Hungary donates 5 million euros towards building a hospital in Syria

Apr 26, 2018

Hungary Helps has provided 3.6 billion HUF (11.6 million EUR) on programs helping Middle Eastern refugees stay at home and return home

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PM Orbán: Hungary to offer further assistance to persecuted Christians in the Middle East

Dec 22, 2017

Hungary will provide financial support for the reconstruction of a school destroyed in Syrian battles, and will offer scholarship opportunities in Hungary for students from Christian communities

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Hungary Helps to rebuild towns and villages in Nigeria ravaged by Boko Haram

Nov 28, 2017

A Hungarian delegation signed a document of support to rebuild three schools and a hospital on the former territory of Boko Haram in Nigeria

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Hungary’s policy of supporting and aiding persecuted Chritians is the first of its kind in the world

Oct 26, 2017

Hungary’s efforts in aiding persecuted Christians have even been recognized by the Secretary for Relations with States for the Holy See

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PM Orbán: "Hungary is helping persecuted Christians to return home”

Oct 13, 2017

“We, Hungarians, want Syrian, Iraqi and Nigerian Christians to be able to return home to the land that their ancestors have inhabited for hundreds of years as soon as possible, this is what we call Hungarian solidarity (…) Hungary helps," the prime minister said

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[VIDEO] The Hungarian face of solidarity, delivering help directly to the people living in crisis regions

Oct 03, 2017 - Zoltán Kovács

The Hungarian government has put forward a unique effort in its global humanitarian initiative, Hungary Helps. It aims to achieve far more than what one would expect from a country of Hungary’s size, focusing particularly on assistance to troubled communities in their homeland, rather than promoting the resettlement to Europe of those in crisis zones.

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Hungary aims to provide refuge to persecuted Christians

Sep 29, 2017

“Today three out of four Christians in the world are persecuted, and the western world knows little about it,” Zoltán Balog, minister of Human Resources, said

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Hungary Helps program receives praise from the Vatican

Aug 28, 2017

Hungary is going beyond its means to provide assistance to persecuted Christians for education, housing, healthcare and other humanitarian needs, in addition to providing hundreds of university scholarships

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Hungary lends Lebanon a hand to help refugees and rebuild Christian churches

Jun 12, 2017

Hungary's foreign minister highlighted how important it was for Europe to maintain Lebanon’s stability, and Hungary would double the 400 million EUR allocated to Lebanon for refugee services under an agreement with the EU in order to help economic development

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Hungary launches scholarship program to help persecuted Christians in the Middle East

Jun 06, 2017

Christian students will cooperate with local religious leaders in promoting the project. The Hungarian state also offers scholarships to several hundred Muslim students

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PM Orbán signs agreement to restore houses of Iraqi Christians in Telskuf

May 31, 2017

The Hungarian government has issued a decree with the aim of helping persecuted Christian families stay in, or return to, their homelands in the Middle East. In total, 580 million HUF (1.9m EUR) has been set aside to restore the houses in Telskuf

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Hungary helps Iraqi Christians with 145 million HUF in pharmaceutical aid

May 30, 2017

The Hungarian government hopes the provision of aid bears the message that “we are aware of the suffering that people living in the Middle East are having to endure, and especially Christians"

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Hungary Helps: 2 million USD to re-build community in Iraq

May 29, 2017 - Zoltán Kovács

The Hungarian government has been a strong advocate for allocating resources to aid and reconstruction efforts in communities impacted by war, rather than importing the problems to Europe. In its global initiative to bring help where it is most needed, the government of Hungary aims to do more than its fair share and has recently allocated 2 million USD toward the reconstruction of a Christian community near Mosul.

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Hungary continues its humanitarian aid efforts to help persecuted Christians

May 25, 2017

The Hungarian government has allocated 1.9 million EUR to rebuild 200 Christian homes in Iraq, 470,000 EUR to buy medical supplies for a hospital, 400,000 EUR to build a Christian school, and 500,000 EUR to provide humanitarian aid. The Syrian Catholic and Orthodox churches will receive 1 million EUR each