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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