Péter Szijjarto, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, said the Hungarian government will provide help to the Christian community of Nicaragua in view of the “atrocities” they have recently suffered.
The foreign minister had a phone conversation with Archbishop Richard Gallagher, the Vatican’s Secretary for Relations with States, following news reports that Nicaragua’s government had taken measures hindering the activities of the Jesuit community and had shut down the largest Catholic university in the country. He said he told Gallagher that the Hungarian government was ready to give scholarships to students who studied at the closed-down university and would consult about aiding Jesuit monks who were in a difficult situation. The foreign minister said he would initiate talks with his Nicaraguan counterpart on the sidelines of the upcoming United Nations general assembly meeting and urge that Nicaragua should drop measures against its Catholic community.