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The law on the Hungary Helps Program has changed as of January 1, allowing Hungary not only to provide humanitarian aid, but also to help with economic development and peace-building in the future, the Secretary of State at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade announced on Wednesday.
This will make Hungary’s role even stronger, as the country will be able to better assert Christian solidarity and the principle to bring help to where the trouble is, Tristan Azbej said, stressing that it is a human duty to provide life-saving assistance to the persecuted.
Christianity is now the most persecuted religion in the world, with some 5,000 people killed every year for following Christ. He added that
the majority of attacks, around 80 percent, take place in Nigeria.”
Over Christmas in the African country, “…jihadist, Islamist herdsmen tribes” attacked 20 Christian settlements and massacred around 200 Christians. “The footage shows that the attacks were deliberately timed to coincide with Christmas church services and were motivated by jihadist Islamism,” said Azbej.
He also pointed out that the events were poorly reported in the Western press and were portrayed as attacks by herdsmen on farming villages. There is no mention of reports that jihadist tribes armed and trained by the Islamist terrorist organization Al-Qaeda may be behind the attack on Christian people and communities, he said.
It is important to break the indifference, the silence, the denial, and to say that this is a persecution of Christians,”
the State Secretary stressed.
Islamist terrorism has already emerged in Europe, Azbej pointed out, adding that there were reports of planned attacks in Germany, but the authorities were able to prevent them from being carried out. He recalled that in Spain this spring, an Islamist bomber attacked a Catholic church, killing a sacristan and seriously wounding a priest.
Speaking on Kossuth Radio’s program Good morning, Hungary!, the state secretary drew attention to the fact that attacks against Christians multiply during Christian holidays. In his opinion, one of the reasons for this is Islamist anti-Christianity, and the other is the liberal anti-Christian ideology spreading in Western Europe that portrays liberal Christianity as oppressive and persecuting.
Via MTI, Featured image: Facebook/Hungary Helps – Magyarország segít