– Hungarians can only remain as Christians and each new church represents a bastion in the struggle for the freedom and greatness of the nation – Hugarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Sunday at the consecration of the Reformed Church of Cohesion in Pesterzsébet.

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In his welcome address at the ceremonial service, the Prime Minister said “we Hungarians have been a church-building nation for a thousand years,” and at the time of St. Stephen, many besides ourselves could say the same about themselves. In his view, we are living in different times now, however. There are ever fewer, rather than more church-building nations in Europe. 

He took the view that today Western Europe is “in a phase of losing its cultural and civilisational ground and balance,” the great historical role and mission that Christian European civilisation fulfilled in the past five hundred years is withering and slowly evaporating. It has abandoned its mission awareness, its cultural and spiritual heritage, it has simply thrown its future away.

“At times like this, I remember how many wanted to integrate us and how many times into a world where churches are built no longer, only mosques,” he observed.

(JAP, Source: Cabinet Office Of The Prime Minister/MTI)