Hungarian and Russian Christians plan to launch joint projects to support the education of Christians in Syria, Tristan Azbej, the state secretary responsible for aiding persecuted Christians, said after talks with Archimandrite Philaret, Vice-Chairman of the Foreign Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate.
Azbej said the meeting had been organised as a result of a October 2019 Hungary-Russia summit, where Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Russian President Vladimir Putin decided in the presence of Syrian church leaders that Hungary and Russia would cooperate to aid Syrian Christians.
He added that he had agreed with Archimandrite Philaret on the join preparation of projects. Several schools have been destroyed in the civil war in Syria going back more than a decade, and many teenagers had no chance of receiving any form of education, he said.
“Local churches fulfil a significant social mission, and Hungary, as ever, plans to support the Christian communities in these efforts in cooperation with Russian partners,”
he said.
Azbej said he had received an award from Sergei Stepashin, head of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society and a former prime minister of Russia, and the Middle Cross from Vyacheslav Ostapchuk, head of the Orthodox Russia All-Russia Social Movement. Azbej added that this was in recognition of the Hungarian government and people’s efforts to support persecuted Christians and protect their interests. Stepashin expressed appreciation to Hungary for uniquely supporting the matter at government level, Azbej added.
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Source: MTI
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I approve this much needed cooperation in support of Syrian Christians.
One of the most significant indicators that Russia is not the Soviet Union is that Russians are free to practice their religion. It was forbidden under Soviet rule and many Christians were tortured and murdered for their fate.
The EU is replacing the Soviet Union as an anti-Christian, anti-family dictatorship.
Similar to Soros controlled EU; they also target the children with their perversion. There is no difference between LGBTQ perversion and communist indoctrination.
Well done hungary, soon I will join suits to help them too.
Love one another as I have loved you …. except for LGBTQ, migrants/refugees, gypsies, anyone who dares to not conform to government brainwashing.
It is not the normal society that lumped gays and lesbians with the trans-perverts brutalizing, raping young girls and women in the decadent West. They chose this anti-women association when they added the trans-perverts to LGBTQ.
Girls’ athletic competition is destroyed by burly trans-boys beating up little girls. Schools are especially dangerous for young girls who get raped by trans-boys that get free access to girls’ rest rooms and showers.
Prisons are made especially brutal for women who are locked-up with trans-perverts that rape and abuse them. It happens right now in the decadent West in the name of gender-equality gone crazy. My heart bleeds for America and don’t want it to happen to Hungarian girls and women.
Hungarian laws protect our girls and women and every member of our society.