Le Monde: PM Orbán’s son to evangelise 18-30-year-old intellectuals?
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This is not an easy task in secularised Hungary, but according to the French daily, Gáspár Orbán inherited the rhetoric skills of his father.
A European movement for evangelisation?
According to 24.hu, Le Monde wrote about PM Orbán’s only son, Gáspár Orbán. Their Budapest correspondent starts with the fact that it was not only the PM who gave a speech on March 15 in Budapest, but his son also addressed his followers in the so-called Spike Hall (Tüskecsarnok). The former midfielder of Felcsút and Videoton FC was a preacher of his own Pentecostal church-like organisation called Felház which actually ended its activity after March 15. Now, they would like to continue the mission within the framework of a movement.
Gáspár Orbán was raised in Calvinist faith and, after quitting his professional football career in 2014, he travelled to Uganda to teach football to the locals. According to him, he met the real power of God there, and
he totally devoted himself to Jesus Christ afterwards.
As a result, he founded his own Pentecostal church-like organisation together with two of his friends. Their goal was to evangelise 18-30-year-old Hungarian intellectuals who speak foreign languages, have a degree and are open to the world.
According to the correspondent of Le Monde, Gáspár Orbán’s speech in the Spike Hall was very persuasive, and it was preceded and followed by Christian rock bands. The whole event was like an American show with spectacular lighting effects. Orban Junior highlighted that ‘we all have to praise God even on March 15’ which is a national holiday in Hungary celebrating the revolution of 1848.
“My father helps me a lot, but I am not sure that he understands what I am doing”
– he added.