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Daily News Daily News · 19/05/2015
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Orban welcomes new archeparchy in eastern Hungary

Budapest (MTI) – The newly founded Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Hajdudorog will be a new stronghold for Christianity in Hungary, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said after signing an agreement with Metropolitan Fulop Kocsis in Debrecen, in eastern Hungary, on Monday.

This is important for Hungary, a country which, unlike Europe, has included in its basic law the “retaining power of Christianity,” Orban said.

The prime minister said Christianity “complete with all its branches and denominations” was inseparable from Hungarian history and that it was not geographic location that made Hungarians Europeans. “We are Europeans because we are Christians,” he said, adding that a strong and successful Hungary can only be built on these national, Christian and civic traditions.

Orban said history made it clear that Hungary was strong only in times when the state saw the church as an ally and not as an enemy.

Kocsis said the municipality of Debrecen provided use of the premises at two facilities free of charge to the archeparchy and the government had provided 2.3 billion forints for upgrading the real estate and establishing the organisation of the new archeparchy.

The prime minister said the government funding allowed the Greek Catholic Church, the Vatican and Hungary to maintain good relations and deepen their ties, and strengthened the national and European identity of Hungarians.

The diocese of Hajdudorog was elevated to archeparchy under a decision by Pope Francis in March this year.

According to the 2011 census, 179,000 citizens of Hungary declared themselves as Greek Catholics. Most members of the community live in the north-eastern region.

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Source: http://mtva.hu/hu/hungary-matters

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  1. A Christian Nationalist Response to the Current European Migrant Crisis at Faith and Heritage says:
    04/09/2015 at 18:21

    […] French nationalist leader Marine Le Pen is certainly right in identifying that Western military intervention in the Middle East and North Africa, supported by both leftist and neoconservative governments, has destabilized these regions. Our godless governments’ support of unjust wars is certainly catching up to us in more ways than one. This is one of the sins of the West – handing over the political power in our own countries to Zionists, who base their entire foreign policy on supporting and expanding the power of the state of Israel. In fact, it may well be that the US/NATO-led destabilization of Libya in overthrowing the Gaddafi regime did it, in part, to open the floodgates from North Africa into Europe. Ironically, however, one of the countries that is least guilty of Middle Eastern and Central/North African destabilization, Hungary, is currently suffering the most under this foreign invasion. Furthermore, Hungary is also one of the few remaining European nations that can still in many regards be legitimately classified as Christian. […]

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