This is how Hungary stands for Godly values and helps persecuted Christians around the world

During an interview in Washington, Tristan Azbej, State Secretary for the Aid of Persecuted Christians talks about the national dedication to keep not only Biblical principles inside Hungary but also helping persecuted Christians.

“Hungary is a Christian nation,” Azbej  said. “We are trying to implement the social teachings of the Christian faith and the Bible in our policies and part of that is the protection of human dignity, human freedom, but also part of that is the protection of the sanctity of family and marriage,” he added.

Azbej’s position in the Hungarian government is designed to help persecuted Christians around the world through a program called “Hungary Helps.”

“Christians are the most persecuted religious group in the world. There are 340 million people who are discriminated or threatened or suffering genocidal attacks because of their faith in Christ,” Azbej explains.

According to reports, Hungary has played a significant role to keep and spread faith. It has supported a quarter-million persecuted Christians, helped reconstruct 67 churches in Lebanon, and also rebuilt the Christian town of Telskuf in Iraq after it was decimated by ISIS in just 4 years.

“900 buildings were damaged. The church there was used for target practice by the jihadis,” he explains.

Out of the 1300 Christian families who fled that place, 1,000 have returned and now lovingly refer to their village as the “Daughter of Hungary.” Azbej and his team travel to persecuted countries and help. “They are truly shocked in the good sense that there is someone in the world who is actually caring about their faith.”

In the interview that took place at the International Religious Freedom Summit held in Washington this summer, Azbej shared about the hopes he has for more governments also join Hungary’s lead to help the persecuted.

“What we want to achieve is next to the town that is called now ‘Daughter of Hungary.’ I wish that there was a ‘son of the US,’” he said.

This summer Hungary’s parliament, the National Assembly, passed a law to protect children from exposure to inappropriate sexual content, including homosexual content, and to preserve the rights of Hungarian parents to retain sole control over their children’s sexual education.

And although these actions were scrutinized by the European Union and LGBT activists saying that it discriminates against LGBT people, Azbej’s nation’s constitution, adopted in 2011, is in line with Christian teachings.

“We have confirmed in our constitution that the marriage is between one man and one woman, that life has to be protected from conception.”

Hungary recently amended it to confirm a mother is a woman and a father is a man. “This seems to be a strange thing that this is needed to be put in a constitution,” he says.

In relation to the job Azbej is doing, he says ”I have been meeting with true heroes of faith in the persecuted Christian communities and I have gained such a strength from their testimonies, from their faith even despite all the threats and the humiliation they are facing that also it was a true faith experience for me.”

“So maybe it’s not us western Christians supporting the persecuted brothers and sisters in the Middle East and Africa – they are supporting us. They have a message to keep our faith, to keep our identity in Christ,” he continues.

“In our department, we never had any motivational problems because all my colleagues are fully understanding the importance of this mission,” he adds.

Source: CBN News