More than three thousand churches have been renovated together with the churches, and more than two hundred have been built in the Carpathian basin in recent years, reported Miklós Soltész, the State Secretary of the Prime Minister's Office responsible for church and ethnic relations, on Saturday in Szolnok, at the ceremonial inauguration of the renovated Belváros Szentháromság church.
Miklós Soltész spoke about how this is their answer to the world's current aspirations, which are coming from Northern and Western Europe and North America. He talked about the fact that many things had to be fought against: the epidemic, migration from the south. Furthermore, against ideologies that destroy the values of Judeo-Christian teachings and the "created world" and want to capture the souls of young people, and now "here is this war", he listed. According to Miklós Soltész, the message of the renovation of the churches: the preservation of Hungarianness and the passing on of Christianity, because both are values.
"We are not destroying churches and turning them into sports halls, pubs, amusement parks, and Muslim mosques," he said.
In Hungary, in the last ten or twelve years, the practice has instead been construction and renovation. In Szolnok, four churches and a synagogue were renovated, and parishes and community centers were built with more than HUF 2.1 billion over the past years, he said.
He also touched on the Child Protection Act and asked those present to "cross the four genders" on April 3 so that children under the age of 18 are protected against a "nature-destroying" ideology.
He said about the war going on in Ukraine: if it is possible - and indeed it is possible - then the Hungarians will not use or send weapons.
"We do not send our fathers, our children, our young people to war".
"We want peace and peace must be created," he said. He emphasized: the Hungarians living in the Subcarpathian areas must be protected. He touched on the fact that ever since the leader of the opposition called Transcarpathian Hungarians "pro-Russian and pro-Putin". Hungarians there are exposed to reprisals and life-threatening threats by Ukrainian nationalists. He added: the majority of Ukrainian people are kind, hard-working, deeply religious people, but there is a layer that "always hates other nations." It is necessary to say no to this, and not to bully the nationalists, he pointed out. He also encouraged those present to help those in need.
Source: MTI
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