Supporting Christians in the Holy Land Is a National Mission, Says State Secretary [Video]

The national mission to support Christians and Christian sites in the Holy Land has accompanied the millennial history of the Hungarian statehood, the Secretary of State of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, responsible for programs to help persecuted Christians, told M1 news channel on Tuesday.

Tristan Azbej said this in connection with the Hungary Helps Program, which, with the support of the Hungarian government, has built the first Roman Catholic church and shrine on the banks of the Jordan River, on the Jordanian side, on the site of the baptism of Jesus Christ, and inaugurated the community hall of the monastery in the Old City of Jerusalem.

The Secretary of State recalled that last week he held bilateral talks on the situation in the Middle East with Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State of the Holy See, and Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem. It was discussed …