Whither Hungary?
In the wake of Orbán’s electoral defeat, Hungary’s long-standing role as a defiant stronghold of national sovereignty, Christian family values, and cultural preservation hangs in the balance.
In the wake of Orbán’s electoral defeat, Hungary’s long-standing role as a defiant stronghold of national sovereignty, Christian family values, and cultural preservation hangs in the balance.
For many conservative Catholics, Viktor Orbán’s Hungary has stood out as the last bastion of Christian Europe, but their voting record at the UN tells a different story.
On Holy Saturday, 1921, leaving his exile in the Swiss Alps, King Charles IV of Hungary discreetly entered Budapest by way of Szombathely with a falsified Spanish passport. He had come to reclaim his throne. The regent, Admiral Miklós Horthy, had sworn fealty to the Habsburg king three years before at Schönbrunn Palace. Now, under … Read more
Just a day after the second World Conference on Persecuted Christians ended this November in Budapest, Hungary, a “reformed” jihadi terrorist stabbed two innocent people to death in London, before being shot by police. The inability of the liberal secularists, who are at the center of most Western governmental policies and who control most of … Read more
At the end of the Second World War, the revered crown of St. Stephen, the first Christian monarch of Hungary, was smuggled out of Austria by the U.S. Army to prevent its falling into Soviet hands. It remained at Fort Knox in the United States until it was handed over to the communist government of … Read more