Four Covid patients died over the past 24 hours of a Covid-related illness, while 130 new coronavirus infections were registered, koronavirus.gov.hu said. So far 5,821,254 people have received a first jab, while 5,524,203 have been fully vaccinated.
The persecution of Christians is today’s humanitarian crisis, Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén said opening an exhibition on the persecution of Christians in warzones at the Hungarian National Museum in Budapest.
“The West is not aware of the fears and difficulties that Christians are facing” in the Middle East, Cardinal Luis Raphael Sako, the Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church, said in his address to the International Eucharistic Congress.
Hungary aims to be climate neutral by 2050, and the government is examining ways to reduce carbon emissions to the level that Hungarian forests can absorb by that time, the state secretary for climate, energy policy and the development of the circular economy said.
Hungary and Poland are closely cooperating in preventing some western European states from imposing on the European Union the “flawed and dangerous” migration policy whose consequences have been felt since 2015, Péter Szijjártó, Hungary’s foreign minister, said after talks with his Polish counterpart Zbigniew Rau in Karpacz, Poland.
“There is no strong nation without strong external borders,” Justice Minister Judit Varga said, after meeting Jeff Sessions, the former US Attorney General. In her English-language post, Varga wrote that the former Alabama senator had played “a key role in shaping the Trump administration’s immigration policy” and had been “an advocate for reform of US […]
According to holtankoljak.hu, fuel prices are about to rise on Wednesday (8th September).
Iván Vitányi, a founder of the Hungarian Socialist Party and honorary president of the Democratic Coalition (DK) has died, aged 96, DK told MTI in a statement.
Nine Covid patients died over the weekend, while 648 new coronavirus infections were registered, koronavirus.gov.hu said.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has wished a “happy and sweet” new year to Hungary’s Jewish community, the PM’s press chief said.
