BUDAPEST, Hungary — Metropolitan Hilarion, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church’s department for external affairs, believes Europe must defend its Christian roots and change its immigration policies or “face annihilation.”
Speaking to the Register Oct. 12 at a conference for persecuted Christians in Budapest, Hungary, the Russian Orthodox leader warned that if Europe “officially denies Christ and Christianity, in a few generations there will be other people living in Europe professing other faiths.”
He congratulated the Hungarian government for the attention it is giving to persecuted Christians, and also praised its Prime Minister, Victor Orban, for urging Western nations to put aside “political correctness” and draw attention to concrete problems.