House Speaker László Kövér said Christianity has kept Europe alive for two thousand years, while the denial of Christianity and anti-Christianity are killing it.
“Christianity was the cultural and political cradle of Europe’s nations and states, including Hungarians, Germans and Romanians,” Kövér said in a speech on the opening day of the second Pilgrimage of Burzenland and Transylvanian Saxon Csángó Hungarians. “It follows that the denial of Christianity and anti-Christianity will be a cultural and political coffin for us all,” the speaker, who is the chief patron of the event, added.
Dezső Adorjáni, bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Romania, the pilgrimage’s organiser, said the service was a way for Hungarian Lutherans to give thanks to Lutheran reformer Johannes Honter and remember their centuries-long shared history with the Saxons.