Orban calls for fight to protect Europe's Christian culture

Europe's peoples should "see and understand that Europe will have no free life without its Christian culture", Prime Minister Viktor Orban said during a state celebration of the anniversary of Hungary's 1848 revolution in front of Budapest's National Museum on Friday. "Unless we protect our Christian culture we will lose Europe and Europe will no longer belong to Europeans," Orban insisted. He added that Christianity was equally important for a free Hungary and warned that "all of us would lose our freedom in a liberal empire". "Nobody can be free if they are subjects of an empire rather than children of a free nation". "Europeans can only be happy if they can decide on their own fate and on the future of their nation", Orban added. The ideal of freedom "is rooted in Christianity because all people and all nations are equal before God," the prime minister said.