Victor Orbán claims to run a ‘Christian’ government, but one of his former allies has denounced his ‘hate-filled’ regime
On the wall of Pastor Gábor Iványi’s study, in the heart of one of Budapest’s poorest districts, a painting depicts Moses in the wilderness, gazing towards the promised land. A gift from an American visitor, it portrays Moses as a rugged Israelite matinee idol; a Charlton Heston in the desert. It is, Iványi smiles, “a bit kitsch”.
Iványi himself has the look of an Old Testament prophet, dressed in black and sporting a splendid biblical white beard. But there is nothing kitsch about him. The president of the Hungarian Evangelical Fellowship – a small Methodist offshoot which played a heroic part in the anti-communist struggles of the 1970s and 80s – Iványi is a well-known figure in Hungary’s religious landscape. Now approaching 70, he is also a controversial one.
On the first Sunday of December, together with other pastors from his church and a few like minds from different denominations, Iványi published an extraordinary and furious text.
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