international conference on inter-religious dialogue in 2011, involving high-ranking
local and international representatives of Christian, Jewish and Muslim communities.
The closing document issued by this conference states that the conference
"considered many questions such as religious diversity and migration and it
confirmed particularly the fundamental importance of religious freedom as an
essential element in the spectrum of universal human rights."
Hungary notes with deep concern that "to manifest religious belief is seriously
restricted in many parts of the world, and that acts of violence against believers,
particularly, at present, against Christian believers, but also ongoing expressions of
islamophobia and anti-Semitism and discrimination against other religions or ethnic
minorities are widespread". Hungary condemns all forms of discrimination or
persecution based on one's religious conviction, in the strongest terms.
Hungary has launched concerted governmental action to combat anti-Semitism,
which has got religious aspects as well. In 2012 we commemorated the 100th
anniversary of the birth of Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat and a Righteous
among the Nations, who saved many thousands of Hungarian Jews during the
holocaust. 2014 is declared to be a Holocaust Memorial Year in Hungary and