HLI Encourages Hungarians to Stand Firm in Defense of Family

World's largest international pro-life, pro-family organization denounces EU "blackmail" of financially struggling nation

Contact: Stephen Phelan, Human Life International, 540-622-5270, SPhelan@hli.org

FRONT ROYAL, Va., Jan. 11, 2012 /Christian Newswire/ -- Father Shenan J. Boquet, president of Human Life International, today called on Hungary's political leadership to stand strong against threats by the European Union to withhold financial aid if certain conditions were not met. The conditions, as reported by the Hungarian daily Magyar Nemzet, were that the state must drop charges of corruption against its socialist former president, and it must drop a section in its new constitution which defines marriage as being between a man and a woman. (See the story in Bloomberg here, WSJ here and the original story in Hungarian here.)