Pastor Gabor Ivanyi presided at Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s wedding. He also baptized Orban’s children. But Ivanyi has been singled out by Orban’s government and deprived of state financial support. Ivanyi says “it’s a miracle” that his church is still surviving. The World’s Orla Barry traveled to Hungary’s capital Budapest to meet Pastor Ivanyi.
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