BUDAPEST — As Pope Francis gears up to visit Hungary for the second time in less than two years on Friday, he is being awaited by the country's Catholics and its nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Yet, the self-styled 'defender of Christian Europe' has frequently diverged from the pope's messages — on topics from migration to LGBTQ rights — in a bid to reintroduce religion in the largely secular nation while trumpeting his political agenda. 'Such indoctrination has little to do with true Christianity,' theology professor Rita Perintfalvi of the Austrian University of Graz told AFP.

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