A church in Budapest said on Thursday it had cancelled a controversial mass and memorial for Hungary's Nazi-allied wartime leader Miklos Horthy which had been scheduled for International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

"It didn't enter our heads when we began organizing that it fell on that date," Zoltan Osztie, parish priest at the church, and leader of the event organizers the Association of Christian Professionals (KESZ), told a religious affairs website, as quoted by AFP.


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