On Tuesday morning in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his wife Anikó Lévai paid their last respects at the bier of retired Pope Benedict XVI who died on Saturday, Bertalan Havasi, the head of the Press Office of the Prime Minister informed the Hungarian news agency MTI.

Mr Orbán and Mrs Lévai said a prayer for Benedict XVI and the community of mourning Christian believers, the press chief added.