Austria: An increasing number of students attend Orthodox Religious Education

Source: Basilica News Agency

July 10, 2019

    

In the school year 2018/19, there were around 13,600 students at almost 1,000 locations. A year before (2017/18), there were 12,682 students at 912 locations.

By comparison, in 2012/13, only 10,003 students attended Orthodox Religion classes, while 15 years ago there were about 5,000 students.

...Read the rest at  Basilica News Agency.

Aurelian Iftimiu

7/10/2019

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