{"id":244339,"date":"2019-07-09T11:25:08","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T08:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=244339"},"modified":"2019-07-09T11:25:08","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T08:25:08","slug":"austria-an-increasing-number-of-students-attend-orthodox-religious-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/austria-an-increasing-number-of-students-attend-orthodox-religious-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Austria: An increasing number of students attend Orthodox Religious Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In Austria, an increasing number of students are attending Orthodox Religion in school, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.katholisch.de\/aktuelles\/aktuelle-artikel\/osterreich-immer-mehr-schuler-besuchen-orthodoxen-reli-unterricht\">katholisch.de<\/a> reports.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>By comparison, in 2012\/13, only 10,003 students attended Orthodox Religion classes, while 15 years ago there were about 5,000 students.<\/p>\n<p>Orthodox religious education has existed in Austria since 1991. The Orthodox Educational Authority (Orthodoxe Schulamt) was established in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>In Germany, Orthodox religious education is also available in several states, including North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony. In this country, the Orthodox Christians with about two million believers are now the third largest denomination after Catholics and Protestants.<\/p>\n<p>Photography courtesy of Lumina Newspaper<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Austria, an increasing number of students are attending Orthodox Religion in school, katholisch.de reports. 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&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":244035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[20008,2350,10386,20007,3525],"class_list":["post-244339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diaspora-en","tag-austria-en","tag-orthodox-church","tag-orthodox-news","tag-orthodox-religion","tag-religious-education"],"better_featured_image":{"id":244035,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":1200,"height":630,"file":"2019\/07\/ora-de-religie.jpg","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"ora-de-religie-360x360.jpg","width":360,"height":360,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/ora-de-religie-360x360.jpg"},"medium":{"file":"ora-de-religie-890x467.jpg","width":890,"height":467,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/ora-de-religie-890x467.jpg"},"large":{"file":"ora-de-religie-1024x538.jpg","width":1024,"height":538,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/ora-de-religie-1024x538.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","keywords":[]}},"post":244339,"source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/ora-de-religie.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244339\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=244339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244339\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244035\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=244339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=244339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=244339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}