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It also has parish halls, bishops' residences, administrative buildings,
printing works, workshops for various religious articles, buildings for
collections of religious objets d'art, etc.
"As far as the Roman Catholic Church is concerneda it has at
present 1,151 churches, together with parish halls, bishops' residences,
administrative buildings and schools for training people for the Church.
Over the past 15 years 30 new Catholic churches have been built.
Religious services are conducted in the congregation's mother tongue.
"As regards other denominations, the situation is as follows:
Reformed Church - 953 churches
Evangelical Church of the Augustan Confession - 275 churches
Synodo-Presbyterian Evangelical Church - 46 churches
Unitarian Church - 140 churches
Old-Christian Church - 59 churches
Armenian-Gregorian Church - 15 churches
"The four Protestant denominations train their clergy at the one
Protestant theological college in Cluj-Napoca, which has three sections
(Reformed, Presbyterian Evangelical and Unitarian), while clergy for the
Evangelical Church of the Augustan Confession are trained at Sibiu.
"(a) The Pentecostal Church has 796 chapels and a theological
seminary;
"(b) The Baptist Church has 951 chapels and a theological seminary;
"(c) The Seventh-Day Adventist Church has 521 chapels and a
theological seminary;
"(d) The Christian Gospel Church has 380 chapels;
"(e) The Islamic faith has 82 mosques;
"(f) The Jewish faith has 118 synagogues. It also has homes for
the elderly, kosher canteens and restaurants and its own system of social
security.
"All the denominations publish a great number of religious books and
magazines every year= Between 1981 and 1987, they published 516 titles
in 1,834,000 copies. Every year they print 3.7 million religious
calendars. There are 19 religious monthlies, bi-monthlies and quarterlies
published in 84,450 copies.
"All denominations have prayer books available in the congregation's
mother tongue.