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According to the 2011 census, there are 870,774 Catholics belonging to the Latin Church in Romania, making up 4.33% of the population.The largest ethnic groups are Hungarians (500,444, including Székelys; 41% of the Hungarians), Romanians (297,246 or 1.8%), Germans (21,324 or 59%), and Roma (20,821 or 3.3%), as well as a majority of the country's Slovaks, Bulgarians, Croats, Italians, Czechs ...
Baptist witnesses did not enter Old Romania until the 20th century, and Orthodox opposition was strong. Nevertheless, a church was organized in Jegalia in 1909. An ethnic Romanian church was formed in Bucharest in 1912 by Constantin Adorian (1882–1954), a Romanian who had previously joined the German Baptist church in Bucharest.
Under the influence of foreign Plymouth Brethren missionaries active in Romania in the late 19th century, a group of "free Christians" was founded in Bucharest in 1899. [1] [2] Initially, members were foreign residents of the capital city; they were later joined by Romanian converts. [2]
Christmas in Romania (Romanian: Crăciunul în România) is a major annual celebration, celebrated on 24/25 of December, as in most countries of the Christian world.The observance of Christmas was introduced once with the Christianization of Romania but public observance was discouraged during the Communist period (1948–1989).
Recently renovated huge Status Quo Synagogue in Târgu Mureș.It was built between 1899 and 1900 according to the plans of the Austrian Jewish architect Jakob Gartner.. This list of synagogues in Romania contains active, otherwise used and destroyed synagogues in Romania.
However, it wasn’t slow in starting to implement its anti-Semitic program. It repudiated Romania's obligations under the Minorities Treaty imposed upon it at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, and then stripped 250,000 Romanian Jews of Romanian citizenship, one third of the Romanian Jewish population. [15] Jewish businesses were also closed down.
Sergiu Grossu was born to Ion and Maria Grossu on 14 November 1920 in Cubolta.In 1927, his family moved to Bălți, where he was a classmate of Eugen Coșeriu.He published in Viața Basarabiei. [2]
Sinaia (Romanian pronunciation:) is a town and a mountain resort in Prahova County, Romania.It is situated in the historical region of Muntenia.The town was named after the Sinaia Monastery of 1695, around which it was built.