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Other activities implemented by Caritas Romania were the counselling of people with special needs, emergency response in emergency situations, such as caused by natural disasters (e.g. 2005 floods [6]) or conflict (influx of Ukrainian refugees after the 2022 Russian invasion [7]), and anti-drug prevention and counselling programmes.
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.
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 ...
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In May 1999, Romania was the first majority-Orthodox country to be visited by Pope John Paul II, who was personally welcomed by Teoctist Arăpașu, the Patriarch of All Romania. [48] Problems continued to be faced in the relation with the Orthodox Church, in respect to the status of Greek-Catholic status and property.
In 1941, as Nazi German troops entered Romania, the Wehrmacht confiscated the training school building and completely closed the institution the next year (see also Romania during World War II). [5] At the end of that year the Antonescu regime closed all Adventist churches and imprisoned church leaders, but meetings continued in secret.
The oldest proof that an Orthodox church hierarchy existed among the Romanians north of the river Danube is a papal bull of 1234. In the territories east and south of the Carpathian Mountains, two metropolitan sees subordinate to the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople were set up after the foundation of two principalities, Wallachia and Moldavia in the 14th century.
The Reformed Church in Romania (Hungarian: Romániai Református Egyház; Romanian: Biserica Reformată din România) is a Calvinist denomination and the largest Protestant church in Romania. The majority of its followers are of Hungarian ethnicity and Hungarian is the main church language.