Semjen: Number of church schools doubled since 2010

The number of church-run educational institutions and the number of students in such schools have doubled since 2010, Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjen said at the year-opening event of the local Catholic secondary and primary school and kindergarten of Kapuvar, in western Hungary, on Monday. A total of 220,000 children study in Hungary's 1,067 church-run schools, Semjen said. Since 2010, some 120 churches have been built and 2,800 revamped, he added. Contrary to western Europe, no church in Hungary has been closed or converted to shopping malls and mosques, Semjen said.