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Austria: majority of altar servers are girls
July 19, 2017
Nearly a quarter century after the practice of female altar servers became licit, 55% of Austria’s 45,000 altar servers are girls, according to statistics published by the Archdiocese of Vienna.
In addition, 2,800 of the 5,000 persons who supervise altar servers in Austria are women.
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