Muslims exceed Christians in Vienna’s public schools
May 14, 2026
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CWN Editor's Note: The number of Muslim students in public schools in Vienna, Austria, exceeds the number of Christians.
42% of the approximately 114,000 students are Muslims. 17% are Catholic, 14% are Eastern Orthodox, and 23% have no religious affiliation.
“The newer Muslim communities often come from more explicitly religious environments and tend to practice a form of Islam described by critics as more rigid, more centered on literal Quranic interpretation, and less culturally assimilated into European society,” the Zenit news agency reported.
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