The number of practicing Christians in Germany is falling. The result is surplus churches. What happens to these empty houses ...

Media representatives take pictures of printed copies of the study on abuse in the Protestant church. The first comprehensive study on sexualized violence in the Protestant Church in Germany (EKD) and ...

More than 220,000 people left Catholic Church in Germany in 2020, according to official figures released on Wednesday. The statistics issued by the German bishops’ conference on July 14 showed that ...

A man prays in Eisenach, Germany, Monday, May 6, 2019. At least 1,259 people working for the Protestant Church of Germany have committed sexual abuse in the last decades and more than 2,225 victims ...

Observers of the Catholic Church in Germany have long feared that the country’s ongoing Synodal Way would lead to a split from Rome. And after the German bishops refused a Vatican request in November ...

The Church in Germany is called to follow revealed truth rather than the spirit of the times, George Weigel, biographer of St. John Paul II and a leading Catholic scholar, has said in response to ...

In the coronavirus year 2020, fewer Christians left the church in Germany than in previous years, two church organizations reported on July 14. About 221,000 Catholics quit the church, while 220,000 ...

BERLIN — More than half a million people formally left the Catholic Church in Germany last year, significantly higher than the previous record as the church wrestles with a long-running scandal over ...

A man leaves an empty church in Bonn Germany, June 12, 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic. The number of people resigning from membership in the Catholic Church has hit a new record in Germany in 2022 ...

Germany’s highest appeal court has ruled that a medieval sculpture can remain on the outside of a church in Wittenberg, eastern Germany, despite acknowledging that it is anti-Semitic. The sandstone ...

LEIPZIG, Germany – As a boy, Helge Voigt celebrated Christmas Eve listening to Bach's Christmas Oratorio, opening a few gifts and savoring a special dinner. Notably absent were a nativity scene, ...

BERLIN, Germany — More than 220,000 people left Catholic Church in Germany in 2020, according to official figures released on Wednesday. The statistics issued by the German bishops’ conference on July ...