More than 100,000 people have signed a petition launched in Germany calling on the Catholic Church not to invoke the statute ...

The head of the Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK) has criticized recent remarks by Pope Leo XIV on LGBTQ issues, as ...

BERLINBERLIN — At least 1,259 people working for the Protestant Church of Germany have committed sexual abuse in the last decades and at least 2,225 victims were affected by the abuse according to an ...

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 ...

Germany is a land of contrasts, with a difficult past. Rich in Christian history, the nation was the focal point of the Reformation in 1517 and the seedbed of influential ...

Protests for and against liberal abortion laws are set to begin in Berlin and Cologne Climate activists have called for ...

BERLIN (AP) — The departures left the number of Catholic Church members in Germany at nearly 20.94 million, just under a quarter of the population. BERLIN (AP) — More than half a million people ...

It's been 100 years since Germany's first democratic government decided to stop making generous payments to its Protestant and Roman Catholic churches — and did nothing about it. The bill now runs to ...

An increasing number of practicing German Catholics don’t want to fund the local Church’s controversial trajectory in the wake of the Synodal Way; but the only way to not pay the ‘church tax’ is to ...

Three Catholics have submitted a “dubium” to the Vatican asking if the Church in Germany is in schism. The trio from the Diocese of Essen formally requested a ruling from the Congregation for the ...

The 1960s were turbulent times. And Catholics in Europe faced storms of radical change that left many weary or even cynical. In 1969, one of Germany's rising theologians -- a liberal priest at Vatican ...

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 ...