According to the German Bishops’ Conference, Catholics now make up less than a quarter of Germany’s population and less than ...

The Catholic Church in Germany has lost another 321,611 followers in 2024. The exodus of believers continues inexorably, and according to statistics presented by the German Bishops' Conference ...

Delivered during a panel discussion entitled "Bonhoeffer's Context: The Churches' Responses to Nazism" during the conference Dietrich Bonhoeffer for Our Times: Jewish and Christian Perspectives, ...

St. Michael's, Hamburg's largest church, is actually the third church to be built in the same spot and was constructed in 1912. Visitors flock to the landmark church to see its five different ...

Germany's Roman Catholics can only remain part of the Church if they pay a membership tax, a court has ruled. All Germans who are officially registered as Catholics, Protestants or Jews pay a ...

Before the vote, the Protestant Church in Germany (EKD) and the Catholic German Bishops' Conference (DBK) wrote a joint letter to all parliamentarians urgently warning against such collaboration ...

Meanwhile public prosecutors in Munich announced on Friday that they were opening investigations in 42 cases of alleged misconduct by leading members of the Catholic Church in Germany.

With church congregations dwindling in Germany, clergy are finding creative ways to attract young people. Faced with dwindling church congregations in Germany, spiritual leaders are getting ...