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.

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 ...

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

Church members who sought to uphold their personal and institutional traditions were indeed intimidated and often paid the price of their defiance of the regime. For example, nearly one third of the ...

Video. Hundreds of thousands celebrated Carnival across Germany in colourful costumes, enjoying candy, flowers and festivities.

It was smuggled into Germany and read in all German Catholic churches at the same hour on Palm Sunday 1937. It did not explicitly mention Hitler or Nazism, but it firmly condemned the Nazi doctrines.

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.

Faced with dwindling church congregations in Germany, spiritual leaders are getting creative in their efforts to attract young people. The numbers of people leaving both the Catholic and ...

The church has not decided whether to appeal. There are assumed to be about 40 Judensaus in Germany, the oldest dating to the 13th century. Intended to teach lessons about sin and virtue ...