This initiative by the mainline Rhineland church, published in early October, prompted a sharp response from Germany’s small evangelical movement. “We declare firmly that the fundamental ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis said in an interview published on Tuesday that he told the leader of Germany’s Catholic bishops that the country already had “a very good Evangelical Church ...

Representing Germany’s 35 million Protestants, they were holding the first regular meeting of EKID (Evangelical Church in Germany), under a brand-new ecclesiastical constitution. The only ...

The family and spiritual seeds planted by the German Evangelical Church near Dutchtown still grow strong throughout the region. Many area families can trace their lineage back to the German ...

Roman Catholics now comprise 24% of the population, while Protestants affiliated with the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) account for 21%. According to Fowid, Protestants had seen steeper ...

GermanyIn Germay the centuries-old tradition of church government by secular princes survived until 1918, when the individual territorial churches adopted their own constitutions. Before this time ...

That corresponds to about 26 percent of the population. The Protestant, or Evangelical Church in Germany, has 19.7 million members, which corresponds to 23.5 percent. Christians in Germany remain ...

Berlin’s vast Sportpalast rumbled one night last week with a great gathering of the “German Christians,” Nazi Wing of the Evangelical Church (TIME. June 12, et seq.). on deck to demand the ...

The unusual service took place as part of a convention called Deutscher Evangelischer Kirchentag (German Evangelical Church Congress), an event held biennially in Germany that draws tens of ...