In Germany, being an official church member usually means paying an extra tax. But a change in the country's tax code is now causing many believers to leave the fold.

Protestant church has become unlikely staging point for climate activists in their latest two-week campaign to bring Berlin's traffic to a standstill by gluing themselves onto asphalt ...

More than 120 employees of the Catholic Church in Germany have publicly outed themselves as queer, saying they want to “live openly without fear” in the church ...

Institutional Catholicism in Germany has for the past three years been treading der Synodale Weg, the “Synodal Way”: a self-constituted, radical form of church legislative assembly that, while ...

Report on sex abuse in Germany's Protestant Church documents at least 2,225 victims At least 1,259 people working for the Protestant Church of Germany have committed sexual abuse, claiming at ...

On Friday, over 300 people attended an experimental ChatGPT-powered church service at St. Paul’s church in the Bavarian town of Fürth, Germany, reports the Associated Press. The 40-minute ...

Another 400,000 people formally left the Catholic Church in Germany last year, though the number was down from a record set in 2022 as church leaders struggle to put a long-running scandal over ...

For the past 40 years, refugees in Germany have been able to claim temporary sanctuary in Christian churches, a practice known as church asylum. The impetus for this was an act of desperation.

WASHINGTON — A record number of Catholics formally left the Church in Germany in 2019, according to official figures released Friday. The statistics issued June 26 showed that 272,771 people ...

Germany's Catholic Church publicly opposes right-wing extremism and the populist Alternative for Germany party.

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 ...

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.