Germany allowed church services to resume in a limited capacity on Sunday following a six-week hiatus during a countrywide coronavirus lockdown – but worshipers won’t be able to sing just yet.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

In 2019, church marriages declined by 10%, Confirmations by 7% and First Communions by 3%, according to the website of the Catholic Church in Germany. The number of baptisms also fell from 167,787 ...

More Than 220,000 People Left the Catholic Church in Germany in 2020. The new statistics showed that there were 104,610 baptisms in 2020, compared to 159,043 in 2019.

In 2019, a total of 272,771 German Catholics formally left the Church -- more than ever before.The figures for 2020 will not be published until the northern hemisphere’s summer.

In 2018, a church-commissioned report concluded that at least 3,677 people were abused by clergy in Germany between 1946 and 2014. More than half of the victims were 13 or younger, and nearly a ...