A man prays in Eisenach, Germany, Monday, May 6, 2019. At least 1,259 people working for the Protestant Church of Germany have committed sexual abuse in the last decades and more than 2,225 victims ...

The number of practicing Christians in Germany is falling. The result is surplus churches. What happens to these empty houses of worship?On its final day, St. Anna's is almost full again. A choir is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Youssef, a Syrian refugee, sits in front of a used computer in his room at the rectory of the evangelical congregation of Bad ...

BERLINBERLIN — More than half a million people formally left the Catholic Church in Germany last year, significantly higher than the previous record as the church wrestles with a long-running scandal ...

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 abuse ...

Catholic leaders of evangelization efforts in Germany agree with Bishop Bätzing’s recent diagnosis of the country’s spiritual quandary, but some disagree with the approach Church leadership has taken ...

Tomorrow is Sunday, and millions of people will be heading to a church or a house of worship worldwide. Going to church has been a common practice for a long time, but the church may be changing, at ...

An increasing number of practicing German Catholics don’t want to fund the local Church’s controversial trajectory in the wake of the Synodal Way; but the only way to not pay the ‘church tax’ is to ...

BERLIN — More than half a million people formally left the Catholic Church in Germany last year, significantly higher than the previous record as the church wrestles with a long-running scandal over ...

BERLIN (AP) - 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 ...

The Cologne Cathedral is seen at the end of an empty street in Cologne Germany, Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020. Germany has entered a harder lockdown, closing shops and schools in an effort to bring down ...