BERLINBERLIN — At least 1,259 people working for the Protestant Church of Germany have committed sexual abuse in the last decades and at least 2,225 victims were affected by the abuse according to an ...

Continuing a years-long trend, the Catholic Church in Germany saw a significant drop in membership this past year, losing more than 200,000 members in 2018. According to the German Bishops' Conference ...

When Arturo Blazquez started studying theology three years ago, he approached it as a hobby, because he couldn't conceive ...

Monika Schmelter, left, and Marie Kortenbusch, right, stand hand in hand in front of a statue of Mary at a convent in Luedinghausen, Germany, Monday, Jan. 24, 2022. More than 100 employees of the ...

Thanks to the efforts of the German bishops under the leadership of Cardinal Reinhard Marx of Munich-Freising, the Church in Germany is poised to pursue a radical “binding synodal path” that seeks to ...

ROME-- Pope Francis called sex abuse "monstrous" on his return flight from a four-day trip to Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia on Tuesday. During his tour, he acknowledged for the first time that the ...

BERLIN, Germany — A third of all German Catholics are considering leaving the Church, according to a new survey published on Thursday. The representative study, unveiled March 11, was conducted by the ...

BERLIN (AP) — The departures left the number of Catholic Church members in Germany at nearly 20.94 million, just under a quarter of the population. BERLIN (AP) — More than half a million people ...

A top cleric in Germany’s Catholic Church has offered to resign as the Archbishop of Munich, saying he shared “responsibility for the catastrophe of sexual abuse” by church officials. “In essence, it ...

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 ...

A third of all German Catholics are considering leaving the Church, according to a new survey published on Thursday. The representative study, unveiled March 11, was conducted by the Erfurt-based ...