A German regional court on Tuesday ordered the Archdiocese of Cologne to pay €300,000 (roughly US$325,000) in damages to an abuse victim for crimes committed in the 1970s. A far higher sum than ...

The archdiocese has framed its decision to allow use of the symbol in these instances as “differentiated target group communication.” Use of the symbol—an asterisk placed in a German word ...

AUGSBURG, Germany -- An arms dealer at the center of the CDU funding scandal which has rocked Germany is to face trial, a judge has ruled. Karlheinz Schreiber, who has both German and Canadian ...