Hardly considered an extreme activity up to now, singing -- especially
choral singing -- is quickly earning a reputation in the pandemic as about the
most dangerous thing you can do.
A court in central Germany on Tuesday rejected a case calling for a Wittenberg church associated with Protestant
firebrand Martin Luther to remove an ancient anti-Semitic carving from its wall.
A senior member of the church tasked with training new priests has come under fire for calling homosexuality "the consequence of a failed psychological development".
A new study has come to a dramatic conclusion about the decline of Germany’s churches in the coming decades. But it also argues that churches have the power to turn back the tide.
A Catholic priest in Germany, lured by a get-rich-quick Internet scam, has admitted to embezzling a small fortune from his parish, a diocese spokeswoman said Monday.
In many countries, breaking away from the Church is easy. But in Germany, unless you have formally revoked your religious affiliation, you may still be liable for church tax.
A controversial decree requiring
Christian crucifixes to be put up at entrances of most public buildings in Bavaria came into force Friday, sparking accusations of identity politics ahead of elections in the southern German state.
Bavarian leader Markus Söder has announced that crosses must hang in all the state's government buildings, saying the move is a "commitment to Bavarian identity and culture."
Not many people know it, but the churches are the second biggest employers in Germany after the state. On Tuesday the European Court told them they can no longer discriminate based on faith.
A German village has decided to keep a contentious Nazi-era church bell that bears a swastika and the words "All for the Fatherland - Adolf Hitler", arguing it serves as a reminder of the country's dark past.
The demolition of a historic church to clear the way for the expansion of an open-cast mine this week has outraged locals in western Germany and environmentalists, as politicians moot giving up their own clean energy targets.
Authorities in Bavaria have started to act against the church when it shields people the state wants to deport. But clerics say they are unbending in their determination to resist - and claim the fight is only making them stronger.
The former choirmaster of a Catholic school in Germany where more than 500 children were abused, including sexually, was a "fanatic" who was "feared" by pupils, his immediate successor said on Wednesday.
The Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau has built a robot to give out blessings to visitors in Wittenberg, Saxony-Anhalt as it celebrates the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation.
In the coming 12 months, hundreds of events will take place to commemorate the reformer Martin Luther, hoping to bring the two Christian Churches closer together.
Retired pope Benedict XVI fell in love during his student days in Germany and struggled with the idea of celibacy, said the author of a new book to be published Friday.
The Church in Germany still has a relationship to the state much closer than in many other western democracies. But the public showing of a British comedy classic could change that.
Boredom during long sermons could soon be a thing of the past in Berlin and Brandenburg as the Protestant Church plans to install Wi-Fi hotspots in its 3,000 churches.
Outside of Berlin there are only two mosques in the whole of the former East Germany. The populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) are trying to scupper plans for a new one in Erfurt, state capital of Thuringia.
Alternative for Germany (AfD) leader Frauke Petry took on the Catholic Church on Wednesday, calling bishops "dishonest" for their involvement in refugee politics.
