The mayor of Cologne has announced a two-year pilot project that will allow mosques to broadcast the call to prayer on the Muslim day of rest each week.
Germany has launched a state-backed training centre for imams to help reduce the number of Islamic leaders coming in from abroad, but the initiative has been shunned by leading Turkish groups.
German intelligence services said Wednesday
that they would widen their surveillance of the Islamophobic protest movement
Pegida in its home state of Saxony, as the group had become a "extremist" and
"anti-constitutional".
Around 5.5 million Muslims live in Germany, almost one million more than five years ago. And now the group is more diverse than ever before, according to a new study.
Germany's highest court on Thursday upheld a
ban on headscarves for Muslim trainee lawyers in courts, finding that the
requirement of maintaining religious neutrality was justified.
Around half of the German population has concerns about Islam, according to a new study on democracy and religious tolerance. But what's the reason behind the negative feeling towards Islam felt by many?
A German court on Monday ordered
seven Islamic fundamentalists to pay fines over a so-called "sharia police" patrol they launched in 2014 to mass media and political outrage.
Drinks coasters with questions about Islam have been handed out in Maintal, near Frankfurt, in a bid to promote integration. But is it culturally insensitive given that many Muslims do not drink alcohol?
On Wednesday and Thursday, the controversial Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CDU) is for the first time hosting the Islam Conference in Berlin, with integration as a top theme.
Publishing giant Random House has declined to release a new book by controversial German politician-turned-author Thilo
Sarrazin over fears it could whip up anti-Muslim hatred.
Germanyâs new Interior Minister caused uproar last week when he declared that "Islam doesnât belong to Germany." The Germany expression is a headache to translate, partly because it is so deliberately vague.
The right-wing populist Alternative for Germany party deleted a survey that it had posted on social media on Tuesday, after participants gave a radically different answer to the one they wanted.
The first major controversy of Germany's new government broke out on Friday when Merkel was forced to contradict her new interior minister over the place of Islam in the country.
A German court in Traunstein on Friday handed a life term to an Afghan asylum seeker who stabbed to death a compatriot mother-of-four because she had converted to Christianity.
A member of Germany's far-right and anti-Muslim Alternative for Germany party (AfD) who recently converted to Islam has said he did so in protest at what he sees as the "moral decline" of the Protestant church.
The Alternative for Germany is known for its mantra that âIslam doesnât belong in Germany.â Now a senior member of the party in Brandenburg has caused a mini-sensation by converting to Islam.
An Afghan asylum seeker went on trial in southern Germany on Tuesday accused of stabbing to death a compatriot mother-of-four because he was furious she had converted to Christianity.
Sheikh Nahjan Mubarak al Nahjan, the minister for tolerance in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has said that inadequate surveillance of mosques has led to Islamist terrorism in Germany.
Thomas de Maizière, the federal interior minister, suggested on Monday that parts of Germany with large Muslim populations could get public holidays during Muslim festivals.
Germany's right-wing populist AfD party ramped up attacks Monday against immigration and Islam as its poll ratings jumped in the final stretch of election campaigning, while Chancellor Angela Merkel's party dipped.
Muslims who have already lived in Germany for a while are better integrated than Muslims in other European countries, according to a study released by the Bertelsmann Foundation on Thursday. But the study revealed some weaknesses in integration, too.
The Muslim community has actually had a presence - though small - in Germany for hundreds of years. Here are more facts you might not know about Islam in the country.
The case of a Muslim pupil refusing to remove her niqab triggered debate in Lower Saxony. Now a new law may mean that full-face Islamic veils will no longer be allowed in state schools.
Around 30 Muslim leaders from across Europe gathered Sunday for a rally against terror in Berlin at the site of a deadly truck attack in December, claimed by the Isis terror group.
