But he believes the church has little choice but to resist the AfD’s growing popularity among Catholics, given Germany’s experience with fascism and the Holocaust.

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 ...

It has doubled -- or even tripled -- since the summer of 2015, when thousands of Syrian refugees arrived in Germany. On Palm Sunday this year, the church in Berlin-Mitte was packed.

On Friday, over 300 people attended an experimental ChatGPT-powered church service at St. Paul’s church in the Bavarian town of Fürth, Germany, reports the Associated Press.

Institutional Catholicism in Germany has for the past three years been treading der Synodale Weg, the “Synodal Way”: a self-constituted, radical form of church legislative assembly that, while ...

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 ...