According to Germany's Federal Office for Migration and Refugees, Protestant, Catholic and independent churches recorded a total of 617 cases of church asylum in the first quarter of 2025.

BERLIN (AP) — 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 ...

A report commissioned by Germany’s Cologne archdiocese on church officials’ handling of past cases of sexual abuse has found 75 cases in which eight high-ranking officials – among them a ...

Requests for church asylum have almost quadrupled in some places, according to the Protestant Church in Germany (EKD). However, not everyone can be offered protection.

Crimes against religious communities also increased, reaching 8,531 in 2024, compared with 7,029 in 2023. Cologne Cathedral in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. (photo: Rudolf Gehrig/CNA Deutsch ...

BERLIN (AP) — More than 120 employees of the Catholic Church in Germany publicly outed themselves as queer on Monday, saying they want to “live openly without fear“ in the church and pushing ...

The 40-minute service was created by ChatGPT, who was personified by an avatar on a screen, and Jonas Simmerlein from the University of Vienna at a Lutheran church in Germany.

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 ...