Germany's most senior Protestant theologian, Annette Kurschus, has resigned. However, she said as she quit that allegations of having covered up sexual abuse within the church were unfounded.

This report comes several years after Germany's Catholic Church published staggering numbers on sexual abuse by its clergy. In 2018, a church-commissioned report concluded that at least 3,677 ...

BERLIN Germany’s Protestant church leader resigned on Monday following accusations that she covered up sexual abuse of children by a church employee.

A study on sexual violence in the Protestant Church in Germany (EKD) released on Thursday has documented at least 1,259 people accused of misconduct within the religious organization in recent ...

Germany’s Protestant leader quits but denies ignoring sex abuse allegations Annette Kurschus says she is stepping down ‘to prevent damage to my church’.

Some 2,225 people suffered sexual violence in Germany's Protestant Church at the hands of 1,259 suspected perpetrators over the last eight decades, a study found on Thursday, warning that the ...

At the bottom is Elisabethkirche, a 13th-century sandstone church that was one of the earliest purely Gothic churches in Germany and is well worth a visit inside and out.

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 ...

At least 1,259 people working for the Protestant Church of Germany have committed sexual abuse in the last decades, according to a comprehensive report published Thursday.