The Bavarian city of Augsburg has medieval churches, palaces and the world's oldest social housing. Rent there is only 0.88€ per year.

From 2019 to 2023, an average of 28 churches were lost each year across Germany. ... such as the diocese of Augsburg, where German bishops are currently holding their general assembly. ...

The COVID-19 pandemic is once again casting a big dark shadow over Easter festivities. For so long at the heart of German society, the churches now fear they might lose their influence.

ANALYSIS: Bishop Bertram Meier of Augsburg has long positioned himself as a sort of ‘middleman’ between the Vatican and the German bishops — making his recent criticism of critics of Germany ...

PARIS (RNS) — It’s been 100 years since Germany’s first democratic government decided to stop making generous payments to its Protestant and Roman Catholic churches — and did nothing about it.

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, May 23, 2025 / 09:00 am. Here is a roundup of Catholic world news that you might have missed this week: New statistics show increase in crimes against churches and ...

In Germany, being an official church member usually means paying an extra tax. But a change in the country's tax code is now causing many believers to leave the fold.

Activists of the environmental group "Last Generation" (Letzte Generation) line up for a march outside the Saint Thomas Church in Berlin's Kreuzberg district, Germany, Apr. 26, 2023.