Aging membership and an increasingly secular society are causing challenges for Pax Christi, the 80-year-old international Catholic peace movement that defends human rights and focuses on ending ...

Crimes Against Churches and Christians in Germany On the Rise Crimes against religious communities also increased, reaching 8,531 in 2024, compared with 7,029 in 2023.

The bells of all Catholic churches of the 27 dioceses of Germany are expected to toll at 11 a.m. (local time) on Jan 5. to pay respect for the late pontiff.

These unique churches in Munich have particularly exciting architecture, significant history or impressive splendor.

Germany has been home to a large Catholic community for centuries, which has seen some dramatic shifts through history and in recent years. How large and influential is the church in Germany today?

The Jesuit Church in the pedestrian zone of downtown Munich is considered Germany's first Renaissance church. 15 statues of former rulers adorn the facade of St. Michael. Some of them rest in the ...

Pope Francis Pope Francis warns German bishops: Changing teachings is 'not lawful,' causes churches to 'rot and die' Catholic Church in Germany considering alternative teachings on homosexuality ...

Munich's main synagogue was one of the first to be destroyed in Nazi Germany, under Hitler's orders. No one knew what had become of the rubble — until construction workers made a discovery last ...

Cardinal Reinhard Marx, archbishop of Munich, welcomed the move to regularise a practice that had already crept into some German Catholic churches in recent years.

All built before the 1880s, the city's 10 oldest historic churches preserve the histories of many ethnic groups and religious denominations.

The flood of people leaving the German Catholic Church has accelerated, breaking another new record in 2022. Numerous sexual abuse scandals are believed to be in part to blame.