Many young people in Germany have embraced religious and right-wing extremism. What can be done to combat the growing ...

In a suburban community of the ancient Westphalian city of Bielefeld—a sprawling colony of hospitals and asylums that for nearly a century has been a center of German religious charities—120 leading ...

(RNS) The practical approach these faculties have taken contrasts sharply with the increasingly shrill declarations coming from Germany’s far-right. (RNS) While Germany’s politicians are loudly ...

BERLIN — When Germans file their annual tax returns, religion matters a great deal. If you’re Catholic, tax authorities will likely collect an income tax surcharge of about 10 percent on behalf of ...

Administrative court rules state neutrality outweighs religious freedom; critics say decision discriminates against Muslim women seeking public office - Anadolu Ajansı ...

ANGELA MERKEL, who grew up in communist East Germany as the daughter of a Lutheran pastor, is a "serious Christian" whose faith is mostly kept "thoroughly private", although every so often she can ...

A German court has determined that a Muslim woman who declines to remove her headscarf during proceedings cannot serve as a ...

An Islamist organization that distributes German-language copies of the Quran to passers-by has been banned by the German government who accused it of recruiting would-be jihadists to fight in Syria ...

The president of the German Bishops’ Conference, Bishop Georg Bätzing, said that the shortest definition of religion is “interruption,” and that some forms of continuity people seek from religion are ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - A German court's ban on circumcising baby boys has provoked a rare show of unity between Jews, Muslims and Christians who see it as a threat to religious freedom, while doctors warn ...