For distributing the Bible and sharing the Gospel in the Soviet Union, Aleksei Kharlamov’s great-grandfather was sent to ...

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, second right, his wife Elke Buedenbender, right, Lithuanian President Gitanas ...

CORRECTS DIANA'S SURNAME TO NAUSEDIENE - German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, second right, his wife Elke Buedenbender, ...

The number of people in monastic orders in Germany is sinking, with many convents and monasteries facing dissolution. What ...

EDITORIAL: The Supreme Court’s recent Montgomery County decision and the Archdiocese of Hamburg’s new pro-LGBT sex-education ...

Most people who switch religions do not join another tradition; they leave religion altogether. Christians and Buddhists are ...

Sociologists of religion present a new edition of one of the most comprehensive empirical studies of religious trends across the world – Detlef ...

A 1983 routine cleaning at Boerne High School in Texas yielded a rare and precious find: a thick, ornate Bible wrapped in cloth and written in low German. Now it will soon be seen online.

In February, Germany’s far-right party Alternative für Deutschland made sweeping gains in a federal election, especially in ...

Renewed Spirit, 449 N. Ninth St., Reading, will hold its annual German Maifest worship service on May 4 at 11 a.m. led by the Rev. Sonja Ware, a native of Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Germany, will ...

‘Hysteria’ Review: Religion, Immigration and Ambition Collide on a Movie Shoot in This Shrewdly Scathing German Whodunit Director Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay’s new feature follows a second ...

Representing Germany’s 35 million Protestants, they were holding the first regular meeting of EKID (Evangelical Church in Germany), under a brand-new ecclesiastical constitution.