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 ...

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

(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 (AP) — About 5.5 million of Germany’s 83.2 million residents are Muslim, and almost 3 million people in the country are Turkish or have Turkish roots. BERLIN (AP) — Germany and Turkey agreed ...

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 ...

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 it could increase ...

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 ...