With lavish rooms, historical spaces and an outpost of the tony international sushi restaurant Matsuhisa, the Mandarin ...

The Diocese of Limburg — led by the chairman of the German Bishops’ Conference, Bishop Georg Bätzing — recorded its first annual deficit of 810,000 euros in 2024.

Catholic opposition to the death penalty is relatively new in the church’s history, but has helped shape public debate.

BERLIN—Another 400,000 people left the Catholic Church in Germany last year, though the number was down from a record set in 2022 as church leaders struggle to put a long-running scandal over ...

The Catholic Church in Germany continues to shrink, a new study has found. More than 400,000 people in the European country left the church in 2023, according to statistics presented by the German ...

FILE - People wait for the beginning of an Easter Sunday Mass at the Church of the Holy Spirit 'Heilig Geist Kirche' in Munich, Germany, Sunday, April 4, 2021. Another 400,000 people formally left ...

Matthias Schrader FILE - A man sits in the empty 'Church of our Lady' in Munich, Germany, Thursday, March 19, 2020. Another 400,000 people formally left the Catholic Church in Germany last year ...

BERLIN (AP) — More than half a million people formally left the Catholic Church in Germany last year, significantly higher than the previous record as the church wrestles with a long-running ...

The number of people leaving the Catholic Church in Germany increased significantly last year as the church continues to wrestle with a long-running scandal over abuse by clergy and with calls for ...