A Namibian delegation has been handed the remains of 27 countrymen whose bones were taken by German colonial forces more than a century ago for pseudo-scientifi At a church ceremony in Berlin, two sk...
A senior German bishop has apologised for thousands of sexual abuse cases reported to have taken place inside the Catholic Church in Germany. The report released on Tuesday concludes at lea...
German church leaders have spoken out against their country's growing arms sales to Gulf states including Saudi Arabia and Qatar. They've advised the government to tighten laws around the export of w...
Claims that a meeting of German bishops was called to organise a campaign to change Church doctrine on marriage have been denied. The country's senior clergymen met ahead of the October family synod ...
A cardinal has hit out at a political party which supports the banning of minarets, muezzins and full veils in Germany. Rainer Maria Woelki also refuted the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party's clai...
Catholic leaders in Germany have called for other countries to play their part in the refugee crisis and take in more asylum seekers. Archbishop of Munich, Cardinal Reinhard Marx, said Germany can't ...
A German church has discovered after 74 years that its church bell is cast with a swastika. Cast in 1943, the bell in St Jacob's church also praises the Nazi regime with "everything for the fatherlan...
A church in Germany has held a special service for a teenage immigrant who died fighting for Islamic State (IS). The Hamburg church remembered the life of the Cameroon-born teenager, known as Florent...
Germany's Catholic Church and Protestant churches have failed to curb their drop in membership. Germany's Catholic Church lost 216,078 members and Protestant churches lost some 220,000...
A 27-year-old Palestinian man has been convicted of murder and attempted murder for killing one person and wounding six others in a stabbing spree at a Hamburg Ahmad Alhaw was given a life term for ...
A German pastor has told Premier Christians should pray for the leaders of the world's 20 wealthiest nations that meeting in Germany today. Edward Owen, pastor of Hamburg International Church said du...
The number of people becoming Catholic priests in Germany has dropped to its lowest level ever. Only 58 men were ordained into the Catholic clergy in 2015, according to new figures released by the Ge...
The sexual abuse of more than 3,600 people by 1,670 clergy members within Germany's Catholic Church will be published in a report on Tuesday. The abuse, which occurred over a period of 68 years, is o...
The largest state in Germany has outlined plans to ban the full-face Islamic veil in public buildings because it is not in keeping with "Christian values". Bavaria will ban the face covering, which o...
The German state of Bavaria has made it mandatory for all state buildings to have Christian crosses at the entrance. Premier Markus Soder said crosses should not be seen as religious symbols but as a...
It's been reported that children have pelted two priests in Germany with stones shouting 'Allahu Akbar', which means 'God is great' in Arabic. According to the Daily Express and the German Main-Spitz...
The German parliament has voted to label the killings of Armenians, many of them Christians, by Ottoman Turks a century ago as genocide. The motion, which was put forward by Chancellor Angela Merkel'...
An international Catholic charity says that more humanitarian aid needs to be given to local partners on the ground rather than governments or big organisations CAFOD, the Catholic overseas aid agenc...
A giant cross is being built in Karachi, Pakistan, a country has a Christian minority. It is being built by a businessman who said the idea came to him in a dream.The Washington Post has report...
A giant cross is under construction in Karachi, Pakistan. According to BBC journalist Shahzeb Jillani, the cross is thought to be one of the highest in the region and measures around 43 metres high.T...
