Catholic parents wishing to protect their children from such education face ‘complete entrapment,’ say pro-family advocates, as home schooling is banned in Germany and they are obliged to pay the ...

GERMANY: Holy War; GERMANY: Holy War. 6 minute read. TIME. May 31, 1937 12:00 AM GMT-4. ... He hoped that wholesale convictions would destroy the prestige of the Catholic Church for good, ...

Those concerned with Germany’s Synodal Way and — by extension — the Synod on Synodality, may have hoped for a stronger intervention from the Holy See, one that repudiated what’s going on ...

Institutional Catholicism in Germany has for the past three years been treading der Synodale Weg, the “Synodal Way”: a self-constituted, radical form of church legislative assembly that, while ...

CNA Newsroom, Jul 20, 2023 / 09:20 am. On Thursday, July 20, the Catholic Church marks the 90th anniversary of a deal made in Rome on a hot summer day in 1933 between Hitler’s Germany and the ...

Syria's new president has promised to replace the Assad dictatorship with a multireligious society where all faiths are ...

In trying to realize the Nazi dream of a perfect "Totalitarian State," Adolf Hitler has notably failed to bring to heel Germany's devout Protestant pastors and their congregations.

WURZBERG, Germany, June 15, 2010 -- Shortly before Pentecost, Pastor S. received an unexpected early morning visit, not from the Holy Ghost, but from the police. For the authorities, the words of ...

A gay couple lights votive candles at a Catholic church in Essen, Germany, Oct. 30, 2021. A majority of German bishops voted March 10 in favor of same-sex blessings.

Three people in Germany and four in the UK fell ill with cholera after directly drinking or splashing their faces with the holy water. Two required intensive care.

For the past 40 years, refugees in Germany have been able to claim temporary sanctuary in Christian churches, a practice known as church asylum. The impetus for this was an act of desperation.

Germany’s Synodal Way is a multi-year gathering of bishops and laypeople launched in 2019 amid fallout from the country’s massive clerical abuse crisis with the intention of reevaluating ...