Topic: Germany
PARIS (Reuters) - Over 140 Roman Catholic theologians in Germany have urged the church to embrace far-reaching reforms to end priestly celibacy, ordain women, welcome same-sex couples and let lay people help pick their bishops.The appeal, the second reform call in two ...
The German state of Lower Saxony is considering banning the Islamic full-face veil for civil servants, its interior minister said Thursday, after a neighbouring region said it would take similar measures."The burqa has no place in public service," Uwe Schuenemann told the ...
Religion News in BriefThe Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston is the latest diocese in the U.S. to announce that it must freeze pensions for workers.The change will hit about 10,000 church secretaries, parochial school teachers and other lay employees in the Boston ...
BERLIN (Reuters) - German victims of abuse in foster homes said on Monday the 120 million euros proposed as compensation was "humiliatingly" small compared with damages awarded in other countries, and vowed to fight for more.After a two-year inquiry, a government-appointed panel ...
Pope on 'false prophets': Dictators change the world in destructive waysPope Benedict XVI, who spent his youth in Hitler's Germany, says dictators boast that they will change the world, but just bring destruction.The pontiff's reflections on what he calls history's "false prophets" ...
THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Almost 2,000 people have declared themselves victims of sexual and physical abuse while they were minors in the care of the Roman Catholic Church in the Netherlands, an independent commission said Thursday.The investigation into abuses dating back to ...
Even Germany joins in as Europe's cultural clash with radical Islam goes mainstreamThe 200 robed and bearded men gathered at dusk on the market square, rolled out their prayer rugs and intoned Allah's praises as dismayed townspeople looked on.It was Ramadan, the ...
Germany's Jewish community sets up menorah in front of iconic Brandenburg GateThe leaders of Berlin's Jewish community set up a 20-foot (six-meter) tall menorah for Hanukkah on Wednesday against the backdrop of one of Germany's most historically important symbols, the Brandenburg Gate.Eight ...
Outgoing Jewish leader and survivor of Nazi Germany receives national civilian honorThe German president has given one of the nation's highest civilian honors to the outgoing head of Germany's Central Council of Jews, praising her role in fighting extremism and anti-Semitism.In awarding ...
Tillich was a central figure in the intellectual life of his time both in Germany and the United States. In assessing Tillich's role in relation to this development, some critics have regarded him as the last major spokesman for a vanishing Christian ...
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Germany Alpine Skiing World Cup
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