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News Germany » Religion: Why isn't Eastern Germany Religious

News channel or source: https://www.msn.com/en-us/society-culture-and-history/general/why-isn-t-eastern-germany-religious/vi-AA1MTHKo

Published on: Monday 27 October 2025

Around the globe, Europe is generally heavily associated with the religion of Christianity, just as the Middle East is usually linked to Islam, and so on and so forth. The general assumption about ...

News Germany » Religion: Two-Thirds of Global Population Faces Threats to Religious Freedom, New Report Finds

News channel or source: https://www.freedommag.org/news/two-thirds-of-global-population-faces-threats-to-religious-freedom-new-report-finds-a7fb97

Published on: Friday 31 October 2025

Billions of people in 62 countries could face persecution and discrimination for practicing their faith as religious freedom declines worldwide.

News Germany » Religion: As Germany’s far right builds ties with US conservatives, churches push back

News channel or source: https://religionnews.com/2025/06/25/as-germanys-far-right-builds-ties-with-u-s-conservatives-churches-push-back/

Published on: Tuesday 24 June 2025

BERLIN (RNS) — In February, Germany’s far-right party Alternative für Deutschland made sweeping gains in a federal election, especially in the country’s east, formerly the German Democratic Republic ...

News Germany » Religion: German Interior Ministry attacks religious freedom with ban on the Islamic Centre Hamburg

News channel or source: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/07/30/poxc-j30.html

Published on: Tuesday 23 July 2024

On Wednesday last week, the Federal Interior Ministry banned the Islamic Centre Hamburg (IZH) and its alleged offshoots in Berlin, Munich and Frankfurt am Main. The police stormed and searched a total ...

News Germany » Religion: How the governing Christian Democrats pave the way for the far-right Alternative for Germany

News channel or source: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/10/24/ibnb-o24.html

Published on: Thursday 23 October 2025

Advocates of direct cooperation with the AfD are now so strong that the CDU's executive committee met for a two-day retreat last weekend to discuss how to deal with the right-wing extremists in the ...

News Germany » Religion: Germany player Rüdiger takes legal steps after Ramadan greeting prompts accusation of terror support

News channel or source: https://religionnews.com/2024/03/27/germany-player-rudiger-takes-legal-steps-after-ramadan-greeting-prompts-accusation-of-terror-support/

Published on: Tuesday 26 March 2024

BERLIN (AP) — Former Bild chief editor Julian Reichelt responded on X, formerly Twitter, with a series of posts accusing the player of “Islamism” and of showing the “ISIS-greeting of Islamists. BERLIN ...

News Germany » Religion: The making of a transnational religion: Alevi movement in Germany and the World Alevi union

News channel or source: https://www.jstor.org/stable/48541299

Published on: Wednesday 01 January 2025

British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 46, No. 2, Special Issue: Diasporas from the Middle East: Displacement, Transnational Identities and Homeland Politics (May 2019), pp. 259-273 (15 pages ...

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