Bavarians in a small village near the Czech border have almost finished their one-of-a-kind winter project: A Catholic church built entirely out of snow.

Pirate Party leaders have confirmed that a number of applicants from North Rhine-Westphalia had been refused membership in the Pirate Party because of their known affiliation with Scientology.

Scientology, which calls itself a religion is not recognised as such in Germany, but is considered anti-constitutional and potentially subversive by authorities.

Pope Benedict XVI ended his first state visit to Germany in the sothwestern city of Freiburg on Sunday evening with a call for the Catholic Church to return to the roots.

At a meeting with Lutheran leaders Friday in the birthplace of protestantism, Pope Benedict rebuffed appeals for doctrinal change.

Pope Benedict XVI meets with representatives of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, after his speech in the German Bundestag, He is on a four-day official visit to his homeland Germany. Right is Robert Zollitsch, chairman of the German Bishop's Conference.

Pope Benedict XVI warned on Thursday Europe risked losing its cultural identity at a time when it was being challenged by foreign extremism, in a landmark yet controversial speech to the German parliament.

Pope Benedict XVI is returning home next month on his first state visit, but not everybody is happy, including Berlin’s openly gay mayor, Klaus Wowereit.

The Catholic Church in Germany plans to open up personnel files to researchers in a bid to facilitate an independent investigation into sexual abuse at Church-run institutions.

An anti-Nazi priest who was killed at the Dachau concentration camp has been beatified at a ceremony in Germany—the last formal step before possible sainthood.

The great interest in Pope Benedict XVI's upcoming visit to Germany stands in sharp contrast to claims that the Church is out of favor with the people. 

The embattled Scientology sect n Germany is facing problems with the authorites over the use of social networks like Facebook to recruit new members. 

A vast majority of Austrians oppose suggestions to ban crucifixes from classrooms, a survey shows, even though a large number of people have left the Roman-Catholic Church in 2010.  

University theologians in Germany have called on the Catholic Church to abandon the vow of celibacy for priests, open up the clergy for women and accept gays couples.

Some 140 Catholic theologians from Germany, Switzerland and Austria called for an end to celibacy as part of sweeping reforms in the wake of a sex scandal that rocked the Church.

A Bonduel, WI, teacher found a 340-year old bible in a small church. The 1,500-page holy book, a copy of Martin Luther's translation, was printed in Germany in 1670.

Archbishop Reinhard Marx of Munich said the Church must again actively spread the Christian faith and bring back those who left in the wake of widespread sexual abuses by Church institutions.

Pope Benedict XVI tried to rally loyalists against 'aggressive secularism' during a visit to the traditional Catholic stronghold of Spain. Photo: The Pope greeting King Juan Carlos.

German President Christian Wulff reiterated his earlier calls for more religious freedoms for Christians in Turkey following a religious ceremony at a church-turned museum in southern Turkey on Thursday.

Four German universities will soon train Muslim religious leadersGermany's mosques may no longer be led mainly by Turkish-trained imams.

A Berlin commercial building says more about integration in Germany than all political discussion together. As the tabloid BILD reports, the leases contain Islamic riders that prohibit certain types of businesses.

Who says Sharia law isn't applied in Germany? Chancellor Angela Merkel has made the claim, but German media say she's got it wrong.

Pax Christi, a Catholic peace group, has come out in support of the construction of further mosques with minarets, the group said.

More than 5,000 Orthodox Christians celebrated mass at a monastery in Turkey for the first time in 87 years Sunday, after receiving special permission from Ankara.

Muslim footballers will profit from a new fatwa, allowing them an exception to the strict fasting rules.

A married man was ordained as a Catholic priest in Regensburg this week in a rare exception to the church’s rules of celibacy for men of the cloth, the online newspaper The Local repored citing the diocese.

Jesus may not have have been crucified as there is no evidence to indicate that the Romans crucified prisoners 2,000 years ago.

Right-wing opinion leaders are up in arms as just two of the 200-odd students at a Vienna school are Roman Catholics.

Researchers from Kepler University in the Upper Austrian city of Linz said today Wednesday more than half of the clergy they spoke to backed the idea of putting an end to celibacy.

The German-Islam Conference opened in Berlin's historic building of the Deutsches Historisches Museum, but two of the four major groups that represent the country's Muslims refused to attend.

The people of Oberammergau,  a small village in southern Bavaria, opened the "Passion Play" last weekend. They have been doing this every 10 years since 1633.