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With the decline of Christianity in the late 20th and early 21st century, accentuated in the east by the official atheism of the former German Democratic Republic, the northeastern states of Germany are now mostly not religious (70%), with many of the people living there being agnostics and atheists.
- Religions in Germany
- Peaceful Coexistence
- Religion and Foreign Policy
84 percent of the world’s population belong to a religion – a percentage that is rising all the time. The opposite trend can be observed in Germany, however, where fewer and fewer people feel tied to a religion. In a survey, almost 80 percent of young peoplesaid that they could live without a religious faith. While one in two people in Germany stil...
Germany’s basic law guarantees freedom of religion for all. The state takes a neutral and tolerant approach towards all religions. Whether people adopt a religion and join a religious community is a personal decision. All the same, the state and religion are not strictly separated in Germany. The state works together with religious communities and ...
For some years now, German foreign policy has been open to impetus from civil society. With a view to strengthening the constructive, peace-promoting potentialof religious communities, the Federal Foreign Office is building up an international and interreligious network of religious representatives.
- Sarah Kanning
- Religions in Germany. In Germany, people can freely practice their faiths, regardless of which religion they belong to. Religion and state are separate. About every second person in Germany is a Christian.
- Separation of state and religion. The German state has committed itself in its constitution to treat religions and worldviews neutrally. It must not identify itself with any religious or ideological denomination.
- Holidays and religious education. “Constructive neutrality” means that the state and religions work in partnership in many areas. The state participates financially in hospitals and social institutions that are supported by religious communities.
- Church tax. Germany is one of the few countries in the world to levy a church tax. This is how the churches finance their spending on the community. The tax offices collect the tax for the churches from their members.
PHOTO © Hyde Flippo. A little over 60 percent of Germans identify as Christians, with the two main Christian churches, the Catholics ( die Katholiken) and the Protestants (mostly Lutherans, die Evangelischen ), at about 30 percent each. However, certain geographic areas of Germany tend to have more Catholics or Protestants.
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Religion of Germany. The Reformation initiated by Martin Luther in 1517 divided German Christians between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism.
Dec 6, 2017 · The German state has to adhere to the principle of state neutrality, meaning the state is in general neither allowed to favor nor to discriminate against certain confessions and cannot define what constitutes a religion or religious behavior.
4 days ago · Officially: Federal Republic of Germany. German: Deutschland or Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Head Of Government: Chancellor: Olaf Scholz. Capital: Berlin 3. Population: (2024 est.) 86,303,000. Currency Exchange Rate: 1 USD equals 0.932 euro. Head Of State: President: Frank-Walter Steinmeier. Recent News.
