BERLIN — Top prelate Karl Juesten says the German Bishops Conference will lead an investigation into growing claims of abuse at Catholic institutions in Pope Benedict XVI’s homeland of Germany.
A teenage acquaintance who lives nearby calls it the “dog statue” because his Reichshund seems to be given equal prominence with the founder of a unified German state. Sure Bismarck was a war leader; but so was Abe Lincoln. …
Germany’s Finance Minister is calling for the creation of a European equivalent to the International Monetary Fund to be better positioned to deal with situations like the Greek debt crisis.
Local Afghan officials say militants have attacked a German military patrol, injuring a soldier and his interpreter. The German soldiers were taking part in a vehicle-mounted patrol in Chardarah distr.
German prosecutors have raided a Benedictine monastic school in Bavaria amid investigations into the child sex abuse in Roman Catholic institutions in Germany. The boarding school in the Bavarian town.
Greece should sell some of its uninhabited islands to raise cash to avoid bankruptcy, two German parliamentarians from Chancellor Angela Merkel’s centre-right coalition suggested on Thursday. “The Greek state must sell stakes in …
Germany’s parliamentary commissioner for the armed forces, MP Reinhold Robbe, says that there are widespread reports of abuse and degrading treatment in the German military. This week Robbe presented.