German authorities say police and prosecutors have searching Catholic Church properties in connection with a probe of the archbishop of Cologne over perjury allegations.

Some 44,772 Catholics in the Cologne archdiocese left in 2021, up from 17,281 in 2020, according to church figures. Nationally, the number of Catholics leaving the church has also risen dramatically.

What To Know. Woelki has long been a divisive figure in the church amid criticism of his handling of sexual abuse cases in the archdiocese of Cologne.. In September 2021, Pope Francis decided to ...

In June, the Archdiocese of Cologne was ordered to pay €300,00 (S$444,000) in damages by a German regional court over sex abuse cases. More On This Topic Spain’s Catholic Church finds hundreds ...

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In 2017, archeologists were conducting an excavation on the grounds of a Protestant church located in the center of Cologne, Germany when they discovered ancient walls lying beneath the church.

Cologne Cathedral is a High Gothic five-aisled basilica (144.5 m long), with a projecting transept (86.25 m wide) and a tower façade ... believed to be the largest in any Christian church, the carved ...

BERLIN — German police and prosecutors searched Catholic Church properties on Tuesday in connection with a probe of the archbishop of Cologne in western Germany over perjury allegations ...