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The Role of Religion in the Growth of Democracy in Germany

Over the next few weeks, Germany will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the peaceful revolution that re-unified the nation’s western and eastern halves and transformed the former Soviet-bloc German Democratic Republic into a free and democratic socie...

October 30, 2014

Do We Have a Duty to Live? — Heike Springhart

On November 29, 1981, a story in the Chicago Tribune proclaimed: “Hans Küng, one of the world’s most important religious figures, is hero for some and heretic to others.”...

May 29, 2014

FEMEN Activist Provokes Worshippers Celebrating the Provocative Birth of God -- Heike Springhart

It should have been a festive mass in one of the centers of Germany’s Catholicism....

January 16, 2014