In Villach, Austria, a 14-year-old Austrian boy was killed Saturday, Feb. 15, by a 23-year-old Syrian asylum seeker in what ...

At the end of January, the center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU), its Bavarian ally the Christian Social Union (CSU), the neoliberal Free Democratic Party (FDP) and the far-right Alternative ...

Interview. Bishop Anders Arborelius, Sweden’s first cardinal, discusses the Catholic Church’s surprising growth in a ...

An 80-year firewall has been shattered as the centre-right offers to team up with the far-right AfD to pass tougher ...

Vance is right that we have positive duties to those closest to us and to harbor ill will or feel resentment toward them is ...

To Michael Hirsch, the desecration of hundreds of graves was a shanda, a shame, a ghoulish crime. He wanted to do something ...

I come here today not just with an observation but with an offer,” Vice President JD Vance said in a speech to hundreds of ...

Even if Merz stumbles across the finish line and secures a coalition government, the death knell for Christian democracy may ...

Since the fall of Nazism, said Samira El Ouassil in Der Spiegel (Hamburg), Germany's main political ... interventions from the Protestant and Catholic Churches, and from Merz's predecessor as ...

For a city home, the house is rich with outdoor spaces. In addition to the front porch and a 15-by-10-foot-balcony off the ...

I think of religion the way I think of marriage: a great idea in theory, but in practice, it’s another matter.

Friedrich Merz, the leader of Germany's CDU/CSU conservative ... opens new tab to Christian churches, with the Catholic and Protestant denominations represented in nearly equal proportions.