{"id":94590,"date":"2020-07-01T09:00:11","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T13:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=94590"},"modified":"2020-07-01T07:41:23","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T11:41:23","slug":"dw-religion-is-still-relevant-in-germany-even-as-churches-lose-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=94590","title":{"rendered":"(DW) Religion is still relevant in Germany even as churches lose members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Germany&#8217;s two major Christian churches both recorded a large drop in membership last year. This is a trend that has persisted for a long time, though in 2019, for a change, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/germany-catholic-church-sees-record-drop-in-membership\/a-53959392\">more Catholics left the church than Protestants<\/a>. Overall,more than 540,000 Christians turned their back on organized religion. Not since the early 1990s have membership numbers fallen so drastically.<\/p>\n<p>Just over half of all people living in Germany \u2014 43.3 million people, to be exact \u2014 are still members of either the Protestant or Catholic church. But that&#8217;s a decline of about 5 million compared to 10 years ago. Church membership is also falling because the number of church members dying far surpasses the number of baptisms.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/religion-in-germany-still-relevant\/a-53990602\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Opinion: Religion is still relevant as churches lose members <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vS91ErozU8\">https:\/\/t.co\/vS91ErozU8<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qvuZQzYO1z\">pic.twitter.com\/qvuZQzYO1z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 LearningIntheNet (@NetInthe) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NetInthe\/status\/1277709311137812481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 29, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany&#8217;s two major Christian churches both recorded a large drop in membership last year. This is a trend that has persisted for a long time, though in 2019, for a change, more Catholics left the church than Protestants. Overall,more than<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=94590\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[478,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-germany","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94590"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94593,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94590\/revisions\/94593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}