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Christianity is the world's biggest religion, based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ in the first century AD. The monotheistic religion has more than two billion followers all over the world.

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A view of (L to R) Christian Lindner, Robert Habeck and Olaf Scholz during their joint press conference

German coalition reaches 2025 budget deal

The agreement ends weeks of difficult negotiations over the finances of Europe's largest economy.
PoliticsJuly 5, 202401:54 min
Christian Lindner, Olaf Scholz and Robert Habeck

Germany: Families gain more support in draft 2025 budget

A draft budget presented by leaders from Germany's ruling coalition includes higher benefits for families.
PoliticsJuly 5, 2024
A painting showing carpenters at work and a mother embracinga red-haired child.

What the earliest manuscript about Jesus' infancy reveals

A papyrus featuring a story about Jesus' childhood has triggered global fascination, but the gospel is not new.
ReligionJuly 1, 2024
DW Sendung Made in Germany

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India wants to become a leading industrial nation. So what ideas does the new government have?
BusinessJuly 1, 202405:25 min
Regional trains in Germany

Germany: Lindner puts price of 49-euro ticket up for debate

Germany's finance minister says the ticket may need to be more expensive if rail modernization plans are to go ahead.
Cars and TransportationJune 29, 2024
Former banker Christian Olearius

Germany: Charges against Cum-Ex banker dropped over health

The 82-year-old banker offered no admission of guilt and instead blasted the prosecutors at his court appearance.
CrimeJune 24, 2024
A Kanak is wearing a shirt in Kanaky's colors and holding a Kanaky flag

New Caledonia police arrest independence leader and 7 others

Independence leader Christian Tein was among those arrested in an early morning police operation.
CrimeJune 19, 2024
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EU vote in Germany sees far-right AfD in second place

The far-right Alternative for Germany party is on course to win the second biggest share of the EU vote in Germany.
PoliticsJune 10, 202402:19 min
DW Director General Peter Limbourg (left) stands next to Yulia Navalnaya (center left) as German Finance Minister Christian Lindner (R) and Director of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, Ivan Zhdanov (center right), look on

Yulia Navalnaya receives DW's Freedom of Speech Award

Speaking at a ceremony in Berlin, Alexei Navalny's widow said the fight against President Vladimir Putin would go on.
PoliticsJune 5, 202402:36 min
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Yulia Navalnaya: Free speech is our 'most important weapon'

Although Vladimir Putin killed her husband, Yulia Navalnaya said Russia's leader "didn't silence him and his ideas."
PoliticsJune 5, 2024
A man in glasses and a dark overcoat (German parliamentarian Roderich Kiesewetter of the CDU) looks into the camera

German lawmaker attacked amid spate of political violence

Roderich Kiesewetter, a Christian Democratic member of the German Bundestag was verbally and physically assaulted at a c
CrimeJune 1, 2024
The CDU logo at a party conference

Germany: Major hack targets center-right CDU party

The news comes just days before European Parliament elections. The Interior Ministry called the cyber attack "serious."
PoliticsJune 1, 2024
A church in 68 Quarter, Islamabad, Pakistan

Pakistan: Police intervene after mob attacks Christians

A crowd accused a Christian man of desecrating the Quran and burnt down his shoemaking factory in Sargodha, police said.
PoliticsMay 25, 2024
Congolese security forces secure the streets of Kinshasa after the army said it had foiled a coup.

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With six people dead, including the coup leader, questions are swirling about the attackers' motives.
PoliticsMay 21, 202402:19 min
Linton Maina of 1.FC Köln looks dejected after the team's defeat and relegation from the Bundesliga during the Bundesliga match between 1. FC Heidenheim 1846 and 1. FC Köln at Voith-Arena on May 18, 2024 in Heidenheim, Germany.

Bundesliga: Cologne relegated on last matchday of season

Cologne collapsed early in Heidenheim, losing 4-1 and sealing their fate in the process.
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Finance Minister Christian Lindner said it was clear that the public sector would have to tighten its belt.
PoliticsMay 16, 2024
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Christian Democrat leader Friedrich Merz is portraying himself as the tough, decisive leader Germany needs.
PoliticsMay 6, 202401:34 min
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BusinessMay 1, 202404:01 min
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Green methanol for container ships

A Berlin start-up wants to make green methanol cheaper for container ships.
BusinessMay 1, 202404:40 min
Microphones from various TV stations such as ZDF, RTL and NDR are placed in front of a wall with the blue, white and red logo of the Alternative for Germany (AfD).

Why German media's relationship with far right is difficult

How should Germany's traditional media deal with the far-right Alternative for Germany? Expose the party, or ignore it?
PoliticsApril 22, 2024
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Sweden has huge deposits of rare earths. Could the discovery reduce Europe’s dependence on China?
BusinessApril 17, 202405:59 min
Finance Minister Christian Lindner, Economy Minister Robert Habeck, and Chancellor Olaf Scholz (left to right)

Germany: What's holding Olaf Scholz's coalition together?

The German government coalition parties are arguing about everything, including Ukraine, but above all about money.
PoliticsApril 3, 2024
Bietigheim-Bissingen's Syrian Orthodox church seen from inside

Germany's Aramaic Christians seek support in their church

Some 120,000 Christians in Germany speak Aramaic, thought to be the language spoken by Jesus Christ.
ReligionMarch 29, 2024
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InnovationMarch 20, 202405:48 min
Christian Streich waves goodbye to fans

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A wooden cross lies on a Bible while a wooden crescent lies on a Quran

Religion in Africa: High tolerance for other faiths

Muslims and Christians in sub-Saharan Africa have a long history of religious tolerance, particularly in Sierra Leone.
ReligionMarch 12, 2024
Videostill of host George Okach standing in front of a collage of a painting of Jesus and a photo of a mosque

Ramadan and Lent share fasting, other similarities

Religious fasting is a spiritual practice that unites Muslims, Christians and many other faiths all over the world.
ReligionMarch 11, 202402:09 min
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Christian López from Toledo, Spain, sets one unusual world record after the other.
SportsMarch 10, 202404:44 min
Painting depicting Saint Thomas Aquinas by Antoni Viladomat (1678-1755) Catalonian painter in the Baroque style

A philosopher opposing eurocentrism and fake news

The writings of Christian philosopher St. Thomas Aquinas who died 750 years ago, reverberate to the present day.
ReligionMarch 10, 2024
Red Bull driver Max Verstappen of the Netherlands celebrates with Red Bull team principal Christian Horner after winning the Formula One Saudi Arabian Grand Prix at the Jeddah Corniche Circuit, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on March 9, 2024.

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Christian Wück

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Christian Wück will take charge after the 2024 Olympics. He led the male under-17 team to a World Cup win in 2023.
SportsMarch 8, 2024
St Patrick’s Cathedral Saddar, Karachi, Province of Sindh, Pakistan

Pakistan: Karachi's dwindling Goan Christian community

How did the Christian community in the Pakistani city of Karachi develop and why is it declining?
ReligionMarch 5, 2024
Gloved hands inspect a luxury watch

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Luxury watches are in demand. Some wear them while others hoard them for investing.
LifestyleFebruary 8, 202404:13 min
Olaf Scholz (r) and Robert Habeck listening to the debate on the 2024 budget

Budget woes: What can Germany still afford?

The controversial budget for 2024 is being debated in parliament this week.
PoliticsJanuary 30, 2024
Türkei Istanbul | Polizeieinheiten vor der Santa Maria Kirche

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The attack took place during Sunday service at the Italian Santa Maria Catholic Church in Istzanbul’s Sariyer district.
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Berlin Bauernprotest Traktoren

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In Germany, nationwide protests by farmers have ended with thousands of agriculture workers rallying in Berlin.
BusinessJanuary 15, 202402:27 min
Arturs Aukons starts swimming in a lake amidst pieces of ice.

Latvia: Orthodox Christians celebrate Christmas

DW has met with a family from the Latvian capital, Riga, that likes to spend Christmas out of town.
ReligionJanuary 6, 202402:19 min
Painting of the Three Wise Men, riding horses.

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The Cologne Cathedral is the home of the Shrine of the Three Kings. But how did the remains of the Magi get there?
ReligionJanuary 6, 2024
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The 77 Percent - The Magazine for Africa's Youth

From fraud scandals to even more sinister crimes: This week's show looks at the rise of false prophets across Africa.
SocietyDecember 27, 202326:05 min
An older woman dressed in black, wearing glasses, speaks next to an old stone wall

A Christian nun returns to her ancestral home in Turkey

For a long time, Syriac Orthodox Christians were religiously persecuted in Turkey.
ReligionDecember 19, 202328:35 min
People pray in a dark tent

Myanmar's Buddhists and Christians join fight against junta

DW spoke with Buddhists and Christians who said they had left civilian life to help free Myanmar from the junta's grip.
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St. Nicholas on a horse carriage in the snow.

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LifestyleDecember 6, 2023
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The German government's choice: Declare an emergency and borrow more money, or cut spending until something breaks?
PoliticsNovember 25, 2023
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SocietyNovember 25, 202326:06 min
Waheed Murad, caretaker of a church, holds a candle at an altar

Pakistan: A Muslim caretaker's century-long church legacy

In northern Pakistan, Waheed Murad offers an example of how different faiths can coexist in the Muslim-majority country.
SocietyNovember 24, 202301:33 min
Pope Francis during the final mass at the synod in St Peter's Basilica

World Synod: Catholic Church identifies areas for reform

After four weeks, an assembly of the world's bishops has come to an end at the Vatican.
ReligionOctober 30, 2023
An ambulance leaves the Zamra International Convention Center after an explosive device blew up during a prayer session of Jehovah's Witness faithful in Kalamassery, a town in Kochi, southern Kerala state, India

Blast kills 3 at Christian gathering in India

More than 2,000 people were at a Jehovah's Witnesses prayer meeting in Kerala when an explosion rocked the crowd.
CrimeOctober 30, 2023
German polid3 break up a demonstration being held in solidarity with victims of strikes on Gaza

Activists battle prejudices in divided Germany

The Hamas terror attacks and weeks of Israeli strikes on Gaza that have followed are dividing public opinion in Germany.
SocietyOctober 26, 202304:28 min
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The sanctions against Russia seem ineffective, at least as far as oil exports are concerned. Why?
ConflictsOctober 14, 202304:50 min
CSU flags flying against a cloudy sky

Bavaria's Christian Social Union: What you need to know

Bavarians are known for their local pride. The political expression of this is their own conservative party: the CSU.
PoliticsOctober 2, 2023