Across Germany, schools, student organisations and church groups have organised 'flashmobs' to launch "blessings from above" for Reformation Day.

A widespread “everyday atheism” requires a new understanding of what it means to be the church, according to Berlin theologian Dr Wolf Krötke.

Germany’s biggest Protestant gathering, the Kirchentag, has ended with a call for the country’s nuclear power plants to be phased out by 2017.

Environmental NGOs and energy campaigners around the world have welcomed a decision by the German government to phase out their country's nuclear energy.