Germany - Christianity is in rapid decline.
Munich, Germany. thinking about the newest statistics about Christianity in Germany. According to the numbers, Christianity is in rapid decline. The country where the Reformation began five hundred years ago will soon have a majority of the population who don’t call themselves Christians. Even seventy years ago in a post–World War II Germany, 95 per cent of the people were members either of the Roman Catholic Church or of a Protestant church. Just in 2018, the Protestant state churches lost another 2 per cent of their members. But even more alarming is that of members of the Protestant state churches, an average of only 3.4 per cent attends a church service on any given Sunday, which amounts to less than 1 per cent of the population in Germany. The number of Christians in free (non-state) churches continues to be negligible. Even more alarming is the trend toward liberalism in nearly all denominations. At times, it seems as if preaching the gospel in Germany is a waste o