Crimes Against Churches and Christians in Germany On the Rise

Crimes against churches and Christians in Germany on the rise

Cologne Cathedral in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. / Credit: Rudolf Gehrig/CNA Deutsch Washington, D.C. Newsroom, May 23, 2025 / 09:00 am (CNA). Here is a roundup of Catholic world news that you might have missed this week:New statistics sho... [...]

Crimes Against Churches and Christians in Germany On the Rise

Rudolf Gehrig/CNA Deutsch Cologne Cathedral in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Crimes against religious communities also increased, reaching 8,531 in 2024, compared with 7,029 in 2023.

Berlin, 24 May 2025. Federal Minister of the Interior Dobrindt presented the BKA report on politically motivated crime in 2024 on 21 May. Since 2021, anti-German crimes have more than doubled (from 209 to 432), anti-Christian crimes have even tripled (from 109 to 337). To this end, the spokesman for human rights of the AfD Group in the German Bundestag, Rainer Rothfuß, states: "These figures reveal the devastating consequences of illegal mass im…