German Elections: in Saxony-Anhalt, the Far Right Wants to Attack the "Privileges" of the Churches
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The German Church finds itself faced with a question that goes far beyond the electoral result of Saxony-Anhalt: because many Catholics voted AfD despite months of appeals, taken ...
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It was in Dessau, in May 1932, the capital of the state of Anhalt, that the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) first won a regional presidency in the Weimar Republic. His name, Alfred Freyberg, has faded into obscurity. What has not been forgotten is what followed his electoral victory: the collapse of German democracy. In less than a year, the Nazi party repeated the feat at the national level, and in January 1933, Adolf Hitler wa…
The news The Churches of Germany, concerned about the return to power of the extreme right 80 years after the fall of Nazism, was first published in Last-Minute Religious News | New Life For the first time since the fall of Nazism, the extreme right is about to govern a state in Germany. This is Saxony-Anhalt, belonging to the former Eastern Bloc. After yesterday's elections, Sunday, September 6, Alternative for Germany (AfD) is close to an abso…
Alternative for Germany (AfD) wins but does not get an absolute majority in the Regional Parliament.The Catholic Church's reflections and fears of racist and nationalist policies The article German Elections: in Saxony the extreme right populists triumph comes from RomeSette.
The AfD's historic result in the Saxony-Anhalt parliamentary elections may herald an escalation of the party's dispute with the Catholic and Evangelical Churches. Ulrich Siegmund's party won approximately 44 percent of the vote and has announced plans to undermine some of the financing mechanisms for churches, including the state collection of church taxes and so-called state benefits, writes Antoine Nisson on the Tribunne Chrétienne website. Th…
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