More than 400,000 people have left the Catholic Church in Germany

More than 400,000 people have left the Catholic Church in Germany

Over 400,000 people have left the Catholic Church in Germany in the past year.

The exact number was 402,694, as the German Bishops' Conference announced on Thursday in Bonn. The number of departures was, however, below the level of the previous year 2022, when, according to the Bishops' Conference, more than 520,000 people left.

1. More people in Germany left the Catholic Church this year compared to the previous year, with a total of 402,694 departures announced by the German Bishops' Conference in Bonn.
2. In the past year, the Church in Germany faced a significant decline as over 400,000 people chose to leave the institution.
3. The overall number of people leaving the Church in Germany during the current year was less than the previous year, with around 120,000 fewer departures recorded in 2023.

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