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Escape tunnel: Secret passageway under Berlin Wall opens to public

BERLIN – An escape tunnel underneath the Berlin Wall opened to the public this month for the first time amid celebrations of the 30-year anniversary of the opening of communist East Germany’...

DATE: Nov 15, 2019 | CATEGORY: Travel

Global debate gets underway over married Catholic priests

BERLIN – Germany’s Catholics reacted enthusiastically when bishops from across the Amazon called for the ordination of married men as priests to address the clergy shortage in that region. S...

DATE: Nov 11, 2019 | CATEGORY: Religion

Jewish students remember ‘Night of Broken Glass’ in Berlin

BERLIN – Jewish students in Berlin on Wednesday marked the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the “Night of Broken Glass,” when Nazis terrorized Jews throughout Germany and Austria. ...

DATE: Nov 7, 2018 | CATEGORY: Religion

Huge wildfire southwest of Berlin sets off WWII ammunition

BERLIN – Firefighters struggled Friday to tame a wildfire southwest of Berlin but had to maneuver carefully as the blaze set off old World War II ammunition that is still buried in the fores...

DATE: Aug 24, 2018 | CATEGORY: Travel

Christians in Western Europe less tolerant of immigrants

Survey polled residents in 15 countries about migrants, Muslims and Jews

DATE: Jun 2, 2018 | CATEGORY: Religion

Europe’s Muslim population to grow, migration or not, study says

BERLIN – Europe’s Muslim population will continue to grow over the next several decades even if all immigration to the continent should stop, according to a study published Thursday. ...

DATE: Dec 5, 2017 | CATEGORY: Religion

Truck rams German Christmas market, killing at least 9

BERLIN – A truck rammed into a crowded Christmas market in central Berlin on Monday evening, killing at least nine people as it tore through tables and wooden stands. Many others were injure...

DATE: Dec 19, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Syrian refugees offer tours of Berlin

Tours illuminate migrants’ experience in German city

DATE: Oct 22, 2016 | CATEGORY: Travel

When East becomes West

Cities’ economies have diverged since Berlin Wall fell

DATE: Nov 8, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

European ministers fear rise of anti-Semitism

BERLIN – The foreign ministers of Germany, France and Italy on Tuesday condemned the rise in anti-Semitic protests and violence over the conflict in Gaza, saying they will do everything poss...

DATE: Jul 22, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Germany starts ID’ing Munich art found online

BERLIN – Bowing to pressure from Jewish groups and art experts, the German government made public details of paintings in a recovered trove of some 1,400 pieces of art, many of which may hav...

DATE: Nov 10, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World