- Wednesday
- May 31st, 2023
This is the aim of a joint motion that the traffic light coalition and the opposition CDU/CSU parliamentary group submitted to the Bundestag in the evening. They are advertising a memorial sculpture with information boards...
After the killing spree in a community of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Hamburg, the police are now investigating one of their own officials: Disciplinary proceedings were opened against an employee of the weapons authority on Tuesday....
In a brightly lit hall on an industrial estate, rows of empty chairs are arranged in front of a plain wooden lectern. [caption id="attachment_6699" align="aligncenter" width="976"] "We pray together, we cry together," says community representative...
A gunman attacked a service held by his former congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses at their worship hall on Thursday night, killing six people and injuring eight before taking his own life in the northern German...
A fatal shooting at a Jehovah's Witness event in Hamburg has shocked Germany. What does the religious community stand for? A Jehovah's Witnesses Kingdom Hall in Hamburg became a horrific crime scene Thursday night when several people were...
he gunman who opened fire inside a Jehovah's witness hall in Germany before taking his own life has been identified - as it emerged an unborn baby was among his victims. According to German outlets,...
The death toll from Thursday night's attack on a place of worship of Jehovah's Witnesses in Hamburg, northern Germany , has risen to eight . The perpetrator is among the dead, while some of the...
Today, the world marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a symbolic date to commemorate the victims of Nazism. [caption id="attachment_6640" align="aligncenter" width="1500"] On Jan. 27, the world will mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a symbolic date...
In June 1942, Judith Hochegger sat in a German jail cell, hours from her execution. Her situation looked hopeless. Her “crime” was following a religion that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler didn’t like – the Jehovah’s...
The archive documents the lives and suffering of the Kusserow family, who were among many from the religious group to be persecuted by the Nazis because of their faith. [caption id="attachment_6019" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] The Kusserow...
SELTERS, Germany—On the morning of May 19, 2017, the municipality of Techelsberg, Austria, held a ceremony in remembrance of Jehovah’s Witnesses who were executed or imprisoned in concentration camps by the Nazis. A memorial plaque...
In April 2012, seven-year-old Vivienne Falcone brought a note from her parents to the principal’s office, asking that she be excused from school for one day. Her family planned to attend an annual, three-day religious convention...
SELTERS, Germany—A monument honoring the late Max Liebster, one of Jehovah’s Witnesses who endured over five years of imprisonment in Nazi concentration camps, was publicly dedicated on June 21, 2013, in Lautertal-Reichenbach. The mayor and other...
SELTERS, Germany—Mathilde Hartl, one of Jehovah’s Witnesses, was presented the Order of Merit on February 22, 2013, by the Prime Minister of Bavaria, Horst Seehofer. The Order of Merit is the highest tribute the Federal...