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THE NUMBER OF BELIEVERS IS FALLING The Germans are raising their hands from Christianity? More than half a million people have left the church in 2 years The Catholic Church in Germany has 272,771 fewer believers than in the previous 2018. That is 22 percent more than the previous year Author: HinaPosted: June 26, 2020 5:24 pm Illustration, church Illustration, church Thomas Lohnes / Getty images Facebook Twitter Messenger E-mail RELATED NEWS 8069891 NEW FOCUS In the convent of 180 sisters with an average age of 70: 'We may have had some meetings ...' LARGE FOCUS Terrible living conditions of workers from Eastern Europe discovered in the corona slaughterhouse: Garbage, stench ... A record number of believers, over half a million, left two Christian churches in Germany last year, the Catholic Church and the Protestant Church said on Friday. "The Catholic Church in Germany has 272,771 fewer believers than in the previous 2018. That is 22 percent more outings than the previous year, "the German Bishops' Conference in Bonn announced. At the same time, the Protestant Church in Germany in Hanover announced that in 2019 it has 270,000 fewer members than the previous year. In total, in Germany, one of the two main Christian churches currently has about 43 million citizens, out of 83 million in Germany. That's about five million less than in 2012. Representatives of both churches expressed their desire for the mass departure of believers from the ranks of the church and as one of the reasons pointed out the need for change within the church. "These numbers are bothering us. The church must change and it is already doing so, "said Heinrich Bedford-Strohm , president of the Council of the German Protestant Church . The president of the German Bishops' Conference, Georg Baetzing , said that the departure of the faithful from the ranks of the church "cannot be embellished with any words" and that "courageous changes" are needed to stop the process of the departure of the faithful. Church law expert Thomas Schueller told the German news agency that the process of leaving the church also takes place in years when there have been no scandals involving the sexual harassment of minors. "The Catholic Church is losing its appeal even without scandal," Schoeller said. He stressed that women in particular are leaving the church disappointed with their "unwillingness to change". According to the 2018 Institute of Worldviews, the largest group in terms of religious affiliation was made up of people without a religion, 31 million of them, which makes up 37 percent of the population. Experts believe that the church tax is one of the reasons for officially resigning from the ranks of the church. Members of the two largest churches, the Catholic and the Protestant, pay a church tax in Germany that is nine percent of income tax. The German Catholic Church collected 6.7 billion euros from the church tax in 2018, and the Protestant Church 5.8 billion