{"id":25729,"date":"2025-05-03T04:25:59","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T11:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=25729"},"modified":"2025-05-03T04:25:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T11:25:59","slug":"religiously-unaffiliated-now-outnumber-catholics-and-protestants-in-germany-survey-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/religiously-unaffiliated-now-outnumber-catholics-and-protestants-in-germany-survey-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Religiously unaffiliated now outnumber Catholics and Protestants in Germany, survey finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in modern German history, more Germans identify as religiously unaffiliated than as Roman Catholics or Protestants, according to a new survey published by the Weltanschauungen research group (Fowid) and reported by Evangelical Focus.<\/p>\n<p>The 2024 data reveal that 47% of Germany\u2019s population\u2014an estimated 39 million people\u2014now consider themselves to have no religious affiliation. In contrast, the combined number of Protestants and Roman Catholics stands at 38 million, or 45% of the population.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christiandaily.com\/news\/religiously-unaffiliated-now-outnumber-catholics-and-protestants-in-germany-survey-finds\">christiandaily.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in modern German history, more Germans identify as religiously unaffiliated than as Roman Catholics or Protestants, according to a new survey published by the Weltanschauungen research group (Fowid) and reported by Evangelical Focus. The 2024 data reveal that 47% of Germany\u2019s population\u2014an estimated 39 million people\u2014now consider themselves to have no &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/religiously-unaffiliated-now-outnumber-catholics-and-protestants-in-germany-survey-finds\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Religiously unaffiliated now outnumber Catholics and Protestants in Germany, survey finds<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21348,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/white_horse_blog-300x100-300x100-1.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-6GZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25730,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25729\/revisions\/25730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}