RELIGIOUS EDUCATION IN GERMANY.
One of the alarming features in Germany at present is the collapse of religious teaching in its schools. The city of Bremen has abandoned, since January last, all pretenoe of public religious Instruction, and at Leipzig, though the law still requires an annual total of 666 lessons in religion, the schoolmasters there, have combined in refusing to give any at all. The clergy of Leipzig propose to undertake the task, but their number is inadequate for its due performance. Only two Lutheran churches have been added to tho original six existing at the time of the Reformation. Ono result of the territorial changes of the war has been to reduce the number of Roman Catholics in Germany from 37 to S 3 per cent. The eduoational difficulty is, of course, peculiarly a Protestant one. In. the Reichstag there are 193 professeed Protestants, as against 105 Roman Catholics, but 186 declare themselves to be without religious belief, eaya the "Church Chronicle."
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10966, 30 July 1921, Page 4
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164RELIGIOUS EDUCATION IN GERMANY. New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10966, 30 July 1921, Page 4
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