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German Chancellor Angela Merkel

German civil unions gain marriage tax benefit

Marriage | Germany’s top court handed down a ruling today giving same-sex civil unions the same tax exemptions as heterosexual marriages. The Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe said that treating civil unions…

SEEKING SANCTUARY: Daniel, Joshua, Christian, Lydia, Uwe, Damaris, Hannelore, and Sarah Romeike (from left).
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Schools of thought

Homeschooling |  The German government harasses and persecutes that country’s few homeschoolers. A German homeschooling family’s fight for asylum in the United States will…

German Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich

Germany outlaws Islamic extremism

Religion |  In a move against terror and extremism, German authorities banned three ultraconservative Islamic groups Wednesday and later announced they had thwarted a…

Uwe Romeike, center, teaching two of his children in 2009.

German family gets day in U.S. court

Homeschooling |  The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of appeals agreed this week to hear the case of a Christian family from Germany seeking asylum in the U.S.  Uwe and Hannelore…

The Romeike family

Christian homeschoolers losing deportation fight

Homeschooling |  A family homeschooling safely in rural Tennessee may be forced to return to their native Germany, where the parents likely face huge fines and criminal…

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Melissa's gumption

Germany |  A homeschooler defies Germany's strict compulsory school laws

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Hurricane Schroeder

Germany |  Creating a storm of anti-Americanism, the newly reelected German chancellor must now ride out his rift with the Bush administration-and with his own party

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