German bishops express burning concern over rise of AfD
January 26, 2024
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CWN Editor's Note: Bishop Georg Bätzing, the head of the German bishops’ conference, joined a public protest against Alternative for Germany (AfD), a political party that now holds 78 of the 796 seats in the German parliament.
Bishop Bätzing held a sign that said, “Our alternative is called respect and solidarity.”
“The background to the protests is the recently revealed secret meeting between leading AfD members and fascists and financiers in Potsdam, in which plans for the mass deportation of people after the AfD came to power were discussed,” Bätzing’s diocese, the Diocese of Limburg, said in a statement.
Bishops in southern and eastern Germany have also spoken out against the party.
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