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What the AfD’s victory means for German churches’ influence

WITTENBERG, Germany (RNS) — The Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) Party scored a pivotal victory for the far-right in Germany, an outcome churches fiercely fought to prevent. Their inability to stop it and the spread of the party’s anti-immigrant agenda expose a deeper rift in communities in which churches were a check on right-wing extremism.

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What the AfD’s victory means for German churches’ influence
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