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James Lipscomb, in front of the Central Lutheran Church in Minneapolis, was laid off from publisher Augsburg Fortress and his pension cut 30%. Employees and retirees of Minneapolis publisher Augsburg ...

(RNS) The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America says it is "deeply concerned" for the welfare of employees who are suing its publishing arm over the termination of their pension plan. ...

Archbishop of Munich Reinhard Marx and the auxiliary bishop of Augsburg, Anton Losinger, were also scheduled to participate in the talks. The Vatican did not immediately provide further details on ...

Former employees of Augsburg Fortress Publishers are suing the company, saying that the Minneapolis-based publishing arm of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America destroyed their retirement fund over a nine-year ...

Losinger is widely expected to take over the diocese of Augsburg if Mixa's departure is finalized. The office only said the meeting with the pope was about Mixa. Facing media ...

Berlin - One of Germany's top bishops tendered his resignation to Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday after admitting hitting children, saying he hoped his actions would allow a "new start" ...

Three weeks after five former residents of a Catholic children’s home accused Bishop Walter Mixa of Augsburg of physically abusing them in the 1970s and 1980s, the prelate offered an ...

Walter Mixa, bishop of Augsburg in Germany, has sent his resignation to Pope Benedict XVI, offering to quit to allow a "new start" for his diocese, the Augsburg diocese said. ...

THE SLOW-MOTION TRAIN wreck of the Catholic Church in Germany picked up speed last night when Walter Mixa , the outspoken and influential Bishop of Augsburg and Germany’s chief military ...

German Bishop Walter Mixa has resigned amid charges that he physically abused teenagers at an orphanage. Mixa wrote to the pope after the head of German bishops' conference called on ...