Well....yes. It may come to a shock to some non-Germans, but the way that church funding is accomplished....is via a deduction of you paycheck (a church tax). You mark on a form if you are Catholic, or Lutheran. If you want to 'quit' and not pay the tax....that's fine, but you get no services then (no funeral, no baptismal, no church wedding, etc).
So since the Coronavirus started up....a lot of people are not working, and their income is based on either unemployment (they got laid off) or short-time work (they are making 65-percent of their normal check via the government).
What ARD (public TV, Channel One) is saying this morning is that the combined loss of church funding is now around ONE billion Euro at this point. For the entire 2020 season? No one says much but I might go up to two to three billion Euro on the shortfall list by the end of the year.
Cutting on the budget? More than likely.
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