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Last week, Germany’s Schleswig-Holstein state parliament voted with a two-third’s majority to exclude mentions of God in the new constitution, becoming the seventh state in Germany (out of 16) to do so. Photo by Johannes Utzolino, courtesy of the government of Schleswig-Holstein
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(RNS1-oct14) Last week, Germany’s Schleswig-Holstein state parliament voted with a two-third’s majority to exclude mentions of God in the new constitution, becoming the seventh state in Germany (out of 16) to do so. For use with RNS-GERMANY-GOD, transmitted on October 14, 2014, Photo by Johannes Utzolino.

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