While Christian congregations are dwindling across Germany, there was standing room only on Sunday 6 September for morning service at an evangelical Lutheran church in Berlin.
Across Germany there has been a wave of conversions of Muslim asylum seekers from Iran and Afghanistan. Some estimates put the number of baptisms at 12,000 out of the 35,000 Iranians in the country.
The number of conversions has prompted suggestions that many are simply trying to improve the chances of being accepted for asylum, given the well-documented persecution of Christians in their native countries.
