Kulturkampf adalah penindasan umat Katolik di Jerman pada akhir abad ke-19.[1] Gerakan ini dilakukan oleh Otto von Bismarck yang takut pada pengaruh gerejaKatolik Roma yang akan memecah belah kesatuan Kekaisaran Jerman.[2] Para Yesuit diusir keluar Jerman dan sekolah-sekolah gereja dinegerikan.[2] Ada beberapa uskup dan kardinal yang dipenjarakan, Gereja Katolik Roma kehilangan semua bantuan finansial dari pemerintah dan semua anggota serikat diusir dari Jerman.[2] Tetapi ketika Bismarck ingin mengalahkan Partai Sosial Demokrasi ia justru meminta bantuan dari Gereja Katolik Roma, dan hal ini menyebabkan adanya perdamaian dengan Paus Leo XIII.[2] Pada tahun 1887, peraturan yang melawan Gereja Katolik Roma dihapuskan, tetapi serikat Yesuit tetap diusir.[2]
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