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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]With APIA we've also seen some German girls that list heavy involvement with churches in their experience - they seem to be from southern Germany, so the more Catholic parts of Bavaria.  Due to past personal baggage with a rematch from that area we don't recruit from that area (totally only a personal issue for our family) but it may work out great for you.[/quote]

As a PP wrote, just listing going to church a lot doesn't necessarily mean anything in some parts of the world.  Our past two APs and upcoming one all listed weekly attendance at their Catholic churches, but when probed, none had any real commitment to the religion; their involvement was very social.  This actually was important to us - we DON'T want religious APs because we aren't religious at all - and specifically we do not agree with many of the preachings of the Catholic church on things like gay marriage, abortion, and questions of gender equity, so someone who was very firmly a believer in the Church's preachings wouldn't be a good fit for our family.  My recommendation to OP is to ask lots of questions about faith and include something in the "dear AP" letter about the importance of faith and Christian beliefs, so that she can be clear for APs and prompt them to be clear for her whether their weekly attendance actually MEANS anything.  In many places, it's simply the norm to go weekly and to run a Church youth group when you reach a certain age but doesn't say anything about belief, so OP should carefully screen for this the way some families screen for the opposite.[/quote]

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