Martin Luther – a pious monk and fiery orator who became “The Great Reformer” – came from a humble, pastoral corner of ...

500 years ago, Martin Luther posted his 95 theses and marked the beginning of the Protestant Reformation. On Oct. 31, 1517, the monk nailed his theses to the door of his Catholic Church in Wittenberg, ...

WITTENBERG, Germany — For the world’s roughly 800 million Protestants, a small corner of eastern Germany is their spiritual home — a place that takes on added importance this year, the 500th ...

February 18 holds a special place in history. Martin Luther's death in 1546 sparked the Protestant Reformation. Mark Twain's 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' was published in 1885. The first Academy ...

Across Luther Country, from tiny Eisleben, where Luther was born in 1483 and died some 60 years later, to Erfurt, where he attended seminary, from Mansfeld, where Luther lived as a young boy, to ...

A sketch of groups of peasants wandering around the countryside during the German Peasants' War. Warwick Press via Wikimedia Commons. Five hundred years ago, in the winter of 1524-1525, bands of ...

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