Five hundred years ago this month, Martin Luther set out to challenge his church and ended up starting what would become known as the Protestant Reformation. On Oct. 31, 1517, Luther, then an ...

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, ...

Every schoolboy thinks he knows how the Reformation began: on Oct. 31, 1517, Augustinian Friar Martin Luther took hammer in hand and nailed his list of 95 angry theses on the door of the Castle Church ...

LUND, Sweden (AP) — Pope Francis is heading to secular Sweden to mark the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, a remarkably bold gesture given his very own Jesuit religious order was ...

In “Summer of Fire and Blood,” Lyndal Roper tells the story of the serfs who fought for a better life and the elites who co-opted their movement. By Thomas Meaney Martin Puchner’s “The Language of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A sketch of groups of peasants wandering around the countryside during the German Peasants' War. Warwick Press via Wikimedia ...