WITTENBERG, Germany — During the communist era, East German officials downplayed this quiet town’s links to Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation; instead they emphasized the importance ...

Martin Marty, Lutheran pastor, retired University of Chicago professor, author, has a new a book on Martin Luther’s “95 Theses” as 500th anniversary approaches, believes that a new ...

WITTENBERG, Germany -- A grinning Nancy Monke posed for photos at the legendary church doors where Martin Luther blasted the Catholic Church and unleashed the Protestant Reformation. The Minnesota ...

It was Luther's adherence to the Gospels that is his lasting legacy, along with the people his messages have touched, Rasmussen said. There were times when Luther went too far and Lutheran ...

He was an Augustinian monk, a deeply spiritual priest and university professor who entered St. Augustine's Monastery in Erfurt, Germany, at 21 years of age.

In Martin Luther's Church the Pastor Asks: ... on Sundays up to 1,000 joined the regulars at Pastor Block's unadorned Lutheran shrine. "Luther is to Wittenberg what Mozart is to Salzburg," he said.

DR. MARTIN LUTHER EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH, LCA was founded by Slovak (see SLOVAKS) immigrants on the near west side in 1910.Pastored from 1929-58 by Rev. Matthew Benko, president of the Slovak ...

A celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. through music was held Sunday.The celebration aimed to remember King's legacy of love, equality and faith.People packed Saint Matthew Lutheran Church on ...