Instead, nine of Germany's 16 states hold a public holiday to celebrate a special date in the protestant calendar known as Reformation Day. In 2024 October 31st falls on a Thursday. The public ...

The group was on a 10-day tour of Luther Country — sites in Germany that played an important role in the reformer’s life — conducted in June by St. Paul-Reformation Lutheran Church in St ...

A special religious service is being held in the German town of Wittenberg to mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. On this day, 31 October, in 1517, Martin Luther is said to have nailed ...

Five hundred years ago, an unknown monk named Martin Luther marched up to the church in Wittenberg, a small town in what is now Germany, and nailed a list of criticisms of the Catholic church to ...

It is also Reformation Day for Protestants. On that day in 1517, according to tradition, Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the church door in Wittenberg, Germany. The Reformation followed ...

Rhineland Palatinate and Saarland mark the Catholic holiday of All Saints’ Day on November 1st each year, whereas most other German states mark Reformation Day on October 31st (more on that below).

While Reformation Day is celebrated annually among some Protestants, especially in Germany, the nature of this anniversary has brought debate over Luther and the Protestant Reformation more ...

The 500th anniversary of Luther’s Protestant revolt against the Roman Catholic Church comes next year, pegged to the autumn day in 1517 ... and Reformation: German Art in the Age of Dürer ...

while for the Catholics it is Saint Stephen's Day. Where do these differences come from? In Germany, where the Reformation began, Protestants and Catholics were bound together in deep enmity for ...