The sun deity Beaivi withholds her rays in October, particularly in northern Norway, where in 1674, a beggar named Kirsten Iversdatter was bound to the stake. She had been accused of witchcraft, not ...
On October 31 in Lund, Sweden, Pope Francis will take part in a commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation—a year before the official anniversary in 2017. That a pope would ...
What to call the movement of Christians that broke full communion with the Catholic Church? In the English-speaking world, the “Reformation” has been the common term. Even many Catholics use it, ...
This story appears in the Reformation turns 500 feature series. View the full series. A woodcut from a 1568 Protestant pamphlet shows Martin Luther and other Protestants withstand attacks from the ...
The 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, a signal event in the history of Western civilization, will be marked on Oct. 31, 2017. A year-long commemoration began on Oct. 31, 2016, spawning ...
Pope Benedict XVI embraces with Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, left, in London’s Westminster Abbey during an evening prayer service in September 2010. (Richard Pohle/WPA Pool/Getty Images) ...
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