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 ...

"Here I stand, I can do no other, God help me, Amen..." (Martin Luther) When an obscure monk named Martin Luther nailed 95 Theses - 95 stinging rebukes - attacking the mighty Catholic Church, and ...

The first of all these modern centenary celebrations seems to have been organised in Germany, in Saxony in ... In 1517, the story goes, Martin Luther picked up a hammer and nailed what was ...

In 1502 he founded the University of Wittenberg where Martin Luther taught. During Luther's lifetime Wittenberg was the home and intellectual centre of the reformation movement of which the ...