Eight hundred miniature figures of Martin Luther on display in the central market square of Wittenberg, where he lived and worked, are causing offence.
800 miniature figures of the 16th-century Protestant Reformer Martin Luther will soon be on display on the central market square where he lived and worked.
A Protestant bishop speaking on the 450th anniversary of the death of a close collaborator of Martin Luther has re-opened debate on papal primacy and relations with Catholics.
An international expert on church unity has urged the Roman Catholic Church to declare officially that its longstanding excommunication of Martin Luther no longer applies.
Churches throughout the world are going to be asked to sponsor trees in a special "Luther Garden" in Wittenberg, in eastern Germany, in order to mark the 500th anniversary in 2017 of Martin Luther's Protestant Reformation.