According to tradition, it was on October 31st, 15...  ...the church in Wittenberg, Germany, and began the Protestant Reformation . The movement gave Europe Christian sects outside...  ...the idea of religious freedom was born out of the Reformation . But as the 500th anniversary of his protest appr...  ...f som...

The Catholic Church ruled both the spiritual and p...  ...e Holy Roman Empire. Then Martin Luther began the Protestant Reformation , leading to formation of the Lutheran Church. Oth...  ...s who shaped one of the strangest chapters in the Protestant Reformation , the cages have hung there for nearly 500 years.... &nb...