Events that occurred this week in Christian history include the battle of Hattin, an opponent of Martin Luther being made a ...

Martin Luther King and Coretta Scott King. Discover how their relationship, rooted in respect and commitment, strengthened the civil rights movement. Expert opinions and untold details.

Martin Luther, a German monk, played a central role in this movement by rejecting Catholic doctrines such as indulgences, papal supremacy, and the authority of Church tradition.

Celebrating King’s legacy of social and environmental justice On Monday, Jan. 20, the Yale Peabody Museum, the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, and the New Haven Museum ...

By the fall of 1506 he had gained full admission to the order. Luther continued his theological education after becoming a monk. In 1507 he was ordained by the Bishop of Brandenburg.

Religious rebel A quick history lesson: Martin Luther was a Catholic monk who emerged as an outspoken critic of the practice of selling "indulgences" — the pardoning of people's sins so they ...

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with Thich Nhat Hanh at a news conference in Chicago in 1966. Dr. King nominated him for a Nobel Peace Prize the next year. Edward Kitch/Associated Press ...

Martin Luther King Jr. considered Nhất Hạnh a friend and nominated him for the 1967 Nobel Peace Prize. Years later, Oprah Winfrey interviewed him, saying he had deeply influenced her thinking.

CHICAGO (RNS) — It has been more than 500 years since German monk Martin Luther’s words went viral, thanks to what was then some cutting-edge technology.

Martin Luther King Jr. was born 90 years ago, on Jan. 15, 1929. But the name on his original birth certificate — filed April 12, 1934, five years after King was born — was not Martin.