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Luther goes so far as to justify the actions of the Princes against the peasants, even when it involves acts of violence. He feels that they can be punished by the lords on the basis that they have "become faithless, perjured, disobedient, rebellious, murderers, robbers, and blasphemers, whom even a heathen ruler has the right and authority to ...
The Memorial Church, consecrated in 1904, commemorates the Protestation at Speyer.. On 19 April 1529, six princes and representatives of 14 Imperial Free Cities petitioned the Imperial Diet at Speyer against an imperial ban of Martin Luther, as well as the proscription of his works and teachings, and called for the unhindered spread of the evangelical faith.
Violent protests also occurred in the country's second largest city Bobo-Dioulasso, [8] including the toppling of statues [1] and the local CDP headquarters, [12] and in Ouahigouya, in the north. [15] Ouagadougou airport was closed and all arriving and departing flights were canceled until further notice. [17] Many MPs also fled to an unnamed ...
Sectarian violence among Christians was common, especially during late antiquity, and the years surrounding the Protestant Reformation, in which the German monk Martin Luther disputed some of the Catholic Church's practices; particularly the doctrine of Indulgences, and it was crucial in the formation of a new sect of Christianity known as ...
Despite being a revered leader of the civil rights movement, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was actually conflict avoidant, says biographer Jonathan Eig. In an interview published by NPR’s Book of ...
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern Africa is a Lutheran church in South Africa. The church has 580,000 baptized members [ 2 ] in seven dioceses in South Africa, Botswana , and Eswatini , and is (by a wide margin) the largest Lutheran church in the southern African region.
Human rights are "rights one has simply because one is a human being." [3] These privileges and civil liberties are innate in every person without prejudice and where ethnicity, place of abode, gender, cultural origin, skin color, religious affiliation, or language including sexual orientation do not matter.
Two decades before, Kim had joined protests in Washington, D.C., calling for the World Bank to be shut down altogether for valuing indicators like economic growth over assistance to poor people. Human rights advocates and bank staffers working on safeguards hoped that Kim’s appointment would signal a shift toward greater protections for ...