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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was only 25 when he helped organize the Montgomery Bus Boycott and was soon organizing black people across the country in support of the right to vote, desegregation, and other basic civil rights. Maintaining nonviolent and peaceful tactics even when his life was...

Theodore Roosevelt proved that a political figure could also excel in military matters and literary endeavors. This work covers a most interesting list of heroes in American history, from Daniel Boone and George Rogers Clark through various Revolutionary War participants, to activities during...

Joan of Arc was born in a small French village during the worst period of the Hundred Years' War. For generations, France had been besieged by the British. At age 11, Joan began to see religious visions telling her to join forces with the King of France. By the time she was a teenager, she was...

Marion Blumenthal Lazan's unforgettable memoir recalls the devastating years that shaped her childhood. Following Hitler's rise to power, the Blumenthal family - father, mother, Marion, and her brother, Albert - were trapped in Nazi Germany. They managed eventually to get to Holland, but soon thereafter it was occupied by the Nazis. For the next six and a half years the Blumenthals were forced to live in refugee, transit, and prison camps that included Westerbork in Holland and the notorious Bergen-Belsen in Germany.

Young Mary Elouise is unhappy about who she is, until two African storytellers come to her school and help her to appreciate the value of her heritage. Eleanora E. Tate shares the richness of the contemporary African American experience with themes that speak to young readers of every color...

Verbannt und geächtet. Der Ketzer der Neuzeit Martin Luther will die Kirche verändern. Die Bibel soll für jeden Gläubigen erfahrbar werden. Akribisch macht er sich an die Übersetzung der lateinischen Schriften. Luther kritisiert das kirchliche Leben: Er wettert gegen den Ablasskauf, gegen das Bild eines strafenden Gottes, führt Kirchenlieder im Gottesdienst ein. Er will die Kirche revolutionieren - doch am Ende spaltet er sie auch.

Children will benefit from Dharmachari Nagaraja's appealing combination of warmth, wisdom, wit and playfulness in this third book from the At Bedtime series. Growing up in the modern world, our children can often feel distracted, stressed and anxious. The ancient wisdom of Buddhism, with its emphasis on peace, compassion and mindfulness, is the ideal basis for helping any child face the challenges of daily life with increased confidence and calm.

"When a boy who has poverty for his companion is inclined to find fault with the company that he is forced to keep, he should comfort himself by reading about the boyhood days of Martin Luther—a son of poverty who by the strength of God and the grace of Christ stamped his name on every page of...

Two thousand years ago, Jesus walked across Galilee; everywhere he traveled he gained followers. His contemporaries are familiar historical figures: Julius Caesar, Caesar Augustus, Herod the Great, Pontius Pilate. It was an era of oppression, when every man, woman, and child answered to the...

By the end of his brief life Ulrich Zwingli would change the religious landscape of his home and the world. It wasn't until the last few years of his life that he became a reformer. He fought for truth and righteousness with his mind and pen, he fought for lost souls to hear the good news of Jesus Christ, and at the age of 47, as an army chaplain, he was killed on the battlefield. The Shepherd Warrior, Ulrich Zwingli, fought the good fight. With his last strength he voiced his victory: "They can kill the body but not the soul!"

What made an ordinary monk become a catalyst for the Reformation in Europe in the 1500s? What were the reasons lying behind his nailing of 95 theses against the practice of indulgences to the door of the Schlosskirche in Wittenberg in 1517? Why was Martin Luther's life in danger? How did his apparent kidnapping result in the first ever New Testament translated into the German language? Discover how a fresh understanding of the Scriptures not only transformed his own life but had a huge impact upon Europe.

On March 19, 2013, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina became Pope Francis, the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church. His election to the papacy was notable in many ways. He became the first pope from the Americas, the first pope from the Southern Hemisphere, the first non-European pope in more than 1,200 years, the first Jesuit pope, and the first pope to choose the name Francis. Follow Pope Francis's journey to the papacy, from his days as a young chemist, to his studies of theology.

Even at the age of nine, little Golda Meir was known for being a leader. As the president of the American Young Sisters Society, she organizes her friends to raise money to buy textbooks for immigrant classmates. A glimpse at the early life of Israel's first female prime minister, who was born in Russia and grew up in Milwaukee, this story is based on a true episode in the early life of Golda Meir.

Geneviève sauva Paris deux fois du désastre. Tout d'abord en s'opposant à l'évacuation de la ville à l'approche des armées du terrible Attila et en affrétant onze bateaux qui ramenèrent du blé dans la capitale alors qu'une famine décimait ses habitants. Ensuite, en s'alliant à Clovis qui, après son baptême, entra dans la ville et réconcilia les peuples francs et gallo-romains.

François de Sales est l'un des grands théologiens de son temps. Il conseille les souverains dont les rois de France Henri IV et Louis XIII ainsi que les ducs de Savoie. François fonde l'ordre de la Visitation dont les religieuses réconfortent les malades et les pauvres. Grâce à l'usage de l'imprimerie, ses sermons sont diffusés dans toute l'Europe chrétienne.

Remi est élu évêque de Reims à seulement 22 ans et le demeura jusqu'à sa mort à 96 ans. Très vite célèbre grâce à ses nombreuses guérisons, il se lie d'amitié avec Clovis, un jeune chef franc et devient son conseiller. Après avoir remporté la bataille de Tolbiac, Clovis se convertit au christianisme. Il est baptisé avec 3 000 de ses hommes par l'évêque de Reims.

En moins d'une génération, ce Landais vigoureux crée hôpitaux, hospices, orphelinats, missions dans les campagnes et les pays lointains. Il conseille Anne d'Autriche, la reine de France, assiste les derniers moments du roi Louis XIII et consacre sa vie aux plus démunis. Écoutons l'histoire de l'un de nos saints les plus renommés.

Professeur à Carthage puis à Rome, Augustin, fils de Monique qui deviendra sainte, s'intéresse à toutes les philosophies et les idées religieuses qui fleurissent dans l'Empire romain. Finalement, il se convertit au christianisme, à l'âge de 33 ans, suite à sa rencontre avec saint Ambroise. Très vite, grâce à son éloquence, Augustin est le religieux le plus célèbre du monde méditerranéen.

Dans la cité du Vatican, Dom Grégorio et le père Gaétan racontent au jeune Louis l'histoire extraordinaire de Jésus, fils de Dieu, venu sur terre pour sauver les hommes du péché. Après sa résurrection, ses apôtres et ses compagnons propagent son message d'amour puis mettent par écrit ses enseignements : ce sont notamment les Évangiles que l'on retrouvent dans le Nouveau Testament.

Eugénio Pacelli est le principal collaborateur du pape Pie XI à qui il succède, à sa mort, en 1939. Pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Pie XII condamne régulièrement le nazisme et sauve de nombreux juifs notamment en ordonnant de les cacher dans des institutions religieuses. Après la guerre, il s'oppose aux régimes communistes qui poursuivent la répression des catholiques.