The Swiss Protestant reformer Ulrich Zwingli mounted one of the first protests against Lenten traditions in 1522. Zwingli defended Zurich printers who insisted they needed their daily meat to have ...

Pierre Viret appointed pastor at Geneva — March 2, 1559 This week marks the anniversary of when prominent Swiss Protestant ...

After the Reformation, the building was taken over by John Calvin's Reformed Protestant Church ... to Communion," said Pilly to Protest Info, a Swiss press agency that reports on news related ...

Zwingli thus became the architect of the Swiss Reformation. But he remains the least known of the great Protestant fathers. His story has now been told with sympathy and scholarship by Genevan ...

In French. The film showcases a picturesque park in Geneva, specifically the Jardin des Bastions, which features a significant monument to the Reformation and statues of key Protestant reformers.

Bearded, 15th Century Nicolas de Flue is worshiped by all Switzerland as a national hero, and was regarded by Luther and Zwingli as a precursor of the Reformation. Last week, with trumpets ...

Luther refused to shake the hand of the Swiss reformer Ulrich Zwingli, a snub that would haunt the Protestant cause for generations. Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of Roper’s biography is ...