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On April 17, Martin Luther, a German theologian and monk in 1521, appeared at the Reichstag zu Worms to defend his ideas on the reform of the church.
The church responded by showing hostility, branding Luther a heretic and threatening to excommunicate him.
Reichstag zu Worms was intended to give Luther a chance to defend his ideas and persuade him to withdraw his teachings.
But He refused to withdraw his thoughts, claiming that he could not go against his conscience and the word of God.
Luther's challenge in the Reichstag zu Worms marked a turning point in the Protestant Reformation.
Luther's ideas continued to spread throughout Germany and beyond, forming many Protestant denominations, eventually dividing Christianity into Catholicism and Protestantism.