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November 18, 1999

482 Years After Luther's Protest, Lutherans and Catholics Reach Agreement

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Lutherans and Catholics sign historic agreement during ceremony in Germany. Bishop Christian Krause of Brunswick, Germany (left), president of the Lutheran World Federation, and Cardinal Edward Cassidy, president of the Vatican's Council for Promoting Christian Unity, sign a historic agreement on justification during an October 31, ceremony in Augsburg, Germany. (Photo by Edgar Trexler of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America)