By AFPMore by this AuthorBERLINFormer US president Barack Obama will join German Chancellor Angela Merkel to speak at a Protestant church gathering in Berlin in May, the organisers said. It is part of this year's Kirchentag (Church Day), which runs from May 24 to 28, and is expected to attract 140,000 visitors. Co-hosted by the Obama Foundation and Germany's Evangelische Kirchentag (Protestant Church Day), the event will also feature Reverend Thabo Makgoba, the Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town. This year's Church Day comes as Germany commemorates the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, a seismic theological shift started by Martin Luther who criticised the indulgences of the Catholic Church and challenged the authority of the Pope and place of the saints. It was also in the German capital where Obama held the biggest rally of his 2008 watershed campaign.

Source: Daily Nation April 12, 2017 03:22 UTC