The 500th anniversary of the Reformation would be the 'perfect time' for Protestant leaders to recognize and apologize for the 'horrific anti-Semitism' of their movement’s founder Martin Luther, an official with a leading US-based Jewish human rights organization said.

The Christian world appears to be pushing for reconciliation with the Jews, as now the Protestant Church in the Netherlands has declared Martin Luther's anti-Semitic ideology as "unacceptable."