Church of Norway says sorry to LGBTQ+ people for ‘shame, great harm and pain’ – presiding bishop Olav Fykse Tveit says discrimination and harassment should ‘never have happened’
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Scandinavia has its own dark history of assimilating Indigenous people, and churches played a role – but are apologizing
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Dreadlocks and downward dogs, Oslo's new bishop takes unorthodox approach – Sunniva Gylver is keen to show a new side to Norway's Protestant Church
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What one Finnish church learned from creating a service almost entirely with AI – tools wrote the sermons and some of the songs, composed the music and created some the visuals
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Traditionally in the Swedish church the bride and groom walk down the aisle together – but the patriarchal handover is catching on, and now Lutherans want to stop it
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Denmark has managed to anger the Evangelical Lutheran Church and hundreds of thousands of Danish voters – all because of a public holiday
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Minneapolis church still holds services in Norwegian – congregation was founded in 1922 at the tail end of a decades-long migration of Norwegians to Minnesota
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Megan Rohrer elected as first openly transgender bishop in US Lutheran church
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The Church of Sweden has more female than male priests for the first time – a sign of huge strides for gender equality since women were first allowed to be ordained in 1960
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Danish Lutheran minister who attracted international attention by proclaiming that there is no God or afterlife, but retracted after being suspended, has died
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Päivi Räsänen is facing new police investigations for citing Bible verses on social media to object to the Lutheran church's participation in an LGBT pride event
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