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Church of Norway apologises to LGBTQ+ community for past discrimination
- On Thursday, the Lutheran Church of Norway apologized to Norway's LGBTQ+ community at the London Pub, with Olav Fykse Tveit saying `The Church of Norway inflicted shame, serious harm and pain on gay people`.
- Long ago the church labelled gay people a "global social danger" and called their acts "perverse and despicable," but The Church of Norway allowed gay pastors in 2007 and religious unions in 2017.
- With 3.4 million members, the Church of Norway represents over 60% of Norwegians, while 65% said it was "high time" to apologise and Tveit attended Pride in 2023.
- The London Pub carries the memory of the June 25, 2022 attack that left two dead and nine injured, while Stephen Adom said the apology was "strong and important" but too late as the perpetrator, Zaniar Matapour, was sentenced to 30 years.
- Other Protestant churches in England and Canada have issued similar apologies in recent years, placing the Church of Norway's gesture in a broader pattern.
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Church of Norway apologises to LGBTQ+ community for past discrimination
The Church of Norway apologised on Thursday to the country's LGBTQ+ community for decades of discrimination, acknowledging the institution had caused harm to gay people and thanking those who campaigned for change.
·United Kingdom
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The president of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Norway, Olav Fykse Tveit, publicly apologized this Thursday to the LGBTI+ people of the Scandinavian country for the shame and pain that the institution has caused them for decades.
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der Standard DEChairman Bishop spoke of "great damage and pain" that the Church had inflicted on queer persons in the past
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