Jehovah’s Witnesses Win Lawsuit Against Norwegian State

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For Jehovah's Witnesses and their 12,000 members in Norway, the victory in court is huge.Since 2021, they have been denied state grants and stripped of their registration as a religious community. Thus, they have missed out on a lot of money they would otherwise have been entitled to, between 16 and 18 million a year. Not least, their members have perceived it as a strong signal that their faith is not recognized on an equal footing with other b…

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Jehovah's Witnesses can now once again call themselves a recognized religious community in Norway. The religious community has won a controversial lawsuit against the Norwegian state.

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The decision to deprive Jehovah's Witnesses of state subsidies was invalid, the Court of Appeals believes. They thus came to the opposite conclusion than the district court.

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The decision to deny them state subsidies is therefore invalid.