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	Norway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Norwegians colonized Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Greenland and parts of the British Islands and attempted to settle at L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland, Canada (perhaps the Vinland of The Saga of Eric the Red).
		The Norwegian royal line died out in 1387, partly because of the grand recession after the fl plague in 1349, wiping out the majority of the population, and partly because Queen Margrethe's son, heir to the throne, died at barely 17 years of age.
		Norway is bounded for its entire length by seas of the North Atlantic Ocean: the North Sea to the southwest and its large inlet the Skagerrak to the south, the Norwegian Sea to the west, and the Barents Sea to the northeast.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Norway (2443 words)

	Wikipedia: Norway
		The nearby island territories of Svalbard and Jan Mayen are under Norwegian sovereignty and are considered by Norway as part of the kingdom, while Bouvet Island in the South Atlantic Ocean and Peter I Island in the South Pacific Ocean are Norwegian dependencies and not considered part of the kingdom.
		Growing Norwegian irritation during the 19th century with having to deal with a government in the Swedish capital Stockholm spawned the dissolution of the Norway-Sweden union in 1905, when the Norwegian government offered the throne of Norway to Danish Prince Carl.
		The Norwegian climate is fairly temperate, especially along the coast under the influence of the Gulf stream.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/n/no/norway.html (1109 words)

	Church and State in Norway
		As the Norwegian state since the 1970s has become quite rich, the system has benefited the church and the religious believers, and as a result the resistance against the state church system has generally been quite weak from the part of the religious believers.
		In the case of bishops the church is allowed to present its candidates, and from the list of candidates presented by the church, the state selects the new bishop.
		The members of the church council are elected through a process in which the congregations elect members of the councils of bishoprics, and these again elect the members of the national church council.
	www.infidels.org /library/modern/finngeir_hiorth/norway.html (3045 words)

	Norway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The nearby island territories of Svalbard and Jan Mayen are under Norwegian sovereignty and areconsidered by Norway as part of the kingdom, while Bouvet Island in theSouth Atlantic Ocean and Peter I Island in the South Pacific Ocean are Norwegian dependencies and not considered part of the kingdom.
		The Norwegian governmentoffered the throne of Norway to Danish Prince Carl.
		The Council of State or cabinet consists of a Prime Minister and his council, appointed by the King.Since 1884, parliamentarism hasensured that the cabinet must have the support of the parliament, so the appointment by the King is a formality.
	www.therfcc.org /norway-3891.html (1193 words)

	Norway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Growing Norwegian irritation during the 19th century spawned the dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden in 1905.
		The landscape is generally rugged and mountainous, topped by glaciers and its coastline of over 20,000 km (10% more than the coastline of the United States) is punctuated by steep-sloped inlets known as fjords, as well as a multitude of islands and islets.
		Norwegians celebrate their national day on May 17.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/n/no/norway.html (1292 words)

	Solor's History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		It appears that the first Norwegian settlers in Webster came from the large Norwegian settlement in Goodhue County near Kenyon, MN and from the Norwegian settlement of Christiania just a few miles to the north and east of here in Dakota and Scott Counties.
		One of the earliest Norwegian settlers in Webster from the Christiania settlement was Ludvig Dokkenbraaten.
		It is stated that he and his family felt more at home in this church and that they held prayer meetings in the home as part of the life of the congregation.
	home.earthlink.net /~solorlutheran/id15.html (1263 words)

	Norwegian church companions
		The Church of Norway has represented the main expression of religious belief in Norway for a thousand years.
		The church has initiated innovations such as revision and experimentation in the liturgy, composition of new church music, new Bible translations and new hymnals.
		Norwegian Church Aid is the country's largest non-governmental development agency.
	www.elca.org /countrypackets/norway/church.html (493 words)

	Faith Assembly Church
		Norway’s Lutheran state church has been riven by conflict int eh decade since the approval of de facto gay marriage, with the ordination of registered partners the most divisive issue.
		From the start of the prince’s controversial relationship to its eventual culmination in marriage, the future head of the Norwegian state church received tokens of public support or understanding from the very same bishops who were leading the fight to permit the ordination of homosexual partners.
		Gay marriage also elevated the church’s openly rebellious minority liberal faction to national visibility, allowing Norwegians to feel that their proclivity for unmarried parenthood, if not fully approved by the church, was at least not strongly condemned.
	www.fachurch.org /marriage.htm (5841 words)

	NSD Newsletter 96 - Statistics on the Norwegian State Church (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The project was proposed by the Church of Norway Research Centre and is being implemented with its co-operation.
		At the same time, the Ministry of Education, Research and Church Affairs, and the Norwegian State Church, wanted an improved basis for planning and for the establishment of policy goals.
		The annual parish statistics contain information on the numbers of births, baptisms, burials, people joining and leaving the church, holy services, participation at holy services, communion participation, confirmations, activities of the parish council, work done for children and youth and various associations, welfare work, religious education by the parish, and key financial numbers.
	www.nsd.uib.no /english/NSD/newsletter/statistics.shtml (468 words)

	Excerpts of 2000 Years of Grace - Good Shepherd Evangelical Lutheran Church (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America was organized at the Luther Valley Church north of Beloit, Wisconsin, on October 5, 1853.
		This church body carried on the tradition of the confessional awakening in Europe and considered itself to be the spiritual daughter of the Norwegian state church, its Vivacious Daughter, if you will.
		The Norwegian fathers yearned for fellowship on the empty plains of the Midwest.
	www.goodshepherdels.org /historyexcerpts.htm (4384 words)

	Commission Report 2002 on Church/State in Norway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The report "The Same Church - A New Church Structure" concludes that the strong ties between the Church and the State must be loosened, and a new “order” established for their future relationship.
		The letter accompanying the recommendation states that ”at this time of the process it is particularly the main lines of policy in the relationship between the Church and the State that are on the agenda.
		And further: “The Church of Norway National Council is of the opinion that it is too early to ask the relevant bodies of the public hearing entitled to comment the recommendation, to make a decision on all the questions treated in the recommendation related to how to organise the Church in the future”.
	www.kirken.no /engelsk/engelsk_statech.html (1829 words)

	Kjell Magne Bondevik - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Kjell Magne Bondevik (born September 3, 1947) is a Norwegian lutheran minister and politician.
		In 1979 he was ordained as pastor in the (Lutheran) Norwegian State Church.
		Bondevik was also Minister of Foreign Affairs in Jan P. Syse’s government 1989-1990, Minister of Church and Education in Kåre Willoch’s government 1983-1986, also Prime Minister Willoch’s deputy 1985-1986, and state secretary at the Office of the Prime Minister during Lars Korvald’s government 1972-1973.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Kjell_Magne_Bondevik (504 words)

	Touchstone Archives: Norwegian Woes
		All the Scandinavian state churches are Lutheran, in that they subscribe to the major Lutheran confessional documents, but they all exhibit a broad spectrum of Christian and subchristian stances.
		Secondly, the Norwegian government invited the state church bishops to devise a Norwegian version of the “flying bishops” scheme in use in the Church of England.
		In the meantime, the Norwegian bishops were unable to come to any common mind about the Siri Sunde affair at their March 1999 meeting, save to agree to discuss the question once again at a special meeting on May 1, 1999.
	www.touchstonemag.com /archives/print.php?id=12-06-061-r (1753 words)

	Muslim Population
		Both Utnem and Staalsett are of the opinion that the Norwegian Government has a moral obligation to put a greater pressure on the US and Israel to stop the Israeli occupation.
		The majority states that in general, prayer calls must be allowed, subject to approval by the local authorities, noise restrictions and other by-laws.
		He also stated that there is no basis in the Koran for forced marriages and circumcision of women.
	www.islamicpopulation.com /norway-muslim.html (1457 words)

	Hauge Church (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Although the Haugeans did not seek to leave the Norwegian Lutheran State Church, this pietistic lay movement came into friction with authority and the dominance of the officials and reflected a growing class consciousness.
		The Hauge congregation continued using the original log church until it built its new, larger church on a hill to the southeast in 1887.
		In 1964, the Dane County Historical Society placed a marker at the church, and the church was added to the State and National Registers of Historic Places in 1974.
	www.mounthoreb.org /PT6_02hauge.html (1419 words)

	Council backs separation of church and state (Norway) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		A majority of the state Church Council is willing to separate church and state, but want the church to maintain a privileged position among religious communities in Norway.
		The new 'red-green' left-center government has been unable to agree on the future organization of the Norwegian state church and in their government platform, the Soria Moria Declaration, decided to leave this stance until the Council had reached its own conclusion.
		A survey commissioned by Centennial Norway 2005 this spring found that nearly half of Norwegians believe the time has come to sever ties between state and church, with 41 percent in favor of a state church and 46 opposed.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1513939/posts (296 words)

	Iceland (10/05)
		Based on Norwegian and Icelandic histories and genealogies, the Sagas present views of Nordic life and times up to 1100 A.D. The Saga writers sought to record their heroes' great achievements and to glorify the virtues of courage, pride, and honor, focusing in the later Sagas on early Icelandic settlers.
		After the outbreak of hostilities in Korea in 1950, and pursuant to the request of NATO military authorities, the United States and Iceland agreed that the United States should again be responsible for Iceland's defense.
		U.S. citizens who are long-term visitors or traveling in dangerous areas are encouraged to register their travel via the State Department’s travel registration web site at https://travelregistration.state.gov or at the Consular section of the U.S. embassy upon arrival in a country by filling out a short form and sending in a copy of their passports.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/3396.htm (3738 words)

	STUDENT HOLIDAYS - THE GUIDE TO GREAT HOLIDAYS IN NORWAY
		Norwegian is the official language of Norway, but general knowledge of English, Swedish and Danish is good.
		Norwegian pharmacies are not permitted to give out medicine on prescriptions from outside of the country, and if you do run short, you will need to contact a Norwegian doctor in order to get a prescription for a new supply.
		NSB, the Norwegian State Railways, has separate coaches specially fitted out for those with impaired mobility, and the new Coastal Express ships are provided with elevators and cabins to accommodate disabled passengers.
	www.studentholidays.com /nor/norway.htm (2050 words)

	Christianity :: Bishop invites more media coverage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The bishop for the Norwegian state church district in Trondheim is encouraging journalists to critically review local church services.
		Norwegians automatically become members of the state church at birth, but only about 4 percent regularly attend church services.
		Norway's state church, which ascribes to the Evangelical Lutheran religion, relies mostly on state funding.
	www.religionnewsblog.com /archives/00003827.html (332 words)

	PREVIEW: The End of Marriage in Scandinavia
		Norway's Lutheran state church has been riven by conflict in the decade since the approval of de facto gay marriage, with the ordination of registered partners the most divisive issue.
		In 1993, as the Norwegian legislature was debating gay marriage, Moxnes published an article, "Det tomme ekteskap" ("Empty Marriage"), in the influential liberal paper Dagbladet.
		In comparison to Europe, Americans are more religious and more likely to turn to the family than the state for a wide array of needs--from child care, to financial support, to care for the elderly.
	www.weeklystandard.com /Utilities/printer_preview.asp?idArticle=3660&R=9D18144A2 (5853 words)

	Fjordman: Bishop critical of asylum policy
		The head of the former state church says that Swedish refugee policies have deteriorated so much over the past ten years that the right of asylum has more or less disappeared here.
		I am a catholic, and the Catholic Church are converting muslims in Africa, in Europe, however, is more complicated because people live like God didn´t exist, they only want to flee from the reality.
		It is wrong on the moral level both for the claim (associating offenders and victims) and for downplaying the actual issue.
	fjordman.blogspot.com /2005/11/bishop-critical-of-asylum-policy.html (1332 words)

	Bulletin # 121 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The ban of religious symbols in state schools and public administration services, representing the secular French Republic, is not as new as the outcry of Islamic fundamentalists and the harsh condemnation by the Christian churches suggest.
		The dominant influence of the Catholic Church, against which the lay society originally had to protect itself, had been curbed, and the increasing number of Muslim immigrants from North Africa tried to integrate themselves into a society, in which religion was exclusively a private matter.
		As reported in Bulletin # 118, the Evangelic Lutheran Church in Finland observes a sharp increase in quitting members after the freedom of religion law was amended last year, allowing resignation with immediate effect by mail.
	www.rationalistinternational.net /archive/en/rationalist_2004/121.htm (1292 words)

	Stanley Kurtz on Gay Marriage on National Review Online
		One of the few things distinguishing same-sex registered partnerships from marriage is that they cannot be celebrated in the Norwegian state church.
		Since the Norwegian tendency to marry after the second child is gradually giving way, it is likely that the 67-percent figure for all out-of-wedlock births will someday catch up to the 82-percent figure for first-born out-of-wedlock births.
		His persistent belittling of the connection between marriage and parenthood and his attempts to elevate infertile exceptions into the rule for a transformed understanding of marriage are laying the cultural groundwork for a Scandinavian-style disappearance of marriage in the United States.
	www.nationalreview.com /kurtz/kurtz200402020917.asp (2169 words)

	Church Directory of the United States and WEB Hosting
		Just three clicks to find any church with a phone number, WEB page, or e-mail address anywhere in the United States.
		Church Angel is a free service to Christian churches.
		Church Angel does not accept or open E-mails with attachments.
	www.churchangel.com (167 words)

	Religious Freedom World Report
		It is constitutionally mandated that the king and a majority of the members of the Council of State belong to the state church.
		The constitution states that all inhabitants professing the Evangelical-Lutheran religion are bound by law to bring their children up in that faith.
		Religious instruction in the state religion is provided in all public schools, but children of other faiths may be exempt upon request.
	www.religiousfreedom.com /wrpt/Europe/norway.htm (278 words)

	"Thoughts" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		But my reasons have to do with granting to churches, as institutions, religious bodies, the right to define marriage, and as part of that, recognizing the authority of churches to define marriage for their congregants.
		I don't like it because it recognizes churches as having the right to perform ceremonies which entitle people to specific state and federal benefits, which seems to me to be an unacceptable mingling of church and state.
		It's true that churches now perform marriages and can decide whether they want to or not, but if churches decide they don't want to, people who want to participate in the "sacred institution" can be married and do not have to be relegated to something they wouldn't choose, i.e., civil unions.
	www.gentlespirit.com /cihforum/Marriage/1.html (9463 words)

	Recollections of an immigrant: a machine-readable transcription.
		He and Kleng Peerson from the same district came to the United States in 1821 as prospectors for others who lived in and around Stavanger and were thinking of going to America, because as Quakers they were ill-treated by the authorities of the State church.
		He visited the United States in 1881 while that Muus litigation was under way, lecturing in cities in the Northwest, and made his headquarters in Minneapolis as the guest of the late Dr. Bendeke, in whose house I was a steady visitor.
		Stating our purpose to the secretary he not only showed us that and the other sculptures, and the paintings, but elbowed us into the diplomatic gallery, which was crowded with people other than diplomatists on account of a bill of unusual importance under debate.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /gc/lhbum/01450/01450.sgm (18080 words)

	The Atheist Alliance Web Center \| Atheism on the Internet \| Atheist Groups (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Moselle group of Freethinkers is taking action to obtain the separation of the different churches from the state in Moselle (France).
		an organization devoted to fight religious organizations like the Norwegian state church and the like which belittle and oppress people and beliefs which do not conform to their beliefs based on fear and superstition...
		For those finding themselves in a state of unbelief while living in a State of Belief.
	www.atheistalliance.org /internet/net_organizations.html (1002 words)

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