Kirkens politiske privilegier virker mot sin hensikt dagen.no - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dagen.no Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
FREDERIKSBERG, Denmark /GENEVA | 5/5/2021 “Baptism in times of change” is a joint project of the Lutheran national churches in Sweden, Iceland, Finland, Norway and Denmark. Photo: folkekirken.dk
Regional studies show declining infant baptism rates
(LWI) - Bishop Emeritus Kristján Valur Ingólfsson of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Iceland (ELCI) gently ushers a toddler out of his home office, while pointing out that his grandchild was a “baptized one.” The toddler made an unexpected appearance during one of five webinars which seeks to study and ultimately reflect on the decline in the number of baptisms among Nordic churches.
“Baptism in times of change” is a joint project of the Lutheran national churches in Sweden, Iceland, Finland, Norway and Denmark and part of a larger initiative “Churches in times of change.”
Denmark: Socially liberal views and official consequences
7 Mar, 2021 09:44 PM
4 minutes to read
Millisphere: A discrete region inhabited by roughly one-thousandth of the world population.
Technically Denmark (2020 population 5.4 million) includes Greenland and the Faroe Islands but in a previous millisphere I had lumped them in with Iceland, Finland, Alaska and the indigenous people living within the Arctic Circle to make up the millisphere I called North Pole .
Before WWII Iceland had belonged to Denmark but had turned itself over to the then neutral USA in 1941 and is now independent. Today the Faroes and Greenland enjoy a degree of autonomy from Denmark.