“Priests opposing female colleagues should consider their future”

The Free Church of Norway maintains its traditional view that marriage is "God's good plan for cohabitation between one man and one woman.” The Synod decided so last week.

Not even one in four young adults trusts the clergy of the Church of Norway. Recently, an opinion poll showed that confidence in priests declines among younger church members.

In Norway, Ukrainian soldiers share a memorial place with Russian soldiers. All of them died under the flag of the Soviet Union at the end of the Second World War. The current conflict between Russia and Ukraine causes dissatisfaction. “It is completely unbearable for a Ukrainian to go to the Soviet memorial and lay flowers in a place they share with the country that shoots down Ukrainian compatriots.”