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| Couple in Norway get 17 years for incest |
| [Norwaynews] [17.05.2013, 07:09pm, Fri. GMT] |
A Norwegian court sentenced a couple to 17 years in prison for violence, rape and incestuous relations with their three sons, calling it the country’s worst sexual abuse case. A 39-year-old woman and a 30-year-old man had been accused of physical and sexual violence over two years, from a very young age, against the two boys born of their union and the third boy from a previous relationship by the mother.
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| No place for Islamophobia in Norway- ambassador |
| [Norwaynews] [18.05.2013, 05:23am, Sat. GMT] |
Norwegian Ambassador to Turkey Janis Bjorn Kanavin said on Friday that Norwegian people had good relations with Muslim people, adding, "There is no place for Islamophobia in Norway." Speaking to AA at the Norway Sea Products Symposium in Ankara, Kanavin said cultural dialogue was vitally important, adding Norway and Turkey had always had intense cultural relations.
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| | | | Norway agency to file complaint over pork in halal food |
| [Norwaynews] [18.03.2013, 11:47pm, Mon. GMT] |
| The Norwegian Food Safety Authority said Friday it would file a police complaint against a food company after finding large quantities of pork in its halal-labeled products. Kebab meat sold by Norwegian group Kuraas to restaurants contained between five and 30 percent pork even though it was marked as halal, the agency found. "We will file a complaint against the producer," Catherine Signe Svinland, an adviser at the food safety watchdog, told AFP. |
| | | | Police to Wear Hijab in Norway |
| [Norwaynews] [07.01.2013, 04:26pm, Mon. GMT] |
Judges and police can wear hijab and turban on duty, according to the Norwegian Parliament Ethical Committee’s report submitted to the Ministry of Culture. While the majority of twelve in the committee voted for right to wear religious symbols, only a minority of three votes against this proposal, writes Aftenposten. There has been considerable political resistance to police uniform regulations. The argument is that the police and judges should be completely neutral. However, it is permitted that soldiers can use Muslim headscarves, Sikh turbans and Jewish caps in Norway.
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| | | | Islamic Revival Party Leader Visits Norway |
| [Norwaynews] [30.11.2012, 12:08pm, Fri. GMT] |
| Head of the Islamic Revival Party of Tajikistan, Kabiri visited Norway in the framework of his visit to Europe. Kabiri consists in the delegation of leaders of Islamic parties and movements of the world. As "Avesta" was informed at IRP office in Dushanbe, the delegation was welcomed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Norway Espen Bart and Deputy Speaker of Norwegian Parliament Akhtar Chaudhry. |
| | | | Norway abolishes Church of Norway |
| [Norwaynews] [16.05.2012, 08:26pm, Wed. GMT] |
In a move that has taken many by surprise, the Norwegian Parliament is set to separate church and state when it carries a constitutional amendment to abolish the Church of Norway. The nation will become secular, with no official religion, and the government will not participate in the appointment of church deans and bishops. Svein Harberg, the spokesman for the Church, Education, and Research Committee stated that the decision is historic both for the Norwegian Church and for the politicians in Parliament. |
| | | | 'Anti-Islamic' band nominated for Norway's top music prize |
| [Norway] [14.01.2012, 10:04am, Sat. GMT] |
| A notoriously "anti-Islamic" band has been nominated for Norway's top metal prize. Taake are one of six nominees for a prestigious Spellemann award, despite a song that declares: "To hell with Muhammad and the Muhammadans!" "Norway will soon awaken!" read the lyrics to Orkan (Hurricane), on Taake's album Noregs Vaapen. The Spellemanns are Norway's equivalent of the Brits or the Grammys, and Noregs Vaapen is nominated for best metal album. Elsewhere on Orkan, singer Ørjan Stedjeberg refers to Muslims' "unforgivable customs" and calls for a new "kingdom" to "shine through [the] bad years, shame and Christian times". |
| | | | Bible becomes 2011 bestseller in Norway |
| [Norway] [03.01.2012, 10:00pm, Tue. GMT] |
| The UK's 2011 bestseller lists might have been dominated by cookery, courtesy of Jamie Oliver, and romance, courtesy of David Nicholls, but Norwegian readers were plumping for another sort of book last year: the Bible. The first Norwegian translation of the Bible for 30 years topped the country's book charts almost every week between its publication in October and the end of the year, selling almost 80,000 copies so far and hugely exceeding expectations. |
| | | | Afghan convert to Christianity attacked at Norway asylum reception center |
| [Norwaynews] [30.08.2011, 07:22am, Tue. GMT] |
| A an ex-Muslim convert to Christianity was attacked with boiling water and acid by fellow detainees in Norway, according to Mohabat, the Iranian Christian news agency. He was attacked by fellow countrymen who are Muslims at an “asylum reception center” in Norway on Friday, according to Mohabat, which serves Farsi-speaking Christians in Iran as well as nearby countries. |
| | | | Norwegian gov’t thanks Islamic association |
| [Norwaynews] [07.08.2011, 07:54am, Sun. GMT] |
| The Norwegian government in a letter to Iran’s Association for Defending Victims of Terrorism appreciated its sympathy following a terrorist incident in the country. According to a report by the association’s Public Relations Department, part of the letter reads: “Your sympathy in hard times is appreciated. It is a matter of relief for us to know that you are thinking about us in hard times.” |
| | | | "An imam and a pastor side by side is a very powerful message," |
| [Norwaynews] [31.07.2011, 09:44am, Sun. GMT] |
A woman pastor and an imam celebrated together Friday the funeral of 18-year-old Bano Rashid, the first victim of Anders Behring Breivik's killing spree to be buried. The double heritage of the young woman, of Kurdish origin, and her commitment to politics were celebrated during the ceremony at an overflowing tiny church near the Oslo fjord. "An imam and a pastor side by side for this funeral is a very powerful message," Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere said after the service. |
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| Norway's first lesbian pastor gives up |
| [Norwaynews] [31.03.2013, 10:43am, Sun. GMT] |
| Norway's first woman pastor to enter into a same-sex civil union will quit her ministry to protest against the discrimination gays and lesbians face within the Lutheran Church, she said in an interview published on Wednesday. "It has become untenable for me to represent a Church where parts of it are still quite exclusionary," Hilde Raastad told the daily Aftenposten. In 1997, she became the first woman pastor in Norway to tie the knot in a civil partnership with another woman. |
| | | | Norway minister nixes police hijab |
| [Norwaynews] [08.01.2013, 04:21pm, Tue. GMT] |
The Norwegian culture minister says her country will not allow Muslim women police officers to wear hijab -- Islamic dress code for females-- as part of their uniform, rejecting a proposal from a commission appointed by the government. “The commission has had a broad mandate, They have raised the issue of religious symbols and uniforms. The government decided that religious symbols would not be allowed to be used in connection with police uniforms,” Culture Minister Hadia Tajik said on Monday.
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| | | | Norway Rightists Oppose Islamic Schools |
| [Norwaynews] [05.01.2013, 07:01pm, Sat. GMT] |
| A rightist Norwegian party is spearheading new campaigns against private Islamic schools, claiming that they endanger the country’s integration. “In Oslo, where applications (for Muslim schools) have come in, there are challenges with integration already,” Tord Lien, spokesman of Progress Party (FrP)n on education issues, told newspaper Aftenposten, News in English website reported on Friday, January 4. |
| | | | Norwegian Christian leader: Islamophobia not just fear, includes hatred |
| [Norwaynews] [22.09.2012, 02:10pm, Sat. GMT] |
| Gunnar Stalsett, the bishop emeritus of Oslo, warned about a hatred of Islam at a joint panel discussion organized by the Abant Platform and Fountain Magazine in İstanbul on Friday. “When I hear the word ‘Islamophobia,' I think it is too mild. There is a hatred of Islam. It is not only about being afraid of Islam, it also includes hatred,” said Stalsett, who is known for his article, “The Spirit of Norway” which called for a “reconciled diversity” following the Breivik incident in Norway in 2011. “Leaders and citizens need to mobilize against the evils of Islamophobia and xenophobia,” underlined the Norwegian bishop while adding that “terror in the name of God is the greatest blasphemy.” |
| | | | A Norwegian group called “Stop Islamisation of Norway” |
| [Norway] [12.03.2012, 06:31pm, Mon. GMT] |
| The group, who’s most active membership is located in Rogaland, has also been awarded a government concession to transmit on Radio Kos in Sandnes, western Norway. It alleges Internet radio capacity had to be increased from 25,000 to 200,000 listeners recently because of popularity. Merete Hodne and Kjersti Margrethe Addehaid Gilje told NRK from Bryne, a small town in Rogaland County, “We have a duty to our country to preserve our Christian values, and not least to protect our children against the terrible, evil forces of Islam.” |
| | | | Norwegian Muslims invited to visit churches |
| [Norwaynews] [07.01.2012, 11:21am, Sat. GMT] |
| Trygve Slagsvold Vedum (Centre Party) says Norwegian Muslims should visit churches during the Christmas holiday, in order to understand Norway and Norwegians better. He says Norwegian Christian traditions are part of the Norwegian history and culture that immigrants, including Muslims, would be better off knowing. Vedum also emphasized that ethnic Norwegians should visit the mosques and ceremonies of other religions. |
| | | | Oslo's fourth mosque to be opened near highway - People are Frustrated by this symbolic structure |
| [Norwaynews] [30.09.2011, 01:45pm, Fri. GMT] |
| Oslo's new, fourth mosque, of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat in Norway, located in Furuset, Oslo, will be officially opened on Friday. It will be the largest in all the Nordic countries.
The Baitun Nasr Mosque will the main place of worship for Norway's 1500 Ahmadiyya members, and will have a capacity of 4500.
The opening ceremony will be led by the Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat, Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, who is visiting Norway for the occasion. |
| | | | Westboro to Picket Norway Funerals; Officials Call It Insane |
| [Norwaynews] [08.08.2011, 09:59am, Mon. GMT] |
| The controversial Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church plans to send parishioners to Norway to protest and picket the funerals of those victims who lost their lives during activist Anders Breivik's recent killing spree in Oslo. Westboro church officials issued a press release this week announcing their decision to travel to Norway. |
| | | | WCC encourages Norwegian churches to "overcome terror" |
| [Norwaynews] [31.07.2011, 10:01am, Sun. GMT] |
| In a letter to the Christian Council of Norway, the World Council of Churches (WCC) has expressed support over the terrible killings last week. The WCC general secretary, Rev Dr Olav Fkyse Tveit and the Moderator of the WCC Central Committee, Rev Dr Walter Altmann expressed their “deep shock and sadness” concerning the attacks of last week. |
| | | | Church of Norway appoints new leader |
| [Norwaynews] [22.10.2010, 09:27am, Fri. GMT] |
The Church of Norway bishops have appointed Bishop of Borg, Helga Byfugllien, as their new chair person. She is the first woman to hold this office in the Norwegian Lutheran State Church. Byfugllien replaces Bishop of Agder and Telemark, Olav Skjevesland, who has led the group of 11 bishops since 2006. |
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