{"id":31480,"date":"2012-03-20T17:00:15","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T17:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/eni_norways_state_church_headed_toward_dis-establishment\/"},"modified":"2012-03-20T17:00:15","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T17:00:15","slug":"eni_norways_state_church_headed_toward_dis-establishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31480","title":{"rendered":"(ENI) Norway&#39;s state church headed toward dis-establishment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Major steps toward the dis-establishment of Norway&#8217;s state church, the (Lutheran) Church of Norway, were passed by the government on March 16 in its weekly session with King Harald V. <br \/>Expected to be adopted by the Parliament (Storting) in May or June this year, the proposals will make changes in the country&#8217;s constitution as well as in other church legislation, the Ministry of Government Administration, Reform and Church Affairs announced.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I hope we have now prepared a good basis for the Church of Norway to be an open and inclusive national church, also in a multicultural and multi-religious setting,&#8221; Minister Rigmor Aasrud (Labour Party), said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christiancentury.org\/article\/2012-03\/norways-state-church-headed-toward-dis-establishment\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major steps toward the dis-establishment of Norway&#8217;s state church, the (Lutheran) Church of Norway, were passed by the government on March 16 in its weekly session with King Harald V. Expected to be adopted by the Parliament (Storting) in May<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31480\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,42,579,200,133,114,363,456,154,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-churchstate-matters","category-europe","category-history","category-law-legal-issues","category-lutheran","category-norway","category-other-churches","category-politics-in-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}