Church of Norway says sorry to LGBTQ+ people for ‘shame, great harm and pain’
by Ashifa Kassam European community affairs correspon from World news | The Guardian on (#70T5H)
Presiding bishop Olav Fykse Tveit says discrimination and harassment should never have happened'
Against a backdrop of red stage curtains at one of Oslo's most prominent LGBTQ+ spaces, the Church of Norway apologised for the discrimination and harm it had inflicted.
The church in Norway has caused LGBTQ+ people shame, great harm and pain," the presiding bishop, Olav Fykse Tveit, said on Thursday. This should never have happened and that is why I apologise today."
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