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The Evangelical Lutheran Free Church of Norway (Den Evangelisk Lutherske frikyrkja i Noreg in Norwegian) or the Free Church as it is commonly known, is a nationwide Lutheran free church in Norway consisting of 81 congregations with 19,313 members in 2020, up from 18,908 in 2016. [26] It was founded in 1877 in Moss.
In the 1926 referendum on the repeal of prohibition on alcohol, the Bible Belt cast a strong vote against repeal (73.1% in Rogaland, 77.2% in Møre og Romsdal), unlike the rest of Norway. [2] The Bible Belt also has a strong pietist movement, that opposes the central authority of the State Church of Norway.
King Cnut the Great, who ruled Norway as well as England and Denmark in what is known as the North Sea Empire, went to great lengths to improve his realm's relations with the Catholic Church and European Christian kingdoms. [19] However, it is unclear the extent to which this was motivated by religious zeal, as opposed to political pragmatism.
There was an enormous need for Bible teachers and Bibles. In the 1980s, China opened more to receive Western expertise and especially to foreign trade. Today, the Norwegian Pentecostal missionary enthusiasm for China is based mostly on intercession and helping with Bible distribution. Bibles are printed both overseas and in China.
"The kingdom of Norway". In Berend, Nora (ed.). Christianization and the Rise of Christian Monarchy: Scandinavia, Central Europe and Rus', c.900-1200. Cambridge University Press. pp. 121– 166. ISBN 978-0-521-87616-2. Bagge, Sverre (2016). Cross and Scepter: The Rise of the Scandinavian Kingdoms from the Vikings to the Reformation. Princeton ...
The New Testament of 1524. In 1524, the exiled King Christian II of Denmark-Norway ordered the publication of the first Danish-language translation of the New Testament. It was given a full title which can be translated as "This is the New Testament in Danish directly from the Latin version," and is often referred to today as the New Testament of King Christian II.
In 1915, a mission organization by the name of Norges Frie Evangeliske Missionsforbund ('the Free Evangelical Missionary Federation') was founded by T.B. Barratt. In 1920 the name was changed to Norges Frie Evangeliske Hedningemission ('Norway's Free Evangelical Heathen Mission). In 1929 Barratt pushed for its dissolution, which happened in 1932.
In 2005, a survey conducted by Gallup International in sixty-five countries indicated that Norway was the least religious country in Western Europe, with 29% counting themselves as believing in a church or deity, 26% as being atheists, and 45% not being entirely certain. [15] According to the Eurobarometer Poll of 2010:-[16]