Separating Church and State News Norway’S Population Reached All Parties in 5,003,000 on April 1, 2012, and Increased by 17,100 in the Parliament Are First Quarter
(Periodicals postage paid in Seattle, WA) TIME-DATED MATERIAL — DO NOT DELAY Sports Taste of Norway Will Solskjær Cozy up with creamy stay in Molde or Livet er en reise, smoked salmon leave? ikke et bestemmelsessted. soup – Ukjent Read more on page 15 Read more on page 8 Norwegian American Weekly Vol. 123 No. 21 May 25, 2012 Established May 17, 1889 • Formerly Western Viking and Nordisk Tidende $1.50 per copy Norway.com News Find more at www.norway.com Separating church and state News Norway’s population reached All parties in 5,003,000 on April 1, 2012, and increased by 17,100 in the Parliament are first quarter. This is the greatest behind a change population growth ever regis- tered in any first quarter, Sta- to the Constitution tistics Norway reports. Twenty percent of this was due to the birth surplus, and 80 percent to the net immigration. Of immi- STA ff CO MPILATI O N grants having other citizenship Norwegian American Weekly than Norwegian, 69 percent had European citizenship. The process of changing Nor- (blog.norway.com/category/ way’s constitution (Grunnloven) news) so that the State Church becomes Culture its own separate entity went into effect on Monday, May 21. The The Conservative Party (Høyre) process has been ongoing since is supported by 32 percent of 2008, and now the Norwegian the electorate, according to the government shall no longer have May poll by Sentio Research a part in appointing the bishop for Norge, up 7.1 points from the previous poll. Prime Minis- the Norwegian Church.
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