Other public offices with presence on Svalbard are the Norwegian Directorate of Mining, the Norwegian Polar Institute, the Norwegian Tax Administration and the Church of Norway.

The Catholic Church everywhere in Scandinavia had sealed its fate by supporting hopeless causes: Christian II and the emperor Charles V in Denmark, Norwegian independence in that country, and in Sweden the Kalmar Union.

In the 1160s, the Church got involved, and made King Magnus Erlingsson the first Norwegian king to be crowned, in 1163 or 1164.

The News from Lake Wobegon does not have a set structure, but features recurring characters and places such as the Chatterbox Café, the Sidetrack Tap, Pastor Ingqvist of the Lake Wobegon Lutheran Church and his successor Pastor Liz, Father Emil of Our Lady of Perpetual Responsibility Roman Catholic Church ( a parody of Our Lady of Perpetual Help ), the Lake Wobegon Whippets sports teams, various members of the Bunsen and Krebsbach families, and an assortment of nearby " Norwegian bachelor farmers.

The background for these conflicts were the unclear Norwegian succession laws, social conditions and the struggle between Church and King.

* Johan Oscar Smith, Norwegian Christian leader and founder of Brunstad Christian Church

London's Norwegian Church and Finnish Church and the Swedish Seamen's Church are all in Rotherhithe.

The Finnish Church and the Norwegian Church are both located in Albion Street ; they were built in 1958 and 1927 respectively ( Rotherhithe Library is located between them ).

Other public offices with presence on Svalbard are the Norwegian Directorate of Mining, the Norwegian Polar Institute, the Norwegian Tax Administration and the Church of Norway.

Established by Norwegian settlers on October 26, 1874 ; Singsaas Lutheran Church at over 135 years old is on the National Register of Historic Places.

East Marsh Lutheran Church and Augustana Lutheran Church provided the backbone for congregations that were almost all Norwegian.

* Fox Lake Norwegian Community, Its People, Its Church ( Janice Uggen Johnson.

The town ’ s heritage is still celebrated today with the annual Lutefisk, Lefse and Swedish Meatball Supper at Bethel Lutheran Church ( Porter Norwegian Lutheran Church ) in early November.

Norwegian settlers in and around the community, who were mostly Lutheran, built St. Olaf Kirke ( kirke is Norwegian for " Church ") in a rural area just outside of Cranfills Gap.

Norwegian NGO Norwegian People's Aid is one organisation involved in the safe removal of land mines.

* Norwegian People's Aid, a non-governmental labour and humanitarian organization in Norway

Windschuttle claimed that Daum " had done no research into the matter " and that " the reports of the Sudanese operations of the several Western aid agencies, including Oxfam, Médecins sans Frontières, and Norwegian People ’ s Aid, who have been operating in this region for decades, will not find any evidence of an unusual increase in the death toll at the time ".

This is a joint initiative of PRIO, the Norwegian Red Cross and the Norwegian Church Aid to help block the spread of small arms to areas where they are likely to be used in warfare, armed violence or human rights abuses.

* 1996 & 1997: Member of the Board of Norwegian Church Aid ( NCA ), a major humanitarian relief and

Norwegian People's Aid () is a non-governmental organization, founded in 1939 as the Norwegian Labour Movement's humanitarian organisation for solidarity.

Norwegian People ’ s Aid was founded on 7 December 1939.

Other more conventional projects NPA has been involved in include: First aid and rescue work to Norwegian people during the Second World War ; Aid to other European countries after the war ; Awareness and prevention campaign for drowning ; Rehabilitation home for people with epilepsy ; Support to the ANC during Apartheid ; and promotion of democracy and fair distribution of wealth and resources.

The Norwegian Peoples ' Aid Organization is currently assembling a team of mine sweepers to assess the situation.

Norwegian Church Aid ( NCA ), " Kirkens Nødhjelp " in Norwegian, is an independent humanitarian and ecumenical organisation with headquarters in Oslo, Norway.

Norwegian Church Aid believes that poor and oppressed people know themselves best how their situation can be improved ; it is for this reason that NCA works in close cooperation with locally-based partner organisations in the 65 countries in which the organisation is active.

Norwegian Church Aid works together with churches and other civil society partners who have extensive experience both in delivering basic services and empowering the poor.

Norwegian Church Aid has been committed to helping those living with AIDS since the early days of the epidemic.

Norwegian Church Aid is also active internationally, campaigning for HIV-positive peoples ’ rights to fair treatment and medicines.

This is why Norwegian Church Aid is working to secure the rights of the poor to clean water and good sanitation.

Norwegian Church Aid is therefore working to ensure that our contribution happens within the framework of sustainable water source management.

Norwegian Church Aid works to give hope and new strength to victims, and to create a climate of openness around the subject of violence towards women.

Religion plays an important role in most societies, and, as a faith-based organisation, Norwegian Church Aid is fortunate to be able work together with religious partners in working to transform conflict and build peace.

* Norwegian Church Aid

Church Aid, Norwegian

During the German occupation, which lasted from 1940 – 1945, the university ’ s rector, Didrik Arup Seip, was imprisoned, and the university was placed under the management of a rector appointed by the Norwegian Nazi Party, NS.

In Norwegian Nynorsk and Icelandic the Old Norse form has survived to this day ( in Icelandic only as a less used synonym to gluggi ), in Swedish the word vindöga remains as a term for a hole through the roof of a hut, and in the Danish language ‘ vindue ’ and Norwegian Bokmål ‘ vindu ’, the direct link to ‘ eye ’ is lost, just like for ' window '.

* Norwegian Defence Research Establishment ’ s Experimental Bi-Multistatic CW Radar

" You Raise Me Up "- It was in fact reading Graham ’ s novel The Whitest Flower, that led Norwegian composer, Rolf Lovland to contact Graham with a melody.

Around 1600 Tvedestrand was mainly a harbour for the Berge and Tveite farms ’ boats, hence the name Tvedestrand ( strand means beach or coast in Norwegian ).

* Norwegian Musicians ’ Union ( Norwegian )

It was then I knew that rock ’ n ’ roll could scare the fuck out of certain people .” The Norwegian group Turbonegro made a song called " Zillion Dollar Sadist " as a tribute to Billion Dollar Babies.

When the inventor, Bror With, won a race on the new design, Norwegian Crown Prince Olav ask him what they were, and he responded " Oh, they ’ re just a couple of rat traps I picked up at the hardware store ".

Azerbaijanis erased Armenian inscriptions on the church ’ s walls, which led to by an official complaint by Norwegian foreign ministry.

During the German occupation, which lasted from 1940 – 1945, the university ’ s rector, Didrik Arup Seip, was imprisoned, and the university was placed under the management of a rector appointed by the Norwegian Nazi Party, NS.

During the German occupation, which lasted from 1940 – 1945, the university ’ s rector, Didrik Arup Seip, was imprisoned, and the university was placed under the management of a rector appointed by the Norwegian Nazi Party, NS.

The Norwegian Henrik Ibsen ( 1828 – 1906 ) also travelled to Copenhagen where he produced numerous plays such as A Doll ’ s House ( 1879 ).

* Norwegian war children ’ s association-Norwegian group of children fathered by German occupying soldiers, founded 1986

On 12 May 1996, the TIPH observers were reinstated, this time with only Norwegian members, to be replaced with a new mission after the IDF ’ s redeployment in Hebron.

In May 2012, Lauder condemned as " despicable " remarks made by the Norwegian sociologist Johan Galtung who had " revived anti-Semitic canards such as Jewish control of the media " and suggested that Israel ’ s Mossad could have been behind the 2011 " massacres in Norway committed by Anders Breivik " in which 77 people died.

Stabæk was the first Norwegian association football club with both their men and women ’ s teams in the premier divisions in 2009.

Norwegian Defence Minister at the time, Bjørn Tore Godal, said “ the United States is Norway ’ s most important ally.

Foula ( Old Norse Fuglaey, " bird island ", compare Norwegian Fugløy, " fowl island ", Gaelic Fughlaigh ) in the Shetland Islands of Scotland is one of Great Britain ’ s most remote permanently inhabited islands.