Takeaways from AP’s report on why so many Greenlanders are Lutheran
Associated PressNUUK, Greenland — About 90% of the 57,000 Greenlanders identify as Inuit and the vast majority of them belong to the Lutheran Church today, more than 300 years after a Danish missionary brought that branch of Christianity to the world’s largest island. That rugged yet vulnerable lifestyle helps fuel people’s devotion, said Bishop Paneeraq Siegstad Munk, leader of Greenland’s Evangelical Lutheran Church. Greenlanders don’t have to believe to belong to the Lutheran Church Religiosity levels vary in Greenland as it does elsewhere. John Johansen after a service at the Hans Egede Church, where an American couple visiting Greenland attended wearing pins that read: “I didn’t vote for him.” The tension of shared Lutheran and Inuit traditions The Church of Greenland separated from Denmark’s Evangelical Lutheran Church in 2009 and is funded by Greenland’s government.
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Most Greenlanders are Lutheran, 300 years after a missionary brought the faith to the remote island
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