http://afcmin.org/ateam/637/practicing-the-bible-is-a-crime-in-finland Helping plans come together, one post at a time Sun, 03 May 2015 14:00:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.9 http://afcmin.org/ateam/637/practicing-the-bible-is-a-crime-in-finland/comment-page-1#comment-2950 Thu, 20 Dec 2007 13:46:06 +0000 http://afcmin.org/ateam/?p=637#comment-2950 This is extremely troubling, but does Finland have the separation of church and state? The article calls the ELCF the “state church” of Finland. If that's the case, then Finnish Lutheran pastors can't expect the same legal protections that American pastors can. Note that it was church council – a group from his own church! – that requested the police to investigate.

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