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    The Council on International Relations of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Denmark

    http://www.interchurch.dk/cn/cn.php?key=1266

    Church News from Denmark
    August 2005

    Armenian Christians in Denmark

    The Ministry of Ecclesiastical Affairs has just recognised The Armenian
    Apostolic Church in Denmark as a congregation with juridical rights to
    administer marriage ceremonies and with certain privileges as regards
    taxation. There are in Denmark almost 1200 Armenian refugees from Iran
    and Iraq. A priest from the Armenians in Sweden has until now served
    them but they are looking for a priest to be their own pastor. Divine
    Services are held in Danish churches in Copenhagen, Aarhus, and Odense.

    There are strong bonds between the Armenian Church and The Evangelical
    Lutheran Church in Denmark. Danish missionary societies and friends
    of Armenia supported relief actions for the people during the great
    massacres by the Turks, and during World War I the missionaries
    Karen Jeppe and Maria Jacobsen took care of children who had lost
    their parents.
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