Norway Evangelicals Withdrawing From Franklin Graham Festival Because of Trump Support?
Franklin Graham's backing of President Donald Trump and his policy stances on refugees and immigration have offended conservative evangelical groups in Europe. Leading evangelicals and churches in Norway are reportedly withdrawing from a "revival festival" in late 2017 in Oslo where the renowned evangelist is scheduled to speak.
n a CP opinion piece Wednesday, Stefan Fisher-Høyrem, a historian in the Department of Religion, Philosophy, and History at the University of Agder, Norway, who has also taught Christian apologetics at Norway's evangelical NLA University College, noted that while politics may be local, the Church of Jesus Christ is universal. And Graham's close ties and vocal support of the 45th U.S. president is greatly harming the witness of the Gospel in Europe, he argued.
Fisher-Høyrem also cited several Norwegian evangelical leaders, Christian members of Parliament, and even the...
