OSLO (Reuters) -The Church of Norway apologised on Thursday to the country’s LGBTQ+ community for decades of discrimination, acknowledging the institution had caused harm to gay people and thanking those who campaigned for change.

Presiding Bishop Olav Fykse Tveit delivered the apology at the London Pub in Oslo, a gay bar that was the site of a shooting in June 2022 in which two people were killed during the city’s Pride celebrations.

Speaking on behalf of Norway’s Bishops’ Conference, Tveit said the world is a better place when people are free to love who they want to.

“The church in Norway has imposed shame, great harm and pain… this should not have happened, and that is why I apologise today,” Tveit said.

The apology follows a 2022 acknowledgment by the church’s bishops that the ins

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