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Broad-shouldered, fearless Lutheran Bishop Eivind Berggrav of Oslo, who has led Norse opposition to Quisling and the Nazis, resigned his post last week in protest against their latest coercive measure...
Norway's six other Lutheran bishops followed his lead and resigned in a body, stating that they could not carry on their work "while the Quisling Government continued to cooperate with the enemy." Stockholm heard rumors that Bishop Berggrav, suspended by the Government, had been thrown into the Grini concentration camp near Oslo...
Norway's overlords have good cause to hate Bishop Berggrav. As Primate of 97%-Lutheran Norway he has stubbornly fought them at every turn, with the result that only 27 of Norway's 700 parish pastors back Quisling. Last year Eivind Berggrav and his fellow bishops defied a Nazi ban and circulated a pastoral indicting the Nazis for their interference with churches, courts and schools, their effort to make pastors break their oath of silence on matters confided to them, and "the systematic rule of terror by Nazi storm troopers...
...Lutherans last week came closer than their Lutheran brethren in Germany have yet come to praying for the victory of their nation. The National Lutheran Council, at its annual meeting in Pittsburgh, called on its members to be "strong in support of the Government in its fight for right and justice, ready and willing to make the sacrifices that are necessary for successful issue...
...German services have been discontinued at 130 Evangelical Lutheran churches in western Iowa...