Author Carsten Jensen italks with preses Helga Haugland Byfuglien about refugees.
Danish Danish Carsten Jensen has shown great commitment to displaced persons, not least in his latest book Hodestuperne (The head divers), the Norwegian translation of which is to published during Olav's Festival.
Preces in The Norwegian church, Helga Haugland Byfuglien, has called for the Norwegian government to bring children of IS fighters home to Norway.
Together, Jensen and Byfuglien will reflect on the precarious situation of refugees in the world today.
Carsten Jensen is an author and journalist, born in 1952 in Marstal. Over the years, he has written for newspapers in several countries, and since 1981 has published a number of novels, essays, articles and not least accounts of his many trips around the world. The big reader success came with the travel books Jeg har sett verden begynne (I have seen the beginning of the world) (1996) and eg har hørt et stjerneskudd (I have heard a shooting star) (1997). In the novel Vi, de druknede (We, the drowned) (2006), he tells of four generations of Danish seafarers from his hometown Marstal. This book has been published in more than twenty countries and has sold over half a million copies.
Carsten Jensen has received a number of awards and accolades for his ardent work, and he does not seem to run out of topics. In 2016 came the documentary Krigen som aldri tar slutt (The neverending war), on the war in Afghanistan in collaboration with Norwegian journalist Anders Hammer,. In the debate book from last fall, Kjellermennesker (Celler people)deals with populism and the difficulty of being human the chaotic present. This is the first of a pamphlet series, the second boo was published this spring, Mot stjernene (Towards the stars) addressed young people in Europe today. The third in the series Hodestuperne (The head divers)will be launched during Olav's Festival and is about refugees. Here he strongly challenges how we talk about, think about and treat people who are on the run.
Helga Haugland Byfuglien, born in 1950, she was elected first female preses of The Norwegian Church on October 2, 2010, becoming the first woman to lead the diocesan college. She was also named the first preses to hold a permanent position in Norway in March 2011.
elga Haugland Byfuglien graduated from The Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society in 1976 with a degree in practical theological in the spring of 1977 and was ordained in 1981. From 1981 to 1986 she was chaplain of the Kolstad congregation in the diocese of Nidaros. In 1986, she took up the post of chaplain of Ås Parish in Borg Diocese, where she served until 1993. Later she was diocesan chaplain and counselor to the bishop of Borg. Byfuglien was assistant general secretary of the KFUK-KFUM from 1997–2001, and secretary general from 2001–2005. On September 23, 2005, she was consecrated as the third female bishop in Norway, to Borg Diocese.
She has also spoken on the daily religious slot on RK and writes a columni in Vårt Land.
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