Main Aims of The Council
According to the statutes of the Sami Church Council (KM 12/92) the main aims are:
- to further, protect and coordinate Sami church life in the Church of Norway
- to respond to issues that according to the council is of relevance to Sami church life or indigenous people
- to further knowledge of particular values that Sami church life and the heritage of Sami Christianity represents for the Church as a whole, and to work with issues the church needs to related to the Sami culture, tradition and history
- to contribute to the strengthening of the culture and language of the Sami population, and to further knowledge and commitment to the role of the Sami people in the Church of Norway.
- to care for relations with churches that has Sami congregations in Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula, and to further work and coordination of issues that are of common interest of the Sami Christians
- to oversee the work with indigenous question, together with the Council on Ecumenical and International Relations on behalf of the Church of Norway.
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