Danish Churches Cancel Services Amid Energy Crunch
Despite being hailed as Europe’s poster child of green energy, Denmark saw a fivefold year-on-year jump in energy prices earlier this year and was forced to act accordingly, including lowering the heating in public buildings throughout the country and asking Danes to turn down the heat in their homes. | Churches around Denmark have been forced to cancel services because of the ongoing energy crisis. In the Diocese of Lolland-Falster, all 108 churches have been given permission to move or cancel services to conserve energy, and many have already made use of this arrangement, especially in the sparsely populated countryside. 💬 “It costs a lot of money to heat an old medieval church with electricity,” Bishop Marianne Gaarden told Danish media. ● Similar decisions have been made in the dioceses of Aarhus and Viborg, each of which comprises hundreds of churches although church authorities have promised that transport will be arranged for churchgoers who find that they have to travel further to get to a church which is still functioning.