Faderhuset (the Father's House) was a Danish

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free church based in the Copenhagen capital region. Faderhuset was best known for acquiring the ownership of the building in central

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known as ''

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'', a building also claimed by young people from the Danish

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movement. Ungdomshuset figured prominently in world news the first week of March 2007 as riots broke out between the youth

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in Ungdomshuset and the local police. Faderhuset was founded in 1990 by the married couple Knut and Ruth Evensen who were involved in its leadership until the church closed down on January 1, 2014. Both have been involved in Christian movements since the 1970s. They started their own religious community in the beginning of the 80s in the

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district of Copenhagen. As of January 2007 the church had 120 members and was an approved religious community by the Danish state. The group had close ties to a Christian

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known as Samuelsskolen, which was closed by the Danish

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because they were concerned with some of the practices at the school.''Folketingets uddannelsesudvalg''
. Samuelsskolen used

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material. This is a curriculum developed in the

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by evangelicals which teaches that the Christian Bible is the source of

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and that

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undermines the notion of

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and the need for

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. However, the ministry had other reasons to close Samuelsskolen, and have allowed other Christian schools to continue using this material . On 7 July 2007, Ruth Evensen started the Freedom Party ( da, Frihedspartiet).

References

External links

Faderhusets official homepage
. Christian organizations Christian organizations based in Denmark Christian organizations established in 1990 {{Christian-denomination-stub