Published on
30/06/2026 - 8:03 GMT+2
Denmark is often described as one of Europe’s most secular countries. Yet every spring, thousands of teenagers still dress up and walk into church for confirmation, a Christian rite that has become one of the country’s defining coming-of-age rituals.
According to the Church of Denmark, 64.2% of the confirmation-age cohort were confirmed in 2025, down from around 70% a decade earlier.
Now, a growing number of young Danes are looking for ways to mark the same transition without confirming a Christian faith.
