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The Swedish 'julbord': a beginner's guide

Lifestyle: 22 Dec 11
No Swedish-style Christmas is complete without a julbord buffet. Food blogger Maia Brindley Nilsson takes a look at what goes into making the perfect Swedish Christmas meal. READ »

Ten soul-satisfying Swedish comfort foods

Lifestyle: 25 Nov 11
As the darkness and chill of Sweden's winter gathers pace, food blogger Maia Brindley Nilsson offers up a list of ten Swedish comfort foods to keep your belly full and nourish your sun-starved soul. READ »

All Saint’s Day pastry king crowned

Society: 5 Nov 11
A special pastry available in Sweden only on the All Saint's Day weekend has hit the shelves. The cake honors the death of the nation's warrior king, Gustav Adolf II. READ »

Who is really out of place when a religious service opens parliament?

Analysis & Opinion: 19 Sep 11
Sweden Democrat leader Jimmy Åkesson's complaint that an imam 'politicised' the religious service that opened the Riksdag last week, raises an interesting point about the place of religion and in Swedish politics, argues contributor Ruben Brunsveld. READ »

Sex and the human form - Robert Mapplethorpe raises eyebrows

Lifestyle: 12 Jul 11
US photographer Robert Mapplethorpe is the subject of a major new exhibition at Stockholm’s Fotografiska museum which recently fell foul of the social media censor, contributor Katherine Dunn paid a visit to see what all the fuss is about. READ »

Swedish royals make historic visit in Poland

Society: 7 May 11
Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf became the first Swedish monarch to visit the world's largest wooden church in Poland, a UNESCO site funded by the King's ancestors more than 300 years ago. READ »

'God's House' being built in suburban Stockholm

Analysis & Opinion: 2 Mar 11
As religious tensions continue to cause friction in Sweden and elsewhere, Lutherans, Catholics, and Muslims near Stockholm have come together to present a new model for religious tolerance, The Local's Geoff Mortimore discovers. READ »

Priests in Sweden join the ranks of paedophiles

Society: 27 Feb 11
The Catholic Church of Sweden confirms three priests are believed to have sexually abused children over the span of 30 years. READ »

The Lowdown: Lucia

Lifestyle: 13 Dec 10
It's one of the most enduring Swedish winter traditions. The tradition of Lucia brings some much needed light into Sweden's winter darkness, The Local's James Savage explains. READ »

Global demonstrations call for Assange's release

National: 11 Dec 10
A number of demonstrations are set to take place around the world on Saturday to call for the release of beleaguered WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from a London prison, where he awaits possible extradition to Sweden to face rape charges. READ »

All Saints: lighting a candle for the past

Lifestyle: 5 Nov 10
This weekend is All Saints, Allhelgonahelg, when every graveyard in Sweden bathes in the glow of hundreds of flickering candles lit by Swedes coming to remember their dead. READ »

Live Blog: parliament opens

Politics: 5 Oct 10
Another eventful day in Swedish politics has come to a close with Fredrik Reinfeldt having presented his new government, the Sweden Democrats having added a little colour and outraged drama, and the king having calmly reminded the Riksdag of its role as a bastion of Swedish democracy. READ »

Swedes incur US anger over 'slacker' Jesus show

Society: 15 Jul 10
Comedy Central, the US TV channel which broadcasts South Park, has shown that it is not afraid of further controversy after buying in a Swedish idea for a show about Jesus living a regular life in New York, angering US Christian groups. READ »

Sweden celebrates national day

National: 6 Jun 10
While the Swedish national day is largely a low key affair, the upcoming royal wedding has lent an extra spice to the celebrations this year with the public invited to the palace to express their goodwill for the happy couple. READ »

Catholics upset by young socialists’ erect pope pic

Society: 28 May 10
The Catholic Church in Sweden has expressed dismay at the publication by the youth wing of the Social Democrats of a caricature of Pope Benedict XVI sporting an erection in the presence of a child. READ »

Minister: Catholic Church should investigate

National: 30 Apr 10
After a series of reports of sexual abuse within the Catholic Church of Sweden, Bishop Anders Arborelius wants the state to investigate, but the church minister has expressed reluctance, arguing that the church can manage on its own. READ »

Allegations mount against Catholic Church

Society: 28 Apr 10
The sexual abuse allegations against the Catholic church in Sweden continue to grow as a further victim alleges that she was abused at a children's home. READ »

Bishop 'ready to resign' over sex abuse silence

National: 26 Apr 10
Bishop Anders Arborelius has said that he is "prepared to take the consequences" over the failure to investigate the alleged abuse of two sisters by a paedophile priest, first brought to the Catholic Church's attention in 1990. READ »

Swedish Catholic Church hid sex abuse claims

National: 25 Apr 10
The Catholic Church in Sweden has known for twenty years of claims that two young girls were sexually abused by a priest in the 1950s and 1960s, according to media reports. READ »

Rogue British bishop fined for Holocaust denial

National: 16 Apr 10
A rebel British bishop was fined €10,000 ($13,534) by a German court on Friday for denying the Holocaust in an interview with a Swedish television channel. READ »

'Catholics in Sweden must challenge Rome'

Analysis & Opinion: 14 Apr 10
The Catholic Church in Sweden must demand that the Vatican abolish celibacy for priests, allow women to be ordained, stop oppressing homosexuals, and reverse its ban on contraception, argues Swedish Catholic and poet Marcus Birro. READ »

Bishop begs forgiveness for Catholic priest abuse

National: 14 Apr 10
The Catholic Church in Sweden has confirmed the receipt of two reports of child sexual abuse perpetrated by priests as Bishop Anders Aborelius sought forgiveness on Tuesday. READ »

Profile: Sweden's new EU minister Birgitta Ohlsson

Analysis & Opinion: 2 Feb 10
Birgitta Ohlsson was named as Sweden's new EU minister on Tuesday. An outspoken advocate of feminism, equality and civil liberties issues, as well as a keen supporter of Nato membership, Ohlsson also harbours dreams of a top UN human rights post. READ »

Members flee Church of Sweden in droves

Society: 1 Dec 09
The Church of Sweden is bleeding members at an increasingly rapid pace, at the same time as membership rolls in Islamic, Roman Catholic, and Orthodox Christian assemblies are on the rise. READ »

Swedish comic to exact TV revenge on Vatican

Society: 13 Nov 09
Gay Swedish comic and author Jonas Gardell has announced plans to use his religious TV programme to respond to a snub from the Vatican to bar him from Rome's churches claiming that Jesus would not have shut him out. READ »

Carnal knowledge: A sex scandal made in Sweden

Analysis & Opinion: 2 Nov 09
Classroom warfare has erupted in Sweden as conservative commentators are appalled by what they view as a "try everything" approach to sex education in the nation's schools, writes The Local's Christine Demsteader. READ »

Church of Sweden says yes to gay marriage

National: 22 Oct 09
The Synod of the Lutheran Church of Sweden has come down in favour of church weddings for homosexuals in a vote held on Thursday morning. READ »

Vatican 'knew of bishop's Holocaust denials'

National: 23 Sep 09
The Vatican was aware of statements by a rebel bishop in which he questioned the existence of the Nazi gas chambers before it decided to lift the bishop's excommunication, according to a Stockholm bishop. READ »

Swedish MP: I don't want to force abortion on Ireland

Society: 4 Aug 09
Swedish MP Birgitta Ohlsson has denied she wants to use the EU's Lisbon Treaty to impose liberal abortion laws on other countries. She just wants a debate, she says. READ »

Anglo-Swedish rift over church gay marriage

Society: 16 Jul 09
The Church of England has condemned a proposal by the Church of Sweden to grant same-sex couples the right to religious wedding ceremonies. READ »

Liberals launch EU pro-choice abortion initiative

Politics: 2 Jun 09
The Swedish Liberal party has launched a new initiative to give the women of Europe the right to choose to have an abortion and establish abortion as a human right. READ »

Ministers argue girls' right to sex ed

National: 31 May 09
Liberal party ministers Jan Björklund and Nyamko Sabuni have proposed a new schools law which removes the right to seek exemption from sexual education and swimming classes. READ »

Germany denied help in bishop probe

National: 9 Apr 09
The Swedish Chancellor of Justice has rejected a request from German prosecutors to require an SVT journalist to testify against Catholic bishop Richard Williamson, who denied the Holocaust in a January television broadcast. READ »

'Priest' hides amphetamines under cassock

National: 21 Mar 09
A Polish man wearing a priest's cassock tried to smuggle 600 grammes of amphetamines through Trelleborg harbour in southern Sweden on Friday. READ »

SVT denies Vatican conspiracy rumours

Society: 4 Feb 09
The journalist for Sveriges Television (SVT) who conducted an interview with conservative Catholic bishop Richard Williamson in which he denied the Holocaust, has denied allegations that SVT was involved in a plot to damage Pope Benedict XVI. READ »

Conservative group apologizes to Pope over Holocaust remarks

Society: 28 Jan 09
Remarks questioning the facts of the Holocaust made by a member of the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) and broadcast on Swedish television have prompted the group to apologize to the Pope. READ »

TV interview sparks Holocaust denial probe

Society: 23 Jan 09
An interview broadcast on Swedish television this week has caused German prosecutors to launch an investigation against a controversial British bishop suspected of inciting racial hatred. READ »

Church furor over 'racist' religious group

Society: 22 Jan 09
The Church of Sweden on Thursday cited lax oversight as the reason why a conservative religious group aiming to convert Sweden to Catholicism and with leaders who deny the Holocaust was given permission to hold meetings in Swedish churches. READ »

Sweden seen as land of bribes in EU sculpture

Society: 16 Jan 09
A controversial art installation in Brussels has made a less-than-subtle jab at Sweden’s alleged involvement in attempts to bribe Czech politicians into approving a massive fighter jet order earlier in the decade. READ »

Boys blocked from bearing 'girls-only' Lucia crown

National: 12 Dec 08
While generally supportive of equality between the sexes, Swedes still resist tampering with the Lucia holiday tradition which stipulates only girls should bear a candle-lit crown on December 13th. READ »

A marriage made in Sweden and America

Dating: 15 Sep 08
How do a couple that met in London, live in Sweden and speak both English and Swedish plan their happy day? Ben Kersley (Englishman and ‘sambo’) attends a Swedish/American wedding. READ »

Pious pets get Swedish church blessing

Society: 2 Jun 08
Choral hymns accompanied by barking dogs made for a blessed mix as a church in southern Sweden welcomed four-legged visitors to Sunday services. READ »

Gay marriage and defence in focus at Moderate conference

Politics: 25 Oct 07
Fredrik Reinfeldt's Moderate Party starts its annual conference on Thursday with a mountain to climb if it is to recover the poll rating it enjoyed when it was elected just over a year ago. READ »

Catholic church apologises for sex attacks

Society: 20 Jul 07
Sweden's Catholic church has apologised for sex attacks against a child that were committed by a priest 50 years ago. The apology emerged in the form of a newspaper advertisements. READ »

Inquiry gives green light to gay marriage

Society: 21 Mar 07
An official inquiry has proposed that Sweden allow same-sex couples to marry on the same terms as heterosexuals. As well as protests from religious groups, gay campaigners are angry that priests would still be allowed to refuse to officiate at gay weddings. READ »

German controversy over Swedish childcare

Society: 27 Feb 07
Swedish nursery schools are psychologically damaging for children and turn women into "baby machines," German television has heard from a Catholic bishop and a sociologist. READ »

Hägglund defends abortion plans

Society: 26 Feb 07
Allowing foreign women to travel to Sweden for abortions could lead to fewer illegal abortions, Social Affairs minister Göran Hägglund has said following criticism from church leaders. READ »

Church leaders threaten government over abortion

Politics: 25 Feb 07
Two of Sweden's most influential church leaders have threatened to encourage Christians to vote against the government at the next election, after Christian Democrat leader Göran Hägglund approved loosening abortion restrictions. READ »

Cannibal locked up after threats

Society: 10 Jan 07
A man convicted of killing his girlfriend and eating her body parts is suspected of sending a string of threatening letters to people in southern Sweden. "It's outrageous that he was released," says one of those threatened. READ »

Swedish artist commits cardinal sin in Rome

National: 7 Dec 06
Italian police brought Swedish artist Elisabeth Ohlson Wallin’s photo shoot to a hasty end in Rome last Saturday. It seems cardinals with erections are frowned upon in the Catholic country. READ »

Sweden slams EU divorce proposal

Society: 18 Nov 06
Sweden has criticised EU plans to harmonise divorce rules, arguing that it could lead to family law from countries such as Iran being applied in Europe. READ »

Right Livelihood award split three ways

Society: 28 Sep 06
The 'Alternative Nobel Prize' for human rights and social justice has been awarded to Vietnam whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, along with an Indian women's rights campaigner and a Colombian festival organizer. READ »

Say a little prayer for Sweden

Lifestyle: 11 Aug 06
Christianity in Sweden has a long history, but you won't find many Swedes in the pews on a Sunday. But that doesn't mean Swedish religious groups don't have the capacity to cause a stir, as Christine Demsteader reports. READ »

Digitally digging for Stockholm graves

Lifestyle: 5 Apr 06
Wondering where your distant Swedish relatives are buried? Or perhaps where Ingrid Bergman was laid to rest? Well, now you can dig through over half a million graves in the Swedish capital - digitally. READ »

Vatican slams Sweden on religious freedom

Society: 30 Jun 05
A report from the Catholic Church has said that religious freedom in Sweden is under threat. The prosecution of anti-gay pastor Åke Green has put Sweden on a Catholic blacklist with China and Nigeria. READ »

King leads Sweden?s tributes to Pope

National: 3 Apr 05
Sweden’s politicians and church leaders react to the death of John Paul II. The government extends its sympathy to “the millions of people throughout the world who have lost their spiritual leader," as Swedish Catholics gather in Stockholm to mark the Pope's passing. READ »

Boy arrested for murder of Swede in India

National: 22 Mar 05
An 18 year old boy is arrested for the murder of a Swedish woman in India. The 59 year old artist had been staying at a meditation retreat. READ »

Is the Pope Catholic?

Lifestyle: 14 Jan 05
Don't ask a Swedish student. Aftonbladet reviews the religious education provided in Swedish schools and finds political correctness, political correctness and political correctness. Oh, and some amusing errors. READ »

20 things to know before moving to Sweden

As diverse as Sweden is, there are a few societal norms that are distinctly Swedish. Understanding a handful of them will hopefully prepare you culturally before you relocate. When you're invited home to a Swede, you better be on time and take your shoes off, writes expat Lola Akinmade-Åkerström. Read more »

How far can English take you in Sweden?

Sweden is a country where almost everyone can speak English. So why bother to learn Swedish? Edina Varnagy from Hungary managed with English for a whole year but then found that Swedish could open doors – to a job, a social life and greater understanding. Read more »

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