May 28, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "Priest":
Lifestyle: 25 Apr 12
The Singalong Sound of Music has returned to Stockholm - and there really is no kitscher way to enjoy a trip to the cinema, discovers The Local's James Savage.
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National: 17 Apr 12
The father and step-mother of a 14-year-old girl from western Sweden, charged with repeatedly beating and burning the girl because they “thought she was a witch”, were freed of all charges on Tuesday.
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National: 13 Apr 12
Another teenage girl from western Sweden has reported being subjected to kicks, beatings and electric shocks, as her parents tried to exorcise her from evil spirits.
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Business & Money: 28 Mar 12
Ikea has denied a request by a local politician in Italy urging that four of his friends be hired at a new branch of the Swedish furniture retailing giant, which has received 30,000 applications to fill 220 positions.
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Society: 20 Mar 12
The final wish of a Swedish man who died last week will never be realized, as his pet dog won't be allowed to attend his dead owner's funeral.
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Science & Technology: 21 Dec 11
By handing its official Twitter account over to regular citizens, including a priest, a teacher and a ”coffee-drinking bull-dyke", Sweden defends its reputation as one of the world's most democratic nations, The Local's Rebecca Martin discovers.
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Lifestyle: 8 Jun 11
American funnyman Stephen Lynch, the self-professed "musician trapped in the body of a comedian", is all revved to bring his "Beefy Burrito" back to Sweden, The Local's Geoff Mortimore discovers.
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National: 3 Apr 11
The Church of Sweden has advised pastors to avoid christening asylum seekers that have converted to Christianity due to the risk of reprisals in the case of repatriation.
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Society: 15 Mar 11
Swedish security service Säpo have expressed concerns about the safety of a Swedish imam who was recently hired by the Church of Sweden to work with teenagers at a Stockholm youth centre.
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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.
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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.
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Society: 5 Nov 10
A Church of Sweden pastor in Gothenburg has lost his pastor's licence after admitting to buying sex from a prostitute.
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Society: 4 Nov 10
A Church of Sweden pastor could lose his job over comments regarding the suitability of women priests to spread the word of God, including the assertion that there were worse "grades of punishment in hell" for female bishops.
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Society: 25 Aug 10
Sweden’s highest court has refused to hear a last-ditch plea by the Madonna of the Orgasm church to be recognized.
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Society: 29 Jul 10
The Church of Sweden is being asked to introduce football-style penalties for swearing, after a priest used foul language at last year’s meeting of the church’s governing body.
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National: 19 Jun 10
Today's the day that Crown Princess Victoria will get her man of the people. We'll be following the whole thing live - with reporters around Stockholm providing the latest news, reactions and (hopefully) informed speculation from the Royal Wedding.
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National: 20 May 10
A decision by Crown Princess Victoria to be given away by her father at her wedding next month has caused dismay among Swedish church leaders, who view the practice as foreign and sexist.
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Lifestyle: 30 Apr 10
The Year in Sweden - May: Journalist Kim Loughran sketches a month by month account of the country he has called home ever since his accidental migration in 1966.
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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.
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National: 29 Apr 10
A small business owner is suing Google Sweden for defamation, alleging Google hits link to blogs that call him a paedophile.
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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.
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Lifestyle: 26 Apr 10
At Skänninge prison, twelve lifers and long-termers are being given the chance to live in a monastic community. They are the result of a unique Jesuit experiment. Lysanne Sizoo spent a day with the Brothers.
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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.
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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.
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Society: 19 Apr 10
Opera-singing nurse Freddy Amigo is being billed as Sweden's answer to Paul Potts after a show-stopping performance on talent show Talang 2010.
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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.
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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.
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Society: 12 Apr 10
A suicidal man who sought the help of a Church of Sweden pastor for night-time helpline solace was left bitterly disappointed when his holy interlocutor fell fast asleep.
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National: 28 Dec 09
Five chilled and hungry Afghan teenagers stumbled into a southern Swedish town on Christmas Eve after being left by smugglers in a deserted stretch of forest days earlier, a priest who had taken them in said Sunday.
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National: 19 Dec 09
On Friday, a court in western Sweden elected not to remand the 60-year-old Church of Sweden pastor accused sexually abusing two minor boys during an overseas trip with a group of candidates for confirmation.
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National: 17 Dec 09
A 60-year-old Church of Sweden pastor faces a remand hearing this Friday for the alleged sexual abuse of two children during an overseas trip with a group of candidates for confirmation.
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National: 7 Nov 09
A week has passed since homosexual couples were given the right to tie the knot in church. Yet, 18 percent of priests in the Gothenburg region say they refuse to preside over gay weddings.
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Society: 2 Oct 09
A family from Skåne in southern Sweden has demanded compensation from the Church of Sweden claiming that the pastor employed to conduct a funeral had consumed a glass too many in the vestry.
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Society: 24 Aug 09
Rare Swedish films from the early 20th century are among those unearthed in a cellar in Poland, the country's national film library announced on Friday.
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Travel: 2 Jul 09
As classic cars assemble for the annual Power Big Meet, Robert La Bua takes in the medieval charm of host town Västerås.
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National: 15 Jun 09
The Church of Sweden has already been shaken by several sex scandals this year. Archbishop Anders Wejryd regrets the incidents, and maintains that transparency is the best policy.
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National: 13 Jun 09
The board of the Church of Sweden has proposed that same sex-couples be granted the right to religious wedding ceremonies. A final decision is expected in October.
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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.
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Lifestyle: 26 Feb 09
What's on in Sweden: J.Tillman & world class dance in Stockholm; Judas Priest & Timo Räisänen in Gothenburg; Frida Hyvönen in Malmö/Lund.
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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.
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Society: 22 Jan 09
A pastor convicted of assaulting his ex-wife following sex games involving another man has been relieved of his duties by his employer, the Church of Sweden.
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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.
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Society: 16 Dec 08
A homosexual couple have lost their case in the Supreme Administrative Court against the Swedish tax authority for registering their marriage in Canada as a partnership.
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Society: 19 Nov 08
The Madonna of Orgasm Church took an important step toward official recognition in Sweden last week when a court ruled it had the right to be registered as a faith community.
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Dating: 3 Nov 08
Two young women from Sweden tied the knot at the weekend in the first known lesbian "marriage" near India's famed Taj Mahal, newspapers said on Monday.
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Politics: 25 Oct 08
The Moderates, Liberal party (Folkpartiet) and Centre party have rejected calls from the Christian Democrats for a compromise over gay marriage in the face of a threatened revolt by government MPs.
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Society: 20 Oct 08
A church minister from Strängnäs in central Sweden has resigned from his post after his porn-surfing habits led to the spread of a virus that knocked out the local church network.
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Society: 16 Oct 08
A vicar from northern Sweden has been blasted by a prayer group for allowing a rock band to film a video in an area church.
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National: 3 Oct 08
The remains of a Viking-era stave church, including the skeletal remains of a woman, have been uncovered near the cemetery of the Lännäs church in Odensbacken outside Örebro in central Sweden.
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National: 15 Jul 08
A mix-up at a hospital in Karlstad in western Sweden led to relatives holding a burial service for the wrong man.
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National: 20 Jun 08
A rooftop church cross has mysteriously disappeared from a Serbian orthodox church in Malmö, southern Sweden.
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National: 9 Jun 08
Sweden’s Labour Court has ruled in favour of a priest who felt he was unlawfully fired for having an affair with a married woman in his congregation.
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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.
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National: 26 May 08
Hundreds gathered in Stockholm on Sunday to highlight attacks on Christians in Iraq, days before a United Nations conference on Iraqi peace and development opens near the city.
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National: 10 May 08
A homosexual couple has taken the Swedish tax authorities to the Supreme Administrative Court for registering their marriage in Canada as a partnership.
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Society: 9 Feb 08
Gothenburg has got its first female dean. Karin Burstrand has been appointed following a church sex scandal.
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National: 5 Feb 08
The Swedish government has begun exploring the possibility of providing religious training for Muslim leaders.
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National: 28 Jan 08
Elisabeth Djurle and Margit Sahlin were the first women to be ordained as priests in the Church of Sweden. Now more than one in three parish priests is female.
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National: 17 Jan 08
An Orthodox priest in Stockholm has been jailed for having sex with his mentally disabled daughter.
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Society: 29 Oct 07
A church in Västerås is asking parishioners to donate enough pieces of white Lego to create a life-size statue of Jesus.
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Society: 27 Sep 07
Archaeologists have uncovered a one thousand-year-old portable altar near an old stone church at an excavation site in Varnhem in western Sweden. "A fabulous find," says one archaeologist.
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Society: 21 Sep 07
A priest in Stockholm has come under fire for not allowing a bride to be walked down the aisle by her father. But church authorities have defended the decision, saying that the tradition is foreign and sexist.
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Lifestyle: 10 Sep 07
Sweden-based American journalist Doug Lansky is the man behind new Swedish satire site Faktumé. He explains to James Savage why humour transcends boundaries.
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Society: 10 Sep 07
The Pentecostalist Church in Sweden has called on its members to leave the Church of Sweden after a priest gave an interpretation of the Bible which it claims is a defence of paedophilia.
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Travel: 5 Sep 07
This weekend offers the last opportunity to visit a sandy, car-free outpost of Gotland. Fiona Basile finds camping out on Gotska Sandön to be a magical experience.
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Society: 5 Sep 07
A church minister in a village near Kalmar in southern Sweden struggled to cope when two sisters arrived at the altar with immediate plans to wed men named Mattias.
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National: 19 Aug 07
A British man who ate a meal worth 139,000 kronor at one of Stockholm's best restaurants and then refused to pay has been revealed as a convicted sex offender. John Cronin has also been described as 'Scotland's most infamous fraudster'.
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Society: 4 Aug 07
Some 50,000 people have marched through Stockholm on Saturday in the 2007 Stockholm Pride parade, while half a million people lined the streets. Drag queens and muscle men were joined by police, priests and politicians.
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Society: 2 Aug 07
The Swedish Lutheran Church will march for the first time in the Gay Pride parade in Stockholm under the slogan "Love is stronger than everything", the Church announced on Thursday.
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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.
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Politics: 16 Jun 07
The Moderate Party, the largest party in Sweden's coalition government, has thrown its support behind same-sex marriage. The party's board voted in favour of a gender-neutral marriage law on Friday.
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Society: 22 May 07
More tea, vicar? Sometimes the best answer is no, as a priest in Malmö found out after his beverage was spiked with speed and he was convicted of driving under the influence.
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Society: 12 May 07
Sweden might be seen by the rest of the world as a secular country, but still 40 percent of 15-year-olds get confirmed into the Church of Sweden, although this is down from 80 percent 35 years ago.
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Society: 24 Apr 07
Sweden's education minister wants to wait until Muslim organizations have reached full agreement before introducing a national education programme for trainee imams.
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Lifestyle: 10 Apr 07
It takes a special kind of man to be an Pentacostal preacher, a tireless Stockholm socialite and Carola's ex-husband. But Runar Sögaard takes it all in his stride, as Paul O'Mahony explains.
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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.
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National: 16 Mar 07
The Church of Sweden's leaders have said that they are ready to become the first major world denomination to allow gay people to marry in church on the same basis as heterosexual couples.
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Society: 8 Mar 07
The Church of Sweden is to be investigated by equality chiefs, who suspect it of sex discrimination, despite it having ordained women since 1958.
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Society: 10 Feb 07
A priest who was defrocked after apparently surfing pornographic web sites on church time has been paid an undisclosed sum by the Swedish Church.
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Society: 30 Jan 07
Calle Montell broke his tooth on a cherry biscuit. As he was trying to sell stoves at the time he demanded compensation. A four year court battle ensued.
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Analysis & Opinion: 26 Jan 07
Bystander in the Second World War, yet refuge for victims of the Nazis. A leader in promoting tolerance, yet with a resurgent far-right. David Stavrou looks at the complex legacy of the Holocaust in Sweden.
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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.
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Lifestyle: 19 Dec 06
Many foreigners think Swedish humour is as amusing as Björn Borg - but there's a rich seam of ribaldry below the surface. Christine Demsteader looks at what makes Sweden laugh.
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Society: 13 Dec 06
The Church of Sweden is to allow burial ceremonies for aborted foetuses. The procedure is to be called a 'pastoral ceremony' and will not be accompanied by a church service.
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National: 6 Dec 06
After much pondering the Church of Sweden has finally decided to give its blessing in church to homosexual couples.
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National: 25 Nov 06
A Swedish woman and her daughter were killed on Friday when their car collided with a truck on the highway between Cairo and Upper Egypt. Their Egyptian driver also died.
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National: 4 Nov 06
Seven years ago Jackie Arklöv shot two policemen dead. On Friday he will appear in court accused of Balkan war crimes. Now he is lecturing to police students who visit him in prison.
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National: 3 Oct 06
A man and a five-year old girl have died after a tractor turned over on top of them at a farm in Dalsland, central Sweden, on Tuesday morning.
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National: 25 Aug 06
Churches will be allowed to marry gay couples if the government follows proposals contained in a report due to be presented next year. Priests themselves will be able to choose whether to preside over gay marriages.
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National: 15 Aug 06
A man working at a church northwest of Stockholm has been remanded in custody for a very, very unsavoury deed.
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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.
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Politics: 27 Jul 06
Calling religion an 'opium of the people' is 'vulgar Marxism', Left Party leader Lars Ohly told a pre-election questioning session at a church on Öland. He also said that the Greens were to the right of Göran Persson.
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Society: 30 Jun 06
A Church of Sweden priest sexually assaulted a woman he met on a Christian website. When the woman invited him home for tea the priest lay on top of her and made sex-like movements, a court finds.
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Politics: 14 Jun 06
Sweden's education minister Ibrahim Baylan has married his long-standing partner in a secret ceremony in Norrland - presided over by the prime minister himself.
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National: 13 Jun 06
A nine-year old boy is dead after a tuck crashed into a school bus in Våxtorp, north of Helsingborg, on Tuesday afternoon. A further eleven children escaped without injury.
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National: 7 Jun 06
Bobby's mother is taken by prison guards to bury the son she is accused of murdering. The church is decorated with 7,000 roses sent in by members of the public.
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National: 15 May 06
The stepfather denied abusing the ten year old boy at the trial in Eksjö. He denies most of what the mother had told the court. According to him, the mother is chiefly responsible for Bobby's death and was "practically ecstatic" when he died.
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Society: 20 Apr 06
Gay rights group RFSL has announced plans to hold a gay pride parade in the home town of anti-gay pastor Åke Green. Of course I'm not happy about this, says Green.
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National: 4 Apr 06
For ten years up until the end of the Second World War, Swedes who wanted to marry Germans were forced to prove that they were not Jewish. And 'racially impure' marriages could be annulled by Swedish courts.
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Lifestyle: 15 Feb 06
Freedom of speech or the right not to be offended? Sweden, with large immigrant groups and a liberal free-speech culture, has been wrestling with these issues long before the Muhammad cartoons burst onto the international scene.
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