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Swedish church: don't christen asylum seekers

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. READ »

Säpo warns Swedish imam over internet threat

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. 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 »

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 »

'Hell is worse for women bishops': Swedish pastor

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. READ »

The Royal Wedding: Live Blog

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. READ »

May in Sweden: A nation back in bloom

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. 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 »

'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 »

One in five priests refuse to wed same-sex couples

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. READ »

Västerås: A walk back in time

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. READ »

Church of Sweden rocked by sex scandals

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. READ »

Church nuptials closer for gays in Sweden

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. 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 »

Threesome assault pastor defrocked

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. 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 »

High court rejects gay priest marriage case

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. READ »

Government rules out gay marriage compromise

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. READ »

Porn-surfing clergyman downs church network

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. READ »

Swedish archaeologists uncover Viking-era church

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. READ »

Iraqi Christians demonstrate in Stockholm

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. READ »

High court to rule on gay marriage dispute

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. READ »

Swedish state to train imams

National: 5 Feb 08
The Swedish government has begun exploring the possibility of providing religious training for Muslim leaders. READ »

Women priests overtake men

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. READ »

Restaurant free-rider is sex offender

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'. READ »

50,000 join Stockholm Pride parade

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. 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 »

Moderate board comes out for gay marriage

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. READ »

Imams must wait for Swedish education

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. READ »

Introducing...Runar Sögaard

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. 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 »

Swedish church 'discriminates against women'

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. READ »

The Holocaust: Sweden's complex legacy

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. READ »

Swedish humour: you're joking?

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. READ »

Church of Sweden gives gay couples church blessing

National: 6 Dec 06
After much pondering the Church of Sweden has finally decided to give its blessing in church to homosexual couples. READ »

Gays could be granted church weddings

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. 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 »

Sweden followed Nazi marriage laws

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. READ »

Preachers, fascists and cartoonists

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. READ »

Prosecutor closes Swedish gay death list inquiry

Society: 1 Feb 06
An extreme right wing Christian web site which lists 129 famous homosexual Swedes along with apparent death threats taken from the Bible cannot be prosecuted - much to the dismay of those on the list. READ »

More Swedes than ever apply for priesthood

Society: 22 Jan 06
Record numbers of Swedes have their hearts set on being priests - despite the fact that membership of the Swedish Church is continuing to decline. Now the number of students may be limited. READ »

Russian church cuts ties with Sweden over gay unions

Society: 29 Dec 05
The Russian Orthodox Church has frozen relations with the Swedish Lutheran Church over its decision to bless gay unions. It says homosexuality is a "sin and a vileness" and the Swedish initiative "undermines the foundations of European civilisation". READ »

Swedish priests reject gay church blessings

Society: 4 Nov 05
More than 400 Swedish Lutheran priests have put their names to an Internet message distancing themselves from a recent Church decision to guarantee same-sex partners the right to religious blessings of their civil unions. READ »

Equal in the eyes of the law

Analysis & Opinion: 28 Oct 05
People licensed to carry out marriages will be sacked if they refuse to also carry out civil partnership ceremonies for homosexuals. Quite right too. READ »

Sweden sends aid to Pakistan

National: 10 Oct 05
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Sweden is to send blankets and tents to Pakistan in response to President Pervez Musharraf's appeal for international assistance following Saturday's devastating earthquake. READ »

Declining flock costs Swedish Church 1bn kronor

Society: 15 Sep 05
As Sunday's election approaches, the biggest headache for the Swedish Church is how to reverse declining membership. 250,000 Swedes have left the church in the last four years. READ »

Put up and shut up?

Analysis & Opinion: 1 Sep 05
It's easy for foreigners' views about a country to come out half-baked, so should we just put up and shut up? Or can a fresh pair of eyes sometimes add something new to the debate? 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 »

Foreign office: "We are fighting against time"

National: 31 Dec 04
As injured Swedes begin to leave the hospitals in Phuket and head for home, the Swedish government urges the Thai authorities not to cremate the bodies of Swedes who perished in the disaster. READ »

Swedish tourists arrive home from earthquake horror

National: 28 Dec 04
"Evacuation planes" have begun bringing Swedes home from the disaster-struck region of Phuket in Thailand. Crisis teams are in place at airports across the country. 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 »

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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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