Stockholm, July 24, 2020: The Church of Sweden has announced that the majority of its priests are now women. Of the 3,060 priests currently ministering in the denomination, 1,533 are female, which equates to 50.1 percent. Cristina Grenholm, secretary for the Church of Sweden, told AFP: “From a historical perspective,Continue Reading
Catholic Mass will be celebrated in the mediaeval cathedral in the Swedish city of Lund for the first time since the Reformation. The Lutheran Church of Sweden has offered the cathedral as a temporary place of worship to the Catholic parish of St Thomas, whose church will be closed forContinue Reading
Rome: Even though it is one of the most secularized nations in the world, Sweden is one of the few countries in Europe where the Catholic Church is growing, said the country’s first cardinal. This kind of revival shows “it is possible to live a good life as a churchContinue Reading
A Christian preschool in Sweden has banned children from saying grace at mealtimes, talking about the Bible, or saying “Amen”. The decision to forbid children at the school in Umea to engage in religious practices was reached after a school inspection. The municipality’s supervisors in charge of education noted thatContinue Reading
London: Sweden has run out of garbage and the Scandinavian country has been forced to import rubbish from other countries to keep its state-of-the-art recycling plants going. Sweden, which sources almost half its electricity from renewables, was one of the first countries to implement a heavy tax on fossil fuelsContinue Reading