In a truly world-unique event, the iconic Kiruna Church is set to embark on a momentous journey to its new location as part ...

Sweden A church voted the most beautiful historic building in the country is to be loaded on to hydraulic trailers and moved 5km, without being dismantled. The move, due to take place on August 19 and ...

Just about everything about the onion-domed Russian Orthodox church near the otherwise unassuming Swedish city of Vasteras seems odd: its close proximity to the airport, its taller-than-planned spire, ...

According to the Church of Sweden provisions, supported by legal paragraphs in Sweden’s Burial Act, burial associations are responsible for ensuring the availability of enough land to bury ...

The Church of Sweden, Europe’s biggest Lutheran denomination, was formally severed from government back in 2000. But its roots are deep: it traces its history to a 16th-century squabble between ...

The Church of Sweden now has more female than male priests for the first time, a sign of huge strides for gender equality since the starting allowing women to be ordained in 1960 ...

The church has about 8,000 members from 32 streets of a Stockholm neighborhood called Vasastan, which translates to the city of Vasa, named after Sweden’s first king who reigned in the 1500s.

The Sámi are the nomadic, reindeer-herding indigenous people of the northern Scandinavian peninsula. Today, they live in Sweden, Norway, Finland, and northern parts of Russia. November’s apology was ...

Sweden’s church has some 5.8 million members, representing some 57.7% of the country’s population. But many pews are empty these days, and are more likely to be occupied by women as well.

STOCKHOLM (AP) — The Church of Sweden has more female than male priests for the first time, according to numbers released this month, a sign of huge strides for gender equality since women were ...