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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Sweden has opened up a probe into a Russian Orthodox church in the town of Västerås over possible links to the Kremlin’s hybrid warfare techniques. An investigation by outlet France24 revealed that ...

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 first allowed to be ...