News Source: United Press International
| about 1 month ago
The Lutheran Church of Sweden, of which 74 percent of Swedes are members, announced Thursday it will conduct wedding ceremonies for homosexuals. The governing board of the Synod of the Lutheran Church of Sweden in Uppsala, Sweden, passed the gay...
News Source: Fox News
| about 1 month ago
The Church of Sweden has decided to allow its priests to wed same-sex couples in new gender-neutral church ceremonies. Thursday's decision was favored in a 176-62 church board vote...In May, Sweden introduced a new law giving gay couples the same...
News Source: Chicago Tribune
| about 1 month ago
Sweden's Lutheran church decided on Thursday to conduct gay weddings in the Nordic country from next month. "We are the first major church to do this," said Kristina Grenholm, the church's director of theology. The decision came after the Swedish...