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Church of Sweden to conduct gay weddings

Uppsala : Sweden | about 1 month ago  
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  • Chairman of the Synod of the Lutheran Church of Sweden talks with reporters at a news conference in Uppsala
    Chairman of the Synod of the Lutheran Church of Sweden talks with ...
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  • Delegates vote in favour of allowing church weddings for homosexuals at a meeting of the Lutheran Church of Sweden in Uppsala
    Delegates vote in favour of allowing church weddings for homosexuals ...
    Source: Reuters
  • Archbishop, chairman and bishop of the Lutheran Church of Sweden meet with reporters at a news conference in Uppsala
    Archbishop, chairman and bishop of the Lutheran Church of Sweden meet ...
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  • Delegates vote in favour of allowing same sex marriages in churches at the annual Church of Sweden meeting in Uppsala
    Delegates vote in favour of allowing same sex marriages in churches at ...
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  • Sibbmark, chairman and bishop of the Synod of the Lutheran Church of Sweden and Hagberg, the bishop of Karlstad parish, meet with reporters at a news conference in Uppsala
    Sibbmark, chairman and bishop of the Synod of the Lutheran Church of ...
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Chairman of the Synod of the Lutheran Church of Sweden talks with ...
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 wedding proposal 176-73, the Swedish News Agency TT...
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  • 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...
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