Tag: Sweden
Church of Sweden Slammed for Offering Job to Murderer, Mocking Jesus
CCO Sputniknews - 6/11/17 The Church of Sweden has triggered criticism from its worshippers by offering a job to a former pastor convicted of murder and ... Read More
Church of Sweden Caught Sheltering Illegal Migrants Amid Projected Influx
CC0 / jubild Sputniknews - 29/8/17 The Church of Sweden has landed in an ethic dispute after a police raid unearthed its practice of sheltering ... Read More
Assyrian Football Teams in Sweden Tell of a Changing Community
Assyriska FF in Södertälje, Sweden was founded in 1974 by Assyrian refugees from the Middle East. ( Assyriska) AINA - 8/7/17 Stockholm (AINA) -- The ... Read More
Swedish PM tells priests to carry out same-sex marriages ‘or do something else’
© Enrique Castro-Mendivil / Reuters RT.com - 26/6/17 Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven has suggested that all Church of Sweden priests be compelled to perform ... Read More
Assyrian Genocide Documentary to Be Aired in Cyprus
In this 1919 photo released by the Armenian National Archives shows victims of the "Great Slaughter" in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. The sign ... Read More
‘Thursdays in Black’ campaign gets boost as Ahmedabad Diocese clergymen under Metropolitan Mar Yulios takes part in WCC campaign
Indian Orthodox Malankara Church - 25/2/17 - WCC - Indian Orthodox Malankara Church AHMEDABAD, India: The Geneva-based World Council of Churches (WCC) has prominently featured ... Read More
Pan-Oriental Orthodox Fellowship of St. Jacob Baradaeus & the Return to Orthodoxy
Visit – http://returntoorthodoxy.com/ FB PAGE – https://www.facebook.com/returntoorthodoxy To join the Fellowship of St. Jacob Baradaeus – or to submit material to the site – please visit: http://returntoorthodoxy.com/contact/ ... Read More
Swedish non-religious majority gets faith symbol-free cemetery
© Leonhard Foeger / Reuters Rt.com - 21/10/16 The Borlänge locality in central Sweden has opened the country’s first cemetery with no religious symbols allowed. ... Read More
Lutheran Swedes to Cough Up Millions of Kronor for Papal Visit
© Flickr/ Rutger Blom Sputniknews - 15/10/16 Despite being a Lutheran nation in the periphery of the Catholic world, Sweden is proud to welcome Pope ... Read More
Assyrian Confederation of Europe Elects President
Ms Attiya Gamri, a former member of a Dutch provincial parliament, has been elected president of the Assyrian Confederation of Europe for a three term. ... Read More
Assyrians in Europe to Gather for Inaugural Convention
AINA- September 2016 Stockholm (AINA) -- Assyrians in Europe will gather for a pan-European convention for the first time on October 8 and 9. The ... Read More
Swedes Demand Assyrian Autonomy to Make Up for Daesh Genocide
© AFP 2016/ MOHAMMED SAWAF Sputniknews - August 2016 After having established a quasi-state in the Middle East, Daesh has been guilty of many evils, including persecution of ... Read More
Swedish Evangelical Church to Bomb Daesh With Bibles
© Photo: Pixabay Sputniknews - August 2016 A Swedish evangelical free church admittedly has plans to use drones to "bomb" Daesh-controlled areas in Iraq with ... Read More
Familienfest in Mor Jacob of Sarough Monastery in Warburg
Syriac Orthodox Church - July 2016 Holy Qurobo in Familienfest in Warburg His Holiness Patriarch Mor Ignatius Aphrem II attended the different functions of the ... Read More
Ye of Little Faith: Swedish Church Officials Enjoy Luxurious Trips Abroad
© Flickr/ Marcus Södervall www.sputniknews.com - 1/6/16 In recent years, the Church of Sweden has been rapidly losing its flock and the astonishing new revelations about ... Read More
Turkey Attempted to Stop Broadcast of Assyrian Genocide Documentary
By Bar Daisan - April 2016 (AINA) -- The Turkish Embassy in Sweden officially asked the Swedish television channel TV4 last week to not air ... Read More
Assyrian Confederation of Europe Established in Brussels
Members of the Assyrian Confederation of Europe meeting in Brussels. ( AINA) April 2016 Brussels (AINA) -- On April 22nd, the Assyrian Confederation of Europe ... Read More
Holier Than Thou: Danes Leaving the Church in Hordes
© AFP 2016/ JOHN MACDOUGALL wwwsputniknews.com - April 2016 A recent campaign by the Danish Atheist Society to encourage members of the Church of Denmark to ... Read More
Abandon Ship: Church of Sweden Rapidly Losing Its Congregation
www.sputniknews.com - March 2016 Easter is the Church of Sweden's most important holiday, but the members are diminishing in numbers, forcing the Church authorities to close ... Read More
Help to Build an Orthodox Stave Church in Sweden
Father Deacon Mikael Fälthammar www.gofundme.com - March 2016 - Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All East Please donate by visiting below link https://www.gofundme.com/5n4cq4c24g Sweden: This ... Read More
Football, Politics and Assyrian National Identity
A large Assyrian flag is displayed by Assyrian fans at a game played by Assyriska, an Assyrian football club in Sweden. By Paul Antonopoulos - ... Read More