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30 Jul 08
Three protestant Lutheran churches in Stockholm have been vandalized because
of the Church's participation in the gay and lesbian EuroPride festival the
city is currently hosting, a church pastor said Wednesday.
"Yesterday morning we discovered that our church had been covered in flyers
with texts saying that homosexuality was wrong ... Two other churches in
Stockholm also had the same thing," the pastor in the Högalid parish,
Gunilla Linden, told AFP.
"There were direct references to Europride, but also against female pastors
and loud music and dancing," she said.
The flyers, posted by a group calling itself "orthodox Christians", were
taped to the exterior walls of the churches and strewn on the ground with
rocks to hold them in place.
Högalid church is located near the Europride festival area, and the Swedish
Lutheran Church, to which about 75 percent of Swedes belong, also has an
information tent on the festival's main park grounds.
"We have a spiritual responsibility for everyone in our parish, so as such
we are involved in Europride," Linden said.
"Our message during the festival is to see the good in people and give
people a good role model," Linden said, adding that the incident had been
reported to police.
30 Jul 08
Three protestant Lutheran churches in Stockholm have been vandalized because
of the Church's participation in the gay and lesbian EuroPride festival the
city is currently hosting, a church pastor said Wednesday.
"Yesterday morning we discovered that our church had been covered in flyers
with texts saying that homosexuality was wrong ... Two other churches in
Stockholm also had the same thing," the pastor in the Högalid parish,
Gunilla Linden, told AFP.
"There were direct references to Europride, but also against female pastors
and loud music and dancing," she said.
The flyers, posted by a group calling itself "orthodox Christians", were
taped to the exterior walls of the churches and strewn on the ground with
rocks to hold them in place.
Högalid church is located near the Europride festival area, and the Swedish
Lutheran Church, to which about 75 percent of Swedes belong, also has an
information tent on the festival's main park grounds.
"We have a spiritual responsibility for everyone in our parish, so as such
we are involved in Europride," Linden said.
"Our message during the festival is to see the good in people and give
people a good role model," Linden said, adding that the incident had been
reported to police.
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