While same-sex couples have been allowed to get married in the Church of Sweden since 2009, there is no requirement for priests to agree to perform such a ceremony. Refusal to wed is a right many church politicians and activists seek to remove. Openly homosexual priest Lars Gårdfeldt of the Carl Johan Parish in Gothenburg has refused to wed heterosexual couples. In doing so, Lars Gårdfeldt referred... 

Recent remarks by Péter Niedermüller, a Budapest opposition district mayor, are “racist, inflammatory and indefensible”, ruling Fidesz MEP Tamás Deutsch said on Wednesday: Niedermüller said on TV recently: “If we look at what’s left after you peel away the objects of the haters such as non-Hungarians, the others, migrants, the Roma … a scary formation is left in the middle: white, Christian,...