Christians should take a leaf out of the Torah when it comes to sex, according to a Swedish professor speaking at an annual meeting of the country’s faith groups. Professor Leif Carlsson told attendees at the Hono Conference on the west coast of Sweden that Christianity holds negative views on sex compared to those found in Judaism. Read the full story

With the rapid approach of the holy month of Ramadan, a prayer room has opened for Muslims at the University of Iceland. A student in the Finnish language department at the university made a formal request at the Student Council for a prayer room which was later approved by the university. A Holy Quran and prayer rugs were set up in the university’s Chapel making it into a multi faith prayer room, making Icelandic history in the process. Read the full story

A church in the West Fjords of Iceland (Northwestern part of the country) celebrates 150 years of existance today. The church is called in Icelandic Ögurkirkja, which could directly translate into English as “Rocky Inlet Church”. Read the full story

Hindu activist Rajan Zed’s recent request to the Icelandic parliament to include a Hindu prayer in the opening of parliament ceremony on 1st October has been rejected.

The request was handled by the Deputy Secretary General of Althingi (Iceland’s parliament), Thorsteinn Magnusson, MeriNews reports. “There is a long tradition for conducting a Lutheran mass at the opening of the Parliament and there are no plans to change this tradition,” Magnusson said.

On 1st October annually since 1845, the new session of Althingi opens with a mass in the Domskirkjan Cathedral organised by the Evangelical Lutheran Church (the state church in Iceland).

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