The Ekklesia website reports today that a national interfaith council has been created in Sweden to highlight the role of faith groups in generating understanding, and to respond to those who are hostile to religion.
"We want to strengthen the freedom to believe in and practice religion -- both individually and in fellowship -- but we also want to be a voice for public discussion of ethics and spirituality," said Archbishop Anders Wejryd of the Lutheran Church of Sweden in a recent statement.
The church said the council includes Bahai, Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim, and Sikh representatives, and that it was formed on May 4, 2010 at a meeting in the archbishop's residence in Uppsala, Sweden.
The interfaith council is made up of 15 people and will meet twice a year. "We have created a national avenue for religious leaders in Sweden to come together, not a new organization," said Wejryd.
About 87 percent of Sweden's nine million people belong to the (Lutheran) Church of Sweden.
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