Finnish will be an optional language in preschools and old people's homes in eight more Swedish cities, as the government extends the rights of minority language speakers across the country. Half a ...

KIRUNA, Sweden (AP) — The members of Kiruna Church primarily worship in Swedish, their country’s main language. But this Lutheran church some 200 kilometers (120 miles) above the Arctic Circle seeks ...

The Local spoke to families across Sweden, raising their children in a range of languages, to find out what the techniques and challenges are. Photo: Ann-Sofi Rosenkvist/imagebank.sweden.se In Sweden, ...

The Swedish National Agency for Education, or Skolverket, is to expand the teaching of Sweden’s five national minority languages (Yiddish, Finnish, Meänkieli, Sami and Romani Chib) in Sweden’s schools ...

Syriac Orthodox Archbishop of Sweden and Scandinavia Mor Youhanon Lahdo attended alongside parish priest Father Malki Isho, ...