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A man in his 50s has died after being seriously assaulted outside a restaurant in Sweden after trying to defend his daughter from a group of young men who had been groping her. Authorities have not yet released information about the suspects’ nationality, ethnicity, or background, raising the suspicion among social media users that the perpetrators may be migrants. Police were called to the centre of the Swedish city of Karlstad at about 1:25 a.m. on Sunday, August 30th, after a violent disturbance broke out outside a fast food restaurant. Officers found a middle-aged man seriously injured at the scene....

A shortage of priests in Swedish municipality Karlstad means the local diocese has now turned to importing pastors from abroad. A recruitment project designed to entice priests from foreign countries to the region is now under way. “In the short term, we’ve worked on trying to recruit priests from other countries. Specifically, we’ve focused on Germany,” Charlotte Klingestad, staff strategist at Karlstad diocese, explained to public broadcaster SVT. Around 20 positions are vacant in the diocese, with the problem biggest in the smaller municipalities. […] Though Sweden is generally a secular country, the Swedish Church says it has around six...