Swedish church is the largest Christian denomination. In this organization fit a variety of meetings and activities, both in Sweden and abroad.
Swedish church is part of the universal Christian church. They have a mission from God to be with and work for a decent life and a better world for all.
They believe that God makes broken completely, establish offended, creating new and reconciled world. As Christians and as a church they have the mission to be God's instrument. Therefore, they work for:
We encounter God in every human being. Therefore, every person sacred and inviolable human dignity. Every human being has the right to a life of dignity. When a person is violated or diminished, when violated God.
Jesus takes a stand for people who are silenced or living in vulnerable situations. Jesus cherish human life, spirit, soul and body. This applies particularly to children who have a special place in the Christian faith.
They argue every person's fundamental rights as expressed in the UN Declaration of Human Rights. CoS oppose all forms of oppression or inequality.
They defend each person's own abilities, responsibility and right to decide over their own lives.
People are rights holders, not needy items for someone else's goodness. Therefore they want to show the structures of power and act against oppression. They want to do even when it challenges the church's own role.
CoS believe in and pray to the Triune God who creates, delivers and gives life. They believe in life and love God as primordial existence, a God that is within us and in everything outside.
They believe that the Atonement of Jesus Christ provides the opportunity for reconciliation between people, between man and God and between man and the rest of creation.
They ask that the worldwide church to be a community of hope where despair and resignation do not have the last word.
CoS is confident that their efforts make a difference and that the Church is a community of hope, and that the world has a future.
To believe in the God of life is to move from despondency to courage. Centre of the Christian faith is Jesus' death and his resurrection on Easter morning, providing a defiant hope of life - it's never too late!
God's infinite forgiveness and act of love is what drives them and gives hope for the future even in the difficult.
Our planet, our home in the cosmos is part of God's creation, which is constantly renewed. Everything that exists has a value in itself and all life live in a mutual dependence.
Man has a unique position when it comes to taking responsibility and ensure that life is not violated.
We see that creation and thus humanity's long-term survival, is threatened by man's current impact on our planet.
CoS is committed to countering the continued over-exploitation and unfair distribution of the earth's resources.
We need to influence the structures and ways of counteracting every person's right to a dignified life, now and in the future. The struggle for peace, justice and sustainable climate related.
THEIR WORK
Refugee and Migration
The foundation of the work is the love of our neighbor.
Some wonder why the Swedish Church is committed to the refugee issue. As fellow human beings and Christians we have the responsibility to protect each other's lives, regardless of background, tradition or religion. God calls us to see, not to look away or close your eyes. Therefore, it is natural for us to work in various ways for people to flee'll be better.
Sustainable Development
We are living today are the first generation that can eradicate poverty but also the last to act in time on climate change. It is a finding that breathes hope but also frustration that sometimes change is so slow.
A concentrated effort and a good dose of creativity is needed if we are to meet the great societal challenges that we are in the midst of both globally and at home. Ongoing climate change, water shortages and major gaps in the world between those who have and have not, shows that we must find new ways to produce, consume, live and share.
Sustainability issues are ever present in the Swedish church activities. With human dignity in focus, they work for the people living in deprivation both in Sweden and abroad, regardless of whether the cause is poverty or disease, environmental degradation or ongoing conflict.
They work for everyone's right to spiritual development and a greater understanding and tolerance between religions. their values permeate also the internal work that is done to take responsibility for their own business impacts, whether it is about how they invest their money or how they affect the climate by purchasing, travel and energy.
Church act in crises and disasters
Swedish Church's emergency management relies on the principles of responsibility, proximity and similarity. This means that a crisis, so far as possible, be managed on the basis of regular responsibilities, where it occurred and the regular work.
The parish, the diocese and the national level have their respective spheres of responsibility for their contingency planning and exercises.
The work is processed and separated into phases before, during and after an event.
Planning and practice before something serious happens is crucial for the management of the crisis to work. To gather and learn from experience is also an important part of the work. For the Swedish church is good in preparedness priority.
Good social readiness is largely based on cooperation and coordination between different actors. Since 2009, the responsibility for crisis coordination at national level of the Archbishop and the Secretary-General's Secretariat. Crisis Coordination is a resource for dioceses and parishes, and cooperates with other organizations, agencies and organizations. Work is conducted through continuing education, training, planning, knowledge management and development.
At the national level there is an established partnership between the Swedish Church and the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB) , but also with the National Board of Health, religious communities and other stakeholders.Local and regional collaboration are often of such police, emergency services, municipalities and county administrative boards.
Partnerships and networks on international issues
They work in Swedish society, within the EU and internationally to get a higher quality of their international activities.
