Original sentence: Ekman passed on the local pastorship in Uppsala to Robert Ekh that year and instead works on expanding the church's international work.Livets Ord, literally The Word of Life, is a Swedish church, founded  in Uppsala by Ulf Ekman on May 24, 1983, who also served as its leader until 2000.The teaching methods and parts of the curriculum of schools run by Livets Ord have been under review by the Swedish National Agency for Education on several occasions, but the schools have only been criticized on minor details
Edited sentence: After Ekman's return from Jerusalem 2005, Livets Ord has moderated it's tone considerably, and have turned to a course of ecumenics and discussions with other churches, although attacks as the above one have never been retracted.Ekman then temporarily passed on the local pastorship in Uppsala to Robert Ekh that year, and moved to live in Jerusalem.In 2005 he returned and once again attained full leadership, while also working on expanding the church's international work.Livets Ord has attained a genuine and stable disreputation among for example Swedish Social Democrats for Ulf Ekman's verbal political attacks "Socialismen är från Djävulen", (Socialism comes from the Devil).Livets Ord has, among others from within the Word of Faith, been accused of being authoritarian and giving dictatorial power to it's leaders.Livets Ord, literally The Word of Life, is a Swedish church, founded  in Uppsala by Ulf Ekman on May 24, 1983, who also served as its leader until 2002