The municipal council of the small town of Estevelles voted in favour of “supporting” the new identity of its political leader.
In the Paris area, the number of those who identify as believers is significantly higher than elsewhere.
The French Protestant Federation is worried about media portrayals linking evangelicals in the country to supporters of Trump or Bolsonaro.
Several Christian voices in the United Kingdom criticise the Illegal Migration draft law presented by the government. They ask to “talk frankly and listen carefully” instead of “fanning anti-immigration flames”.
Over 200 bookshops and other organisations take part in a project to raise interest in the Bible.
The church that Kévin pastors in Montbéliard opened its doors to a grandmother, a mother and two teenagers. A few kilometres away, Delphine welcomed 4 other women.
French evangelicals welcome the motion. “It constitutes an urgent first step in the face of an inescapable challenge for our society”.
Thieves smashed a window of the temple in Veneux-les-Sablons and tried to open the collection box. The Baptist congregation suffered acts of vandalism in the past.
A teenage student stabbed the woman with a knife. Authorities have not yet reported about the motivation for the attack.
To our friends and family members who are away: I pray that God is your home. He hasn’t given up on Lebanon, so don’t give up on Lebanon either.
The new text of the draft law changes the term “right” for “freedom to terminate the pregnancy”. To be finally adopted, the law must be voted in a referendum.
The upper house rejects the text for a third time: "It will not strengthen the effectiveness of the right to abortion".
“The right to kill cannot become a supra-legislative rule, a constitutional right”, said organisers of the march for life.
“Humanity lies in refusing to give in to demographic, lobbyist or economic pressures that call for facilitating early death", says the National Council of Evangelicals in France.
62% believe “science can give answers to all the big problems of the 21st century” but 51% do not see a conflict with religion.
In 2 reports submitted to the Committee on the Rights of the Child, the Protestant Evangelical Committee for Human Dignity asks to abolish surrogacy and ban minors’ access to pornography.
The specific measures to prevent terrorist attacks in places of worship on Hanukkah and Christmas were not announced.
A pastor in Orleans got a 12-month suspended prison sentence. He reported the crime too late, the court says. There is no secrecy of confession for evangelical pastors.
The figure has increased 15-fold since 1950, says the newest report of the CNEF. At the end of 2022, there were at least 2,700 active evangelical worship places in the country.
In the Qatar World Cup, he became France's best scorer of all time. “I pray on the pitch before every game and after every goal as well”.
Throughout a weekend in Paris, representatives of all kinds of evangelical and Protestant churches came together to reflect on how to be “a church on mission”.
“Abortion has become a dogma for the parliamentary majority”, laments Franck Meyer of the Evangelical Protestant Committee for Human Dignity. The Senate could slow down the process.
In this first edition after the Covid-19 pandemic, efforts were made to encourage young women.
“This battle is not over. It is just beginning”, pro-abortion parliamentarians say. Two new resolutions will be brought to vote in November.
Stop abus aims to “make our churches more welcoming and safer”, says the CNEF. Evangelicals had already released a guide of good practices to fight sexual abuse.
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