Thomas Adamson

Thomas Adamson is an author at Religion News Service.

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France’s president visits Notre Dame a year before the fire-damaged cathedral’s planned reopening

By Thomas Adamson and Sylvie Corbet — December 8, 2023
PARIS (AP) — The schedule calls for the completion of the penultimate restoration phase by the end of the year, with the cathedral’s much-anticipated reopening set for Dec. 8, 2024.

More than 180,000 people across France march against soaring antisemitism amid the Israel-Hamas war

By Barbara Surk and Sylvie Corbet — November 13, 2023
PARIS (AP) — France has the largest Jewish population in Europe, but given its own World War II collaboration with the Nazis, antisemitic acts today open old scars.

Pope decries indifference toward migrants, as he prays for the dead in the French port of Marseille

By Sylvie Corbet and Nicole Winfield — September 22, 2023
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis' two-day visit to Marseille is aimed at sending a message well beyond the Catholic faithful to Europe, North Africa and beyond.

French church abuse victims get reparations, and recognition

By Sylvie Corbet — March 10, 2023
PARIS (AP) — France’s Catholic bishops’ conference agreed to provide reparations after a 2021 report estimated some 330,000 children were sexually abused over 70 years by priests or other church-related figures in France.

French actor breaks silence on child sex abuse within church

By Sylvie Corbet — October 11, 2021
Laurent Martinez, who was was sexually abused by a priest at the age of eight, has chosen to turn his story into a play.

French report: 330,000 children victims of church sex abuse

By Sylvie Corbet — October 5, 2021
PARIS (AP) — Victims of abuse within France’s Catholic Church welcomed a historic turning point Tuesday after a new report estimated that 330,000 children in France were sexually abused over the past 70 years, providing the country’s first accounting of the worldwide phenomenon. The figure includes abuses committed by some 3,000 priests and an unknown […]
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