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Notre Dame Cathedral’s restoration has been a 5-year journey of dedication and recovery
By Thomas Adamson — March 19, 2024
PARIS (AP) — The iconic medieval monument immortalized in history, film and literature has been gradually rebuilt over the past five years, through challenges that have included delays during the pandemic and the loss of the project's leader.
Notre Dame spire to be crowned with new rooster, symbolizing cathedral’s resurgence
By Thomas Adamson — December 18, 2023
PARIS (AP) — The rooster, a French emblem of vigilance and Christ’s resurrection, will house sacred relics inside it.
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.
In Marseille, Pope Francis will make the case for migrants to the world
By Claire Giangravé — September 20, 2023
(RNS) — As a new wave of immigrants enters Europe and nations close borders, the pope will make the case for welcoming.
France’s laicité in the name of secularism is really only supremacist legacy of colonialism
By Omar Suleiman — September 6, 2023
(RNS) — What is it that makes a schoolgirl’s choice to wear the abaya a form of religious proselytism?
France’s education minister bans long robes in classrooms. They’re worn mainly by Muslims
By Elaine Ganley — August 29, 2023
PARIS (AP) — Critics say that abayas, worn by women, and khamis, the male garb, are no more than a fashion statement.
Oak trusses raised to roof of fire-ravaged Notre Dame Cathedral as crowds watch along the Seine
By Associated Press — July 12, 2023
PARIS (AP) — A crane hoisted massive oak trusses from a barge and onto Notre Dame Cathedral on Tuesday in a spectacular operation to rebuild the fire-ravaged monument and bring it back to life by December 2024. With trusses weighing 7 to 7.5 tons, the delicate operation drew crowds along a bridge over the Seine […]
France’s highest administrative court says the soccer federation can ban headscarves in matches
By Samuel Petrequin — June 29, 2023
(AP) — The ruling is likely to refuel the lingering debate on secularism — still volatile more than a century after the 1905 law on separation of church and state that established it as a principle of the French Republic.
French Muslims vote for ‘whoever spits in their face least’
By Tom Heneghan — April 27, 2022
PARIS (RNS) — France’s Muslim minority, estimated at about 8% of the 68 million population, became one of the main issues in the presidential election.
Tensions over race, religion in France’s presidential race
By Arno Pedram — April 21, 2022
PARIS (AP) — Experts have seen this election as unusually dominated by discriminatory discourse and proposals targeting immigration and Islam.
Pope Francis and Macron meet at the Vatican amid clergy abuse scandals in France
By Claire Giangravé — November 26, 2021
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — As French Catholics come to terms with a staggering clergy abuse report, President Emmanuel Macron met with Pope Francis at the Vatican.
France’s Macron visits Iraq’s Mosul destroyed by IS war
By Qassim Abdul-zahra and Hadi Mizban — August 30, 2021
MOSUL, Iraq (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron visited Iraq’s northern city of Mosul, which suffered widespread destruction during the war to defeat the Islamic State group in 2017.
France fights hold of Islamist radicals with dragnets, laws
By Elaine Ganley — February 15, 2021
(RNS) — The proposed legislation is intended to re-anchor secularism in a France where Muslims are increasingly visible and Islam is gaining a stronger voice.
Lawmakers debate bill to rout out radical Islam in France
By Elaine Ganley — February 1, 2021
PARIS (AP) — Critics say the bill covers ground already addressed in current laws, while far-right leader Marine Le Pen says the bill doesn't go far enough.
French police operations underway after beheading of teacher
By Associated Press — October 19, 2020
PARIS (AP) — Tens of thousands of demonstrators gathered on Sunday across France in support of freedom of speech and in memory of the slain 47-year-old teacher.
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