PROBLEMS AND TENSIONS
The Veil
Among the problems faced by Muslim integration in France, the most recent is the dispute over the veil that practising Muslim girls wish to wear in class. This dispute on the use of the Islamic vei ...
19 June 2004
DIALOGUE WITH OTHER RELIGIONS
The Secretariat for Relations with Islam
During the very first years of Muslim immigration, the Catholic Church was strongly engaged in helping the Muslims to integrate within the French reality. It was a matter of h ...
19 June 2004
NUMERICAL COMPARISON WITH OTHER EUROPEAN COUNTRIESCountry ----- Muslim population ----- Percentage
Germany ----------- 3.2 million ---------- 3.8 (mainly Turks or Kurds)
United Kingdom ------ 2 million ---------- 3.4 (mostly of Pakistan origin)
Netherlands ...
19 June 2004
THE 1905 LAW ON THE SECULARITY OF THE STATE
The 1905 Law will celebrate its hundredth anniversary next year. It is the law regulating the secularity of the State. At the beginning, the Catholic Church felt it was anti-Clerical; the Pope rejected it and it was acce ...
19 June 2004
THE FRENCH COUNCIL OF MUSLIM FAITH (CFCM)
Since Islam has become the second largest religion in France, the State required an interlocutor representing the different Islamic communities present on its territory. This brought to the 1989 initiative of Minister Pi ...
AMERICA/GUYANA - Rev. Emmanuel Lafont appointed Bishop of Cayenne
Vatican City (Fides) - The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has, June 18 2004 appointed
Bishop of Cayenne (French Guyana) Reverend Father Emmanuel Lafont, of the clergy of Tours (France).
The Bishop elect was born in Pa ...