Tag: world religions
Notre-Dame de Paris reopens to worship and the public: a new lease of life
Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral reopens to worship and visitors this Sunday, December 8, 2024, five years after the terrible fire that ravaged it on April 15, 2019 and the strong…
Religion in prison and secularism: the role of prison chaplains
Religion plays an important role in prison. It can represent a space of appeasement, confidence, and socialization for prisoners, with visits related to worship. In France, prison chaplains are a…
Supporting the end of life: a bill under debate in France
French MPs are examining a bill on active assistance in dying. A project which goes too far for some, who fear the legalization of assisted dying, and not far enough…
Religion in prison and secularism: the role of prison chaplains
Religion plays an important role in prison. It can represent for prisoners a space of calm, confidence, socialization, with visits linked to worship. For the State and the prison administration,…
The migration issue at the center of the Pope’s visit to Marseille
Pope Francis went to Marseille on September 22 and 23, 2023, at the initiative of Cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline, Archbishop of Marseille, to close the Mediterranean Meetings to which 70 bishops…
African nuns and priests in France: “new missionaries”?
Priests “from elsewhere” as the Catholic Church describes them are numerous in France: they are estimated to be around 3,000, or 20% of all priests on French territory. Figures that…
Marseille, interreligious dialogue anchored in the neighborhoods
Religions of the World takes you to Marseille, a city of more than 800,000 inhabitants open to the Mediterranean and to the world, where all nationalities and faiths meet, a…
Migrants in the Pas-de-Calais: no respite for Christmas
On the northern coast of France, between Calais and Grande-Synthe, the winter cold is biting at this Christmas time. Hundreds of people in exile are surviving in inhumane conditions as…
The Great Mosque of Paris is 100 years old
The Great Mosque of Paris was built in the heart of the French capital as a tribute to the Muslim fighters of the First World War. The first stone was…
Meetings of Averroes: peace and wars between religions?
With the conflict in Ukraine, Europe seems to be rediscovering war. Wars that have multiplied on the other side of the Mediterranean. Between wars and peace, how is the relationship…