French lawyer Nancy Lefevre serves as in-house legal counsel to the Conseil national des Evangéliques de France (CNEF), the main French Evangelical network (officialized in 2010).
She is also considered as a prominent defender of religious freedom in that country.
Published last year in the International Journal for Religious Freedom, this insightful article discusses the historical roots and conceptions of laicity underlying the 2021 reform.
It also focuses on the impact on religious organisations resulting from the state’s greater control over religious groups’ activities