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The rise of French Evangelicals: an article from the Guardian

noreply@hautetfort.com (A lire) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:37:00 +0100

Lizzy Davies, a journalist from the Guardian, called me a few days ago to ask me some questions about French Evangelicals. Unfortunatly, I was not in my home and I did not have the opportunity to answer in due time.

This did not prevent Lizzy Davies from kindly quoting me, recycling an old bit of interview given to the French daily Le monde.

French Baptists celebrate

noreply@hautetfort.com (A lire) — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 20:44:00 +0200

French Baptist history goes back to 1820, giving the French the oldest unbroken history of any Baptist community on the European continent. There were Baptist churches in France before Baptist churches started in Texas!

A French Baptist Historical Society (the SHDBF, or Société d'Histoire et de Documentation Baptistes de France) was founded in 2000 at a meeting in the historic chapel in the rue de Lille in the centre of Paris, with as "founder members" the three groups of French Baptists (Federation, Association, and then independent Eglise du Tabernacle, which has since joined the Association).

Diversity in the French media: still some work to be done

noreply@hautetfort.com (A lire) — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:28:00 +0100

In a book published in 2004, I highlighted the fact that many French people just happen to see Black faces on the TV because of…. American movies.

Unfortunatly, this is still largely true today.

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What is French "Laïcité" (laicity)?

noreply@hautetfort.com (A lire) — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 23:35:00 +0100

Our French President has recently drawn criticism after one of his speeches during his visit to the Vatican.

In front of the highest Roman Catholic Clergy, he emphasized the importance of the French "christian roots" (mainly Catholic), while he also pleaded for a "positive" version of "laïcité" (laicity, sometimes translated by secularism).

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