The best French sociologist of Protestantism, Jean-Paul Willaime, describes French culture as one in which religion is relegated to the private sphere. One can easily foresee the consequences for ...

We all know the various wars between the Catholics and the Protestants at the dawn of the Reformation were bloody, brutal things. Knowing is one thing, and seeing is another. Just how savage that ...

PARIS (AP) — More than 180,000 people across France, including 100,000 in Paris, marched peacefully on Sunday to protest against rising antisemitism in the wake of Israel’s ongoing war against ...

France is expanding the definition of what kinds of clothes are unacceptable under the rules of laïcité, its strict separation of religion and state.

(The Conversation) — Pierre de Coubertin hoped to channel the best of the ancient ceremonies into a new tradition that could foster both national pride and international harmony.