French church groups fight anti-migrant attitudes

Monday, June 18th, 2018

The French church has launched a programme to combat anti-migrant and anti-Muslim attitudes.

Reports of tensions among Catholics have prompted the programme.

“It is to resist the rise of tensions and hostilities within the Christian community that our movements have decided to work” with the French bishops’ conference.

The groups say they hope to find ways to “help Christians rise above these fears and face the migrant question calm and dispassionately,”. Read more

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