Police officers and rescue workers block the access to the scene after a Greek Orthodox priest was shot Saturday Oct.31, 2020 while he was closing his church in the city of Lyon, central France. The ...

Demolition work is underway on a 135-year-old church dedicated to St. Joseph in northern France -- the first of several church demolitions that could take place in the country in the coming months.

The founder of the Emmaues association, the French Catholic priest Abbe Pierre appears on the TV programm "La Marche du Siecle" in Paris in 1988. The Catholic Church in France has called on ...

Archbishop Moulins-Beaufort believes that, with its long experience of secularism, the French Church has something to teach Catholics elsewhere about “the price of freedom in relation to the state.” ...

PARIS - A major French report released Tuesday found that an estimated 330,000 children were victims of sex abuse within France's Catholic Church over the past 70 years, in France's first major ...

At the end of their plenary assembly in November, the bishops knelt in an act of penance in Lourdes as an image of a weeping child was unveiled and an abuse victim shared their testimony. Jean-Marc ...

A Greek Orthodox priest was shot Saturday at a church in Lyon, France, by an unknown assailant who then fled the scene, according to police, with this latest attack sparking concerns it is related to ...

PARIS — A major French report released Tuesday found that an estimated 330,000 children were victims of sex abuse within the Roman Catholic Church in France over the last 70 years, in the country’s ...

LYON, France — A Greek Orthodox priest was shot Saturday while he was closing his church in the French city of Lyon, and authorities locked down part of the city to hunt for the assailant, authorities ...

The Church in France is under pressure, according to the president of the French Catholic bishops' conference. But for Archbishop Éric de Moulins-Beaufort, that is no cause for despair. "The Church in ...