The law currently being debated in the French parliament – officially named ‘the Law to uphold Republican Principles’ - is really the culmination of many years of terrorist acts carried out by radical Islamists, and the government’s response to curb these separatist movements. But will it actually have a greater negative effect on evangelical churches?
As Pastor John-Raymond Stauffacher, President of the Union of Evangelical Reformed Churches, and graduate of Faculté Jean Calvin seminary says, “Everyone agrees to kill radical Islam in the bud, but this law, as it is formulated, is disconnected from its avowed aim.”
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Frustrated by years of terrorism inflicted by radical Islamists, France’s parliament is debating a law to end Muslim separatism. French evangelicals fear their churches will become collateral damage….
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