19 November 2009

Secular and Catholic France grows evangelicals

"From a postwar population of around 50,000, French evangelicals are now estimated to number between 450,000 and 500,000. According to the Evangelical Federation of France (FEF), the number of churches has risen from 800 in 1970 to over 2,200 today." That's quite a big change. It looks like a lot of the growth is in Pentecostal style churches but not all. The Guardian article has a kind of comment overview:
For secular and Catholic France, a shock to the system: the rise of the evangelicals | World news | The Guardian. However, if you're interested in a bit more detail on the way the figures look, and you read French, then the article in Le Figaro is better: Le protestantisme en pleine mutation (if your French is rudimentary, the Google translation kind of works but is very stilted). The occasion is the 500 anniversary of the birth of John Calvin (in France, recall).

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