Thousands march in France in pre-election protest against far right
Paris, France Reuters Thousands marched in Paris and cities across France on Saturday to protest against the far-right National Rally (RN) ahead of upcoming elections to the French parliament. Following the RN’s surge in last Sunday’s European elections, police said 350,000 people were expected to march and 21,000 officers had been mobilised after labour unions, […]
France deploys 45,000 police after riots over teen’s death
Paris, France Reuters France’s interior minister said on Friday the coming hours would be decisive as he sent 45,000 police onto the streets following three nights of riots since an officer shot dead a teenager at a traffic stop in a working class suburb of Paris. The violence, in which buildings and vehicles have been […]
Updated: French riots spread in third night of unrest over police shooting
Updated: 12:10pm (AEST) Nanterre, France Reuters France saw unrest spread to major cities in a third night of riots on Thursday as President Emmanuel Macron fought to contain a mounting crisis triggered by the deadly police shooting of a teenager of Algerian and Moroccan descent during a traffic stop. Forty thousand police officers were deployed […]
French police clash with black-clad anarchists during May Day rallies
Paris, France Reuters French police clashed with hundreds of black-clad anarchists in Paris and other cities during union-led protests against President Emmanuel Macron’s increase in the retirement age, as workers staged Labour Day rallies across Europe. Demonstrators pelted Paris police with Molotov cocktails and fireworks, torched building materials and smashed up bus stops. Protesters marching […]
Saints of Past Ages: St Irenaeus
Last month, Pope Francis declared name St Irenaeus a “doctor” of the Catholic Church. But just who was this second century saint? DAVID ADAMS takes a look…
In France, suspect in priest’s shooting freed, search widens
Lyon, France AP French police on Sunday released an initial suspect in the shooting of a Greek Orthodox priest and widened their search for the gunman who critically wounded the priest as he closed the door to his official residence at a church in the city of Lyon. The Lyon prosecutor’s office said a man […]
Orthodox priest shot at church in France, motive unknown
Lyon/Paris, France AP 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 said. The priest, a Greek citizen, is in a local hospital with life-threatening injuries after being shot twice in […]
French cardinal convicted of covering up sex abuse allegations
Reuters A high-ranking French Catholic cleric, Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, was convicted on Thursday of failing to report allegations of sexual abuse in his diocese and said he would submit his resignation to Pope Francis. Barbarin, archbishop of Lyon and the highest-profile cleric to be caught up in the child sex abuse scandal inside the French Catholic Church, was […]