Marine Le Pen, who wants to ban the Islamic headscarf, could still pull off a shock election win but that doesn't mean France's Muslim voters are all panicking over the far-right, National Front candidate taking power.
A teacher in central France has been suspended after he read passages of the bible to his primary school pupils. Educagtion authorities in the staunchly secular country have been accused of overreacting.
A town in eastern France has been ordered to remove a statue of the Virgin Mary to comply with a national ban on religious symbols in public, the local mayor has said.
There is a growing presence of religion in work places around France, and with it comes a growing amount of religion-based conflicts, a new study has found.
Muslims attended Catholic mass in churches around France on Sunday in solidarity and sorrow following the brutal jihadist murder of a priest, the latest in a string of attacks.
A French priest has been dismissed from his role after comparing those killed in the shootings at the Bataclan concert hall with the Isis extremists who shot them, saying they were "Siamese twins".
A French village priest who smashed a statue of Jesus in his church has blamed the "stress and fatigue" of his job for the act, which shocked his congregation.
France may officially be a secular country but the question of religion in the workplace is becoming more and more significant and it is increasingly the source of conflicts in offices, a new survey has found.
Some 30,000 young Christians from across Europe - Catholics, Protestants and Orthodox - descended on Strasbourg on Saturday for a four-day gathering to share prayers and reflect on social issues.
France's highest court on Wednesday upheld several convictions for "organized fraud" against the Church of Scientology. A representative from the Church told The Local the ruling was tantamount to "religious persecution" by France.
A group of former members of the Seventh Day Adventist Church went on trial on Monday in France, charged with torturing a 19-year-old woman during a shockingly violent crucifixion-style exorcism which lasted seven days.
A 14-year-old boy has been seriously injured in clashes between police and protesters in the western suburbs of
Paris after officers stopped a woman for wearing a veil.
A group of Catholic protestors in France were fined thousands of euros on Friday for interrupting and throwing smoke bombs at a 'blasphemous' piece of theatre, which featured the face of Christ being covered in fake excrement.
The historic Catholic pilgrimage site of Lourdes in south west France was evacuated on Tuesday after flash floods hit the area. Management at the shrine have told The Local they are growing increasingly concerned as waters continue to rise.
A French headteacher stirred up a storm when she sent a letter to parents, suggesting pupils would be forced to eat meat at school, because “secularism must be respected in its entirety”. She has since been forced to backtrack.
A scandal that would have stayed hidden in the margins of some academic journal is currently engrossing France. At the centre is Grand Rabbi Gilles Bernheim, the popular leader of France's Jewish community, who resigned on Thursday amid mounting pressure.
Public opinion has already taken shape in France’s new secularism debate, with two new polls revealing the vast majority of French people would ban religious symbols, in particular the Islamic veil, from all workplaces.
