Author: Elizabeth Bryant

The Great Mosque of Paris on May 2, 2009. Photo courtesy of Creative Commons/LPLT The Great Mosque of Paris on May 2, 2009. Photo courtesy of Creative Commons/LPLT

Midwife Mathilde Delespine speaks with a Malian woman at a new women’s center outside Paris, France. The woman is afraid her child will be excised, as she was. RNS photo by Elizabeth Bryant.

PARIS (RNS) On a sunny spring morning, an 18-year-old college student wrapped a scarf around her head to feel what it would be like to wear a veil.“I felt stressed,” said Valentine Cannepyn, who comes from a Christian background and studies at Sciences Po, an elite Paris university. “I felt uncomfortable.”A few miles north in…

French Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, Archbishop of Lyon attends the MEDEF summer forum on the campus of the Ecole Polytechnique, in Palaiseau near Paris, August 29, 2008. REUTERS/Charles Platiau (FRANCE) – RTX8EHS © Charles Platiau / Reuters

Philippe Zribi, far left, jokes with butchers Mostafa Makhoukh, center and Abdelh Haq at Boucherie de l’Argonne butcher’s store in Paris. Religion News Service photo by Elizabeth Bryant

People look at flowers and messages to pay tribute to the victims of last year’s January and November shooting attacks near the statue at the Place de la Republique in Paris, France, on January 6, 2016. France this week commemorates the victims of last year’s Islamist militant attacks on satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and a…