France: One new church planted ‘every ten days’

Luke Randall  |  World
Date posted:  28 Apr 2025
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France: One new church planted ‘every ten days’

Dave Brown

There are encouraging reports of new gospel growth in France – with evangelicals claiming one church is being established every ten days, and a new study revealing younger Protestants are increasingly likely to identify as evangelical.

Data collected by the French Institute of Public Opinion (IFOP) on behalf of the Protestant Federation of France reveals that younger people and those on lower incomes who regard themselves as practicing Protestants in France are increasingly likely to identify as evangelical Christians.

While Protestantism remains a small minority view, amounting to about 2% of the French population behind Catholicism (55%) and Islam (3%), this research has left researchers questioning whether the nature of French Protestantism is changing,

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