Paris Church Will Go to Court for Right to Worship

Michael Ireland
ASSIST News Service
PARIS, FRANCE (ANS)

Representatives of the Paris Elim Church will be going to court in order to continue worshipping in their current location. Paris Elim church representatives are going to be in court on Wednesday, January 19 and Friday, January 28, 2005.

"The local government is trying to chase the church from its current place of worship. This is happening to many other Protestant churches in Paris and in many other places across France," says Pastor Jack McKee of New Life Ministries based in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in an e-mail received by ASSIST New Service (ANS).

"The local authorities have had a policy for some time that is anti-Christian and they desire to see churches closed down -- they are being successful and many are being shut. In addition to pressure from local authorities is the increasing rise in Islam, which is becoming more aggressive and very anti-church and anti-Christian," McKee said."

Paris Church Will Go to Court for Right to Worship