The UK’s Church Times reported that church leaders in France have called for calm after the deadlock of Sunday’s Assemblée Nationale elections.
“While we’ve seen very different visions clash, sometimes with improvised programmes, deeper questions about human meaning and the common good haven’t been addressed,” the Bishop of Nanterre, the Rt Revd Matthieu Rougé, said. “For men and women of faith, political thinking is now urgently needed — the capacity for responsibility, unity, and respectful dialogue will be key if there’s to be a government worthy of the name.”
Meanwhile the President of the National Council of French Evangelicals, Erwan Cloarec, called on churches to show that another form of society was possible: “It must be a society where the divisions over origin, gender, and social condition that fracture humanity do not prevail,” he told the international edition of Christianity Today.
The president of the country’s Protestant Federation, Christian Krieger, focussed on what individual Christians could do at such a time of division and uncertainty: “May everyone reject hateful and divisive speeches and promote love, justice, and peace. And let us pray our representatives are guided by values of humanism, respect, and fraternity.”
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Picture above: different paths converge at the Arc de Triomphe, Paris