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France

Surface:
543965 km2
Inhabitants:
62636580
Capital:
Paris

Mission work
ECM works with six teams in France. The focus for forty years has been in central France. ECM collaborates with France Mission, a national mission organization, in many efforts.

ECM longs for...
Since the French Revolution, France has been a secular country and through the years little has changed. Even the Roman Catholic church is faced with empty churches and a shortage of priests. This is especially true for Central France.

Meanwhile occultism flourishes. Witches, spiritualists, and all kinds of sects and cults connect easily with the French population.

An added complication is that the Muslim minority has grown a lot in the past decades. Their numbers are estimated around 4 million.

All these developments are major challenges for the church. ECM hopes that the new and existing churches can preach the Gospel as an answer to these challenges.

Religions

Christian
61%
Non-religious
26%
Muslim
11%

Christians

Catholic
58%
Protestantism
1.9%
Orthodox
1.1%

Facts

Economy
The sixth-largest economy in the world. A solid base in agriculture and industry as well as the world's foremost tourist destination, leading to a strong service industry. Socialized economic policies provide good public service (such as health care), infrastructure and a highly trained professional workforce, but they have created a system prone to bureaucracy and strikes. Some sectors were hit hard by the economic downturn of 2008-2009. Systemic resistance to reform, coupled with fear of impending decline, paralyzes decisive action to improve the economy. Yet, this same conservatism guarded against even greater financial damage in 2008-09. some of the immigrant/minority communities form a restive and, at times, violent economic underclass.

The statistics are meant to give an impression, not to stigmatise. Statistics taken from "Operation World, 7th edition, 2010", see also www.operationworld.org

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