The French are an emphatically secular people, politically speaking. Laïcité, roughly translated as “secularism”, is a fervently-held (dare I say sacred?) principle in France. Religion must be kept out of politics and governance.

The encroachment of Islam in French political life has changed all that. As a reaction to the Islamization of the Fifth Republic, a Catholic organization called Civitas has made the transition to a political party.

The following report from TV Libertés discusses the emergence of Civitas on the French political scene. Many thanks to Ava Lon for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

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