This month France has been severely rattled by what some are callingChristianophobie that has swept over the country.

In the Brittany city of Rennes, the church of Saint Jean Marie Vianney was desecrated, and in Normandy the parish hall of a church was vandalised. A similar fate befell the parish hall of the Saint-Laurent church in Maurepas, south of Paris, while in the middle of the French capital a man carrying a knife entered Saint-Ambroise church just before Mass. Police were swiftly on the scene and no one was hurt in the incident.