What is French ”Laïcité” (laicity)?

Our French President has recently drawn criticism after one of his speeches during his visit to the Vatican . In front of the highest Roman Catholic Clergy, he emphasized the importance of the French "christian roots" (mainly Catholic), while he also pleaded for a "positive" version of "laïcité" ( laicity , sometimes translated by secularism). Click to continue But many French...

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