The gap between very high incomes and low salaries has been widening for several years, says Laurent Schlumberger, president of the national council of the Reformed Church of France. Where governments and consumers are reluctant to act, there is still a moral imperative on high earners to refuse grossly unequal remuneration, he argues.

The Socialist front-runner in the race for the French presidency wants the separation of church and state to be put directly into the constitution.

A bill passed by the French Senate makes it a criminal offence to publicly question events termed as genocide under French law, raising serious free speech issues.

France's main Protestant grouping has added its voice to criticism of government repatriation of Roma migrants and demolishing Roma camps.