It will be officially unveiled on July 4th, but on May 29th it will be presented at a press conference: it is the new "House" of the French Bishops Conference, in the heart of Paris. "Giving new visibility to the Church", "strengthening teamwork, synergism and cooperation between the different services (over 150 people)" and "easing accommodation and meetings for the bishops, the delegates from France and from all the world’s regions that are passing through Paris": a release from the Bishops Conference that has been published today lists these as the reasons behind the establishment of the new premises. "After a shake-up in the national services of the Conference, between 2002 and 2005", explain the Bishops, the problem remained of how to "scatter them across more than twenty places in Paris and the Ile de France". Hence the need "to place them all in one single building". "With the Conference’s House sates the release , the Church in France has equipped itself with a visible place of promotion and coordination" at the service "of evangelisation". The building (58, avenue de Breteuil) can accommodate all the staff; it provides modern working areas, meeting rooms, a documentation centre with a library and a 160-seat amphitheatre.
