A cycle of studies on "Religion, laicism, interculture" opened at the Catholic Institute of Paris on Tuesday evening. This cycle of studies also welcomes about twenty Muslim students from the Training Institute of the Paris Mosque. The university diploma is meant for the acquisition of the knowledge of the legally constituted state and of the democratic values of the French Republic. Thus, Rector Pierre Cahné explained why his Institute accepted to pay a contribution to the training of future imams in the Catholic daily La Croix. "The Catholic Institute wrote Cahné had been pondering for a long time over the necessity to promote training for foreigners wishing to become integrated in France, assuming religious and cultural responsibilities, and acquiring public voice". The programme of the course proposed by the Paris Institute comes from the close collaboration with the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Immigration. The training pointed out the rector "has nothing to do with theological teaching. Our programme is clear: before us, there are strangers who want to live in France, assuming social and religious functions. Our duty is to work things in such a way that they will be able to carry out this task in the most effective and human way, possibly with no conflicts. The French society is full of values. Why rejecting to convey them?".
