Paris .- France announced Friday its decision to ban the prayers of any religion in the streets of the two main cities, Paris and Marseilles, as already happens in Nice, in a series of government measures to promote secularism. That was one of the points that the Interior Minister, Claude Guéant, sent representatives in France of the Catholic, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Orthodox and Protestant, in a meeting, to demonstrate the new policy aimed at ensuring the implementation of secularism in the country.
These include the creation of an inter-ministerial working group to clarify, before the summer, conditions that the principle of neutrality in public services and to propose appropriate legal measures. To promote freedom of worship is also committed to creating a "departmental conference" of religious freedom, which would consist of locally elected people responsible for the administration or the guarantee that the slaughter of animals according to their respective rites undertaken in accordance with religious sanitary rules.
The Government also proposes the development of a code of secularism and religious freedom, which will be available in late May, in addition to strengthening the teaching of this principle in public schools, or training "republican" ministers of religion , especially the magnets. It seeks, according to an Interior Ministry statement, improve knowledge and application of secularism, reassert the principle of religious neutrality in public services and ensure the free exercise of religion.
Some of these factors were included in the conclusions of the controversial debate over secularism in society, organized in early April within the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), which earned him much criticism of the ruling party was considering that in his sights to Islam. This dialogue also agreed to propose, for example, the prohibition of specific menus in public canteens or eradication of religious signs in public services, or shall cease to be mandatory for companies to respect the religious needs of their workers. 
These include the creation of an inter-ministerial working group to clarify, before the summer, conditions that the principle of neutrality in public services and to propose appropriate legal measures. To promote freedom of worship is also committed to creating a "departmental conference" of religious freedom, which would consist of locally elected people responsible for the administration or the guarantee that the slaughter of animals according to their respective rites undertaken in accordance with religious sanitary rules.
The Government also proposes the development of a code of secularism and religious freedom, which will be available in late May, in addition to strengthening the teaching of this principle in public schools, or training "republican" ministers of religion , especially the magnets. It seeks, according to an Interior Ministry statement, improve knowledge and application of secularism, reassert the principle of religious neutrality in public services and ensure the free exercise of religion.
Some of these factors were included in the conclusions of the controversial debate over secularism in society, organized in early April within the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), which earned him much criticism of the ruling party was considering that in his sights to Islam. This dialogue also agreed to propose, for example, the prohibition of specific menus in public canteens or eradication of religious signs in public services, or shall cease to be mandatory for companies to respect the religious needs of their workers.
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