France will no longer accept imams trained by foreign countries

French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin has announced in a letter that from 1 January 2024, France will no longer accept new imams sent by other countries. That means by 1 April 2024, imams sent from other countries still present in France will not be able to remain under their current status.Instead, they will have to change their status and a specific framework will be implemented to enable associations managing places of worship to recruit imams themselves, whom they will pay directly.The me