Despite what is happening around the world, many believe the Holy Spirit is moving. The evidence for this is showing up in unexpected places, such as France.

With a population of nearly 69 million, like many European nations, France is very secularized. Some have even described the country as going through a period of ‘de-Christianization’.

But there are indications this is changing as we are seeing people expressing a renewed interest in the Christian faith.

This was shown in the surprising turnout a this year’s March for Jesus

It’s estimated that nearly 60,000 people participated in the march across France and its territories held on Saturday, May 24, 2025, Evangelical Focus reports.

While Christians in 13 communities participated in this annual event, the largest turn out was in Paris where between 40,000 and 50,000 attended the march.

This was nearly double the turn out of last year, when approximately 25,000 attended the Paris march. It was quadruple the 10,000 who attended in 2022.

It is estimated that between 6,000 to 8,000 turned out for the march in Lyon. This was followed by 3,000 who marched in Basse-Terre, the capital of the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, a French territory.

“It is the confirmation that God is at work. There is a real movement of the Spirit across the country, touching all the churches. When God opens a door, no one can close it again”, said André Raoilison in an interview with Evangeliques info. He is the President of the National Federation of MPJ that helps organize this annual event.

It is also showing up in a faith resurgence among Roman Catholics the dominant Christian religion in France. The Roman Catholic website, Aleteia, reported that a record number of people were water baptized on Easter Sunday this year.

While Catholics believe in infant baptism, 10,314 adults were baptized this year. This represented a 45% increase over the previous record of adult baptisms set in 2023.

The article added that the largest concentration of baptisms took place in the 18 to 25 age group.

These public declarations of ‘adult’ faith reveals that people are tiring of the rampant secularization that has long dominated the country’s culture.

According to the latest statistics, there are at least 745,000 Evangelical Christians in France as of 2023. This is up from the 50,000 reported in 1950. This is based on the official counts from the 2,700 Evangelical churches in the country.

But in a country that averages just one evangelical church per 25,000 people, there are dozens of house churches, prayer groups and Bible studies in smaller communities without an official evangelical presence. These are not part of the official tally.