Quoted from AP News [1]:
A self-described man of peace and pragmatism, ["a French-born Muslim, Elyazid"] Benferhat and a friend gathered a group of young Muslim men to stand guard outside their town’s cathedral for the All Saints’ holiday weekend, to symbolically protect it and show solidarity with Catholic churchgoers [after hearing "about a deadly Islamic extremist attack on a church in Nice"].[They stood in front of] the 13th-century church in the southern town of Lodeve[.]...His group is considering how to take the idea forward, and would like to do it again for Christmas, and for other towns to follow Lodeve’s lead. But for now all religious services in France are banned at least until Dec. 1 to try to slow fast-rising virus infections.
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