"I am hereby instructing our Department of War to prepare for possible action. If we attack, it will be fast, vicious, and sweet, just like the terrorist thugs attack our CHERISHED Christians! WARNING: THE NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT BETTER MOVE FAST!" — US President Donald J. Trump, Truth Social, November 1, 2025

Muslims slaughtered five Christians because they were selling pork too close to a mosque in Yumbe.... "Yumbe was dedicated to Allah from the beginning. We cannot allow pork shops to operate here. Every Muslim youth must rise and defend the honor of our faith. Let no Christian business that promotes sin remain standing in our land." — morningstarnews.org, November 12, 2025, Uganda

"Once minority girls are declared Muslim, they are often warned that leaving Islam would make them apostates – a label that can lead to targeted violence. These threats trap girls in marriages they did not freely choose and leave them vulnerable to lifelong abuse in what can also be described as sexual slavery masked as marriage." — Katherine Sapna, who works with Christian survivors of forced conversion and forced marriage, morningstarnews.org, November 26, 2025, Pakistan

Father Rico, a priest with the Order of St. Elias in Argentina, and a Christian layman named Diego, have been traveling through Pakistan "with the sole purpose of freeing Christian slaves." In 2025 they managed to free 110 Christians, and 200 in 2024, thanks to the donations they collected to help free the slaves. — persecution.org, November 21, 2025, Pakistan

"The Christian is considered 'chura,' which ... is equivalent to saying 'excrement.' .... After a life of eating garbage, being treated like garbage, and suffering constant violence, some of them don't know what it's like to be human. That's why we have to get them to where they can live in peace, practice Christianity, and raise their children." — Father Rico, persecution.org, November 21, 2025, Pakistan

"Since the change of power, with a jihadist government at the head of the country, the situation is untenable, not only for Christians, but also for moderate Muslims and for any minority that feels genuinely threatened. [According to Brother Fahdi Azar, a Franciscan friar currently stationed in Aleppo:] 'The international community must intervene to change the current situation of instability and fear, because the attacks are incessant.' ...many young people lose their jobs because they are Christian, women are forced to wear the niqab, and threatening posters against those who do not convert to Islam adorn the streets near churches." — christanophobie.fr, November 21, 2025, Syria

"Historians say there are around 100,000 Christians in Turkey today, compared to nearly four million at the start of the 20th century, with the numbers falling significantly due to forced exile or massacres....For decades after Turkey became a republic, Christians and Jews were regularly described by certain government officials and media outlets as 'the enemies inside' and were targeted by discrimination and violence—even into the early 2000s." — Report from aina.org, November 24, 2025, Turkey

Salah "had consumed extremist propaganda online," including searching "for videos of 'infidels dying,'" and watching "videos depicting ISIS terrorists murdering people." In a cellphone video taken days before the crimes of conviction, Salah declared, "America. We are going to destroy it." — US Department of Justice, November 7, 2025, United States of America

According to a Nov. 3 report, a Christian man has been in prison for nearly a year-and-a-half on a false blasphemy charge, and his impoverished family has been unable to afford legal representation.... " His Muslim colleagues were also opposed to him when he turned down their attempts to convert him to Islam." — Report from britishasianchristians.org, November 3, 2025, Pakistan

To me, circulation of information in a society is like that of blood in the human body, essential for staying alive.

Throughout those tumultuous decades, Le Figaro remained a compass, always trying to prevent the pendulum of history from getting stuck in one extreme or another. The unwritten rule was that there is no absolute truth engraved in marble forever and that the main task of a newspaper is to challenge certainties, affirm shared values and praise human achievements.

Yes, a single newspaper has and still can help a nation find its way out of historic dead-ends or negotiate a rough patch traced by circumstances. Next time you pick up a newspaper, remember that it could be something more than a wrapper for your fish and chips.