Overview
- Notre-Dame, the Sacré-Cœur, the Concorde obelisk and the Pont Neuf are among the Paris sites slated to be lit in red, with AED saying bridges and the obelisk will shine for ten minutes at the start of each hour until midnight while the two basilicas remain illuminated until midnight.
- Paris’s focal event is the Nuit des Témoins at Notre-Dame on Thursday, 20 November at 20:00, featuring testimonies and a procession of portraits and airing live on KTO TV and RCF–Radio Notre-Dame.
- AED reports that more than 635 churches will join globally in cities including Vienna, Rome, Toronto, Mexico City and Bogota, with French sites such as Mont‑Saint‑Michel, Lourdes, Bastia Cathedral and the European Parliament in Strasbourg also participating.
- AED frames the initiative with figures from its latest report, citing 413 million Christians living where religious freedom is not respected and 280 million directly exposed to persecution.
- This tenth RedWeek runs 14–21 November and traces back to AED Brazil’s 2015 illumination of Rio’s Christ the Redeemer, a model that expanded in 2024 to over a thousand sites in about 20 countries.