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August 7, 2015

French, British bishops urge solution to migrant crisis in channel port

Sudanese men build a structure to house them in the "Jungle" migrant camp near Calais, France, Aug. 5. Catholic bishops from France and Britain have urged their governments to settle a growing refugee crisis around the port of Calais, where highways have been blocked and migrants from Africa and the Middle East have died attempting illegal crossings of the Channel Tunnel.

OXFORD, England - French and British Catholic bishops urged their governments to settle a growing refugee crisis around the port of Calais, where highways have been blocked and migrants from Africa and the Middle East have died attempting illegal crossings of the Channel Tunnel, or Chunnel.

Published in International