'The Jungle' in Calais. UK Catholic leaders urged the British government to accept more child refugees from northern France after reports that hundreds of young people are being forced to sleep outdoors in low temperatures.
An English and Scottish bishop said the situation of migrants waiting in the French port of Calais for the opportunity to cross the English Channel into the UK has become increasingly perilous since the clearance of an illegal migrants’ camp known as ‘The Jungle’ a year ago.
They urged the government to relax rules that limit the number of child refugees the UK will accept from France.
‘Forget wounds of the past’ – bishop
An African bishop has called on the people of South Sudan to work together for peace as internal conflict and starvation are affecting millions of people in the embattled country.
Bishop Eduardo Hiiboro Kussala said: “We are never defined by our past but our present, as no matter how hard the past, you can always start again.
“We wish to forget the wounds of the past and move ahead towards peace,” he said at the Interstate Governors’ Strategic Intervention Conference for Peace.
After the separation from Khartoum in December 2013, ongoing civil conflict erupted between President Salva Kiir and former Vice President Riek Machar, which has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths and the creation of millions of internally displaced people and refugees.