Christian refugees among Calais hunger strikers

Eritrean Chapel in the Jungle

Christian converts who fled Iran - where the penalty for conversion from Islam is death - are among a group of hunger strikers at the Jungle refugee camp in Calais. They have gone without food now for nearly three weeks.

Although part of the camp in was bulldozed by the authorities two weeks ago - and some of the refugees moved to a new camp organised by Medecin Sans Frontiers in Dunkirk - there are still around 5,000 people, including about 300 unaccompanied children, living in dire conditions in the Calais camp.

Katherine Maxwell-Rose reports in Christianity Today: www.christiantoday.com/article/these.christian.converts.fled.certain.death.in.iran.now.on.hunger.strike.in.calais/82053.htm