A picture gallery on the Guardian’s website, showing a makeshift Ethiopian church in the migrant shanty town near Calais, was, I found, rather touching. Glossy posters of Jesus, the Virgin Mary and St Michael (to whom the church is dedicated) were stuck on the plastic sheeting wall, as worshippers, mostly women in these shots, crouched on the tarpaulined ground, while a man named as Kibrom Kasta led a service.The Sun did not share my feelings, to judge by its report under the headline “Hymn igrants”. “BBC chiefs sparked outrage last night by filming Songs of Praise at a notorious Calais migrant camp,” Matt Wilkinson reported. “The flagship religious programme shot footage at a ramshackle church on the Jungle site.” One migrant, Ezekiel Lala,
13 August 2015, The Tablet
What is self-evident strikes different people in different ways
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