In their desperation to reach Britain, the 5,000 or so migrants stranded in Calais daily risk death or injury trying to board lorries and trains. Their plight is exacerbated by appalling living conditions, but their faith – Christian and Muslim – remains strong Sat on the ground in front of the tent he shares with two other men from Eritrea, Abil raises his eyes to the sky and says, “My God is love”. He, like most of the other 2,500 or so inhabitants of this shanty-town migrants’ camp near the mouth of the Channel Tunnel, wants, as soon as possible, to get over or under the sea to England. Every night they try to board lorries or trains. One of Abil’s friends shows me the scars on his leg and toe that he has incurred in his so far fruitless attempts. A