A Happy Eastern Orthodox Christmas in Calais

Orthodox Christmas 2016 at refugee camps

Migrants and refugees enjoy a festive day riding their bicycles around their camps in Calais and Dunkirk as they celebrate Christmas. Many Middle Eastern and North African Christians belong to one of the Eastern Orthodox and Coptic churches which observe Christmas Day as determined by the Julian Calendar.

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