Globe Trot: Nigeria’s religious war

NIGERIA: Nasarawa state in Nigeria’s Middle Belt has seen 102 churches destroyed and more than 800 Christians killed in the last three years—part of the ongoing religious war many analysts continue to blame on economics.

FRANCE: “Mission accomplished,” a French official told reporters after authorities moved out thousands of migrants from the Jungle camp at Calais. But fires are raging along its main street, as departing migrants apparently burned shops and lean-to houses in a last act of defiance.

ISRAEL: One week after the UNESCO executive board ratified a controversial resolution ignoring Jewish and Christian ties to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, the body’s World Heritage Committee is set to vote on a similar but revised text.

Israel failed to enlist Christians in its fight over the resolution.

IRAQ: Forces battling ISIS are allowing clergy to make visits to areas liberated this week; in Qaraqosh, that means the painful realization of all that’s lost.

Irredentist cartography and boast rhetoric suggest Turkey does, indeed, want to annex Iraq.

BRITAIN: Author Paul Beatty became the first American to win the prestigious Man Booker Prize for his racial satire The Sellout.