Spirituality
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Central Europe
German party wants ban on ritual slaughter
The right-wing AfD parliamentary group in Germany has requested a national ban on ritual slaughter. However, the anti-Semitism commissioner in the country harshly criticises that proposal. According to anti-Semitism commissioner Felix Klein, the initiative reminds of the 1930s when the National Socialist party rose to power. He calls the motion…
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Southern Europe
Spanish 'cathedral' builder Justo Gallego has passed away
For sixty years, Justo Gallego built a 'cathedral' near Madrid with his own hands and with materials destined for the scrap heap. The church still unfinished, he will never see the end of the construction. Last Sunday, the “madman” who had to give up his vocation as a monk because…