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.

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 of tuberculosis, died at the age of 96.