Rights groups have attacked the European Court of Justice after it ruled employers can ban religious symbols, including headscarves, at work.

La intolerancia tiene que ver con la no aceptación del prójimo con cualquier excusa: religión, orientación sexual, color de la piel, estatura, condición socio-económica cultural, entre otras cosas. Somos intolerantes cuando por nuestra ilimitada percepción no percibimos al otro en su justa dimensión. Si queremos exterminar, eliminar, agredir a otro ser humano buscamos una excusa irracional para justificar nuestra acción. Esa conducta refleja el lado oscuro del hombre, mientras más tolerantes seamos, más espirituales somos, estamos menos atados a lo terrenal.

Bartella: Christmas after ISIL

Rome (Italy) - Pope Francis has celebrated his 80th birthday with a mass and a gluten-free cake made by a pastry chef in Rome.

An explosion near Cairo’s Coptic cathedral has killed at least 25 people and more than 30 injured, the country’s health ministry has said.

Pope Francis has extended the power to forgive abortion to all Roman Catholic priests.

Afghan officials say at least 30 people have died in a suicide bomb attack in a mosque in the capital. Some 80 people are said to have been injured, several seriously, and the death toll is expected to rise.

Hundreds of costumed revelers joined a parade in Mexico City at the weekend , disguising themselves as the iconic Mexican skeleton figure known as “ La Catrina” or “Elegant skull”.

Pope Francis has described a priest who was killed by two Islamist extremists as a martyr.

120,000 pack St Peter’s Square