Hai cercato aparecida - Shalom Catholic Community

Official list of members of the 2024 Ordinary General Assembly

4 April 2024

All members of the official list must register by May 3, 2024. The General Assembly of the Shalom Catholic Community will take place from Friday, August 16 to Friday, August 30 in Fortaleza, Ceará.

The Shalom Community celebrates the ordination of 4 new deacons

10 December 2022

Francisco Tiago, Evandro Meneses, Francisco Wyradan and Vitor Aragão are now living this fruitful time of Diaconate, following the path towards priestly ordination.

Founder

Moysés Louro de Azevedo Filho is the founder and general moderator of the Shalom Catholic Community, a consultant for the Pontifical Council for the Laity since 2007 and the Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization since 2011. Born on November 4, 1959, in Fortaleza, Brazil, he was educated in a Catholic environment and, […]

How God wants guide the young people for the next WYD in Panama in 2019?

22 March 2017

Message of the Holy Father Francis for the XXXII World Youth Day (Palm Sunday, April 9, 2017) Dear Young Friends, Here we are, on the road again, following our great meeting in Kraków, where we celebrated the Thirty-first World Youth Day and the Jubilee for Young People as part of the Holy Year of Mercy. […]

Walk of faith: 500km of sugar, storms and blisters

26 July 2015

The Caminho da Fe is one of the longest Catholic pilgrimage routes in the world, stretching 500km (310 miles) across south-eastern Brazil – it’s also one of the newest. Bob Walker joined the faithful on their trek to Aparecida. There are many places you’d rather not be when a storm of biblical proportions breaks above […]

Founder

Moysés Louro de Azevedo Filho is the founder and general moderator of the Shalom Catholic Community. He is also a counselor of the Pontifical Council for the laity since 2007, and of the Pontifical Council for the promotion of the New Evangelization since 2011. Moysés was born in 4th november 1959 in Fortaleza (Brazil). He […]

Pope Francis received Moyses, the founder of the Shalom Catholic Community

12 March 2015

(Vatican City, 15 February 2014) Pope Francis on Friday received in a private audience Moyses de Azevedo Filho, the founder of the Shalom Catholic Community, at Casa Santa Marta in the Vatican. The Pope met the Shalom Community in 2007 during the Conference of Aparecida, Brazil. In the same year, Pope Benedict XVI gave papal recognition […]