Convention 2017: The international Shalom Youth Congress
During Shalom Convention where we are going to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the Community, right after our encounter with the Holy Father, Shalom youth, from all around the world, is going to meet up for a very special event. Vitor works in the Youth Advisory in the Diaconia, in Brazil, which is organizing the event.  “Shalom Community’s Youth is invited to renew its life offering and is going to be sent as protagonists of today’s evangelisation.” For the 35th anniversary of the Community, for which God starts a new time of graces, Shalom Youth Congress (SYC) is very important. The SYC became an annual meeting of young people of Shalom Community, which is already a great grace. Rome, in ...

Acamps Family
Here is the testimony of a mother who participated with her family in an Acamp’s, an event of the Community. She told Comshalom about the spiritual and human experience they have lived together, with other families.  God wants opened families, strengthened in the unity of Christ and in the joy which is source of life, prayer and gratitude! When I knew there was a Divine Inspiration about a Camp for families, I thought “this is crazy! It is not going to work: It can’t be a divine inspiration”. I imagined my family there, my children (less than 3 years old), all the conditions which could arrive in my mind to justify that I would not be a part of it. ...

My extraordinary life
Family in mission: See the young Gabrielle Gomes’ testimony, fourth daughter from a family of 10 children, who let everything behind on their native land to go in mission!   “I prefer a Church which is bruised, hurting and dirty because it has been out on the streets, rather than a Church which is unhealthy from being confined and from clinging to its own security” (Pope Francis) My name is Gabrielle, I am 17 years old, I am from Brasilia and I live a life out of the ordinary. Some people think it is something incredible, others think it is crazy, but to me it is happiness. My parents are consecrated of Shalom Community as Covenant Community, my two big ...

The Sacred Heart of Jesus in Shalom spirituality
In this month of June, which is devoted to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the Catholic Church, Daniel Ramos, current Local Responsible of Shalom Catholic Community in Toulon told us about how the devotion of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is lived in Shalom Catholic Community spirituality. “Shalom Catholic Community adores and venerates the sacred heart of Jesus. The Community, in its spirituality, contemplates and adores the heart of Jesus, resurrected and opened. Jesus’ heart is not only adored on the top of the Cross as a lifeless heart from which flows water and blood. Certainly, we cannot separate Jesus’ resurrection from his passion, we cannot separate what has been united in the heart of Christ, that is the ...

Shalom Catholic Community is on the way to a new missionary house in the french capital, Paris.
On the solemn Corpus Christi Day, June 18th, Fr. Cristiano Pinheiro – Shalom Catholic Community International Assistant – and Amanda Pinheiro – the future Local Responsible of the first Shalom house in Paris – visited the work in progress of the new Shalom Catholic Community foundation in France, in its capital, the City of Light, “Ville Lumière”, Paris. The new house installation is part of the structures of Our Lady of the Holy Cross of Ménilmontant Church (Église Notre-Dame-de-la-Croix de Ménilmontant) in the 20th arrondissement of Paris. Fr. Stéphane Palaz – the current parish priest – has carried out a common project for two years that seeks to create a new structure to establish the Community and to open a ...

Shalom showed me that I am a child of God
My name is Javier Francisco Kovacs Benitez. I’m 32 years old, and I’m a pride Paraguayan! I was raised as a Catholic since I was a kid and although my family broke up when I was a child, I became quite involved with the church while attending school, but this dramatically changed when I was about 18 years old. When I started the University, I completely turned away from God, the Church and all that comes with it. I began to make my life and taking my decisions by letting the world influence me, completely ignoring what God had for me and what He wanted from me. I was like any other young man in search of happiness throughout professional ...

Shalom Catholic Community meets the new cardinal of Sweden Monsignor Anders
On Wednesday 14th of June in Rome, at Shalom Catholic Community International Headquarter, a great meeting took place, between the new cardinal Anders Arborelius, Bishop of Stockholm, Sweden, the founder of Shalom Catholic Community, Moysés Azevedo, the International Assistant of the Community, Fr. Cristiano Pinheiro and the shalom missionaries of this house. His Grace Anders Arborelius will be elected cardinal on next June consistory. It’s the first ever red hat for the tiny Catholic Church in the majority Lutheran nation, which Pope Francis visited on last October for the joint commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. Mons. Arborelius is the first bishop of Stockholm with Swedish origins since the Reformation. Born in a Lutheran family, in 1969 he ...

Shalom Convention 35years at the great Basilica of St John Lateran Rome 2017
#ShalomConvention35years is a world meeting of Shalom Catholic Community to celebrate its anniversary and will be held from September 3rd to 9th, 2017. It will be a pilgrimage which offers the opportunity to visit historical basilicas and holy places in Rome and Assisi. The program includes talks, prayers, cultural exchange, performing arts, catechesis with Shalom Catholic Community’s founder, Moysés Azevedo and the co-founder Emmir Nogueira and the Shalom International Youth Congress. A private audience with Pope Francis at Paul VI Hall is also foreseen as one of the greatest moments in Shalom Catholic Community’s history. Families, young people, lay celibates, priests, bishops are already registered. Join us! Save your place!  Shalom Convention 35years first meeting will be a Eucharist Celebration ...

Shalom Community met the responsibles for the cause for the Canonization of Cardinal Van Thuân
On May 15th, the postulator of the cause for the Beatification and Canonization of the Servant of God Cardinal Van Thuân, Waldery Hilgeman and Dr. Luisa Melo from the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace in Vatican visited the house of Shalom International Office in Rome.  The holy Mass has been celebrated by Fr. Cristiano Pinheiro, the International Assistant of Shalom Community and after the Eucharistic Celebration Shalom missionaries served a dinner. It was a fraternal moment of sharing where Fr.Cristiano explained for the guests that cardinal Van Thuan’s testimony is well known among Shalom Community members and the servant of God is already loved by Shalom Community. Many texts and books of the cardinal is part of formation process of Shalom missionaries. ...