The official logo of WYD 2019 in Panama came out
  As it has been revealed at the beginning of the year, Shalom Catholic Community is going to open a missionary house in Panama. We have met father Cristiano Pinheiro, international assistant of the general Moderator, who told us how the community is going to be involved in the World Youth Day. “On next September our Community is going to open a house in Panama with 5 missionaries of Life Community who are going to begin the works of evangelization there, but in a special way they are going to work, for about 1 year and a half, in the local organization committee of the World Youth Day, in communion with the archdiocese of Panama. Most of their occupation their ...

Through Shalom I am discovering the way that God has chosen for me
“Behold, I Make All Things New”   My parents raised me and my sisters Catholic, so we went to Mass every Sunday and I went to CCD and received all my sacraments. I liked following rules and I was a “good Catholic”. I did everything I was supposed to do, but I didn’t have a relationship with God; I didn’t even know that was possible. When I began my first semester of college, I wanted to live what I thought was a “normal college life”. I started going to parties every weekend, but I still went to Mass on Sunday, and I was also going to a weekly Christian Fellowship meeting. After a couple of months of living like this, ...

“Behold, I Make All Things New”
My parents raised me and my sisters Catholic, so we went to Mass every Sunday and I went to CCD and received all my sacraments. I liked following rules and I was a “good Catholic”. I did everything I was supposed to do, but I didn’t have a relationship with God; I didn’t even know that was possible. When I began my first semester of college, I wanted to live what I thought was a “normal college life”. I started going to parties every weekend, but I still went to Mass on Sunday, and I was also going to a weekly Christian Fellowship meeting. After a couple of months of living like this, I knew that I needed to make ...

“There’s no human condition that can’t be healed, with love!”
“The Song of the Irias” is a play written by Wilde Fabio, a member of the Shalom Catholic Community.  It has been performed all over Brazil to wide acclaim. It was originally written in Portuguese and has been translated into Spanish, Italian, Hungarian and most recently English. The central theme revolves around the same “Salvation Story” found in the bible, from Genesis to Jesus.  We see how the first human, who was an intimate friend of God, lost that personal relationship .  As the story progresses, the viewer sees how the protagonist’s sins transform him from a human into an “Iria” – or a deformed person. Finally, the play explains how Jesus brought back this person’s dignity, and in doing ...

The Holy Father Francis’ video message for the 32nd World Youth Day (Palm Sunday, 9 April 2017)
Today, 21 March 2017, the Holy Father’s Message to young people in preparation for the 32nd World Youth Day 2017 was published. The Day will be celebrated at diocesan level on 9 April 2017, Palm Sunday, on the theme: “The Mighty One has done great things for me” (Luke 1:49). This year, to encourage wider dissemination of the Message, Pope Francis wished to present it to young people throughout the world with a video in which he indicates certain themes from the document and invites them to undertake the path of spiritual preparation leading to the next international celebration of World Youth Day, scheduled to take place in Panama from 22 to 27 January 2019. The following is the full ...

A place where God taught me that true Love is a synonym of life offering
    The experience I have made in Tunisia’s mission was very surprising and which will mark my life for ever. I have seen the action of the Father’s merciful’s heart which drove me to the desert to speak to my heart.  When I have beem sent to Tunisia, I did not know exactly what I would find there, but I had the opportunity to know a deeply happy church, with a beauty characterized by a  joy of life, which is seen on the face of every priest, consecrated, missionary who had the grace to know it. I have met in the desert the richness of offering my life every day, this offering lived each time, in every minute, in ...

Shalom Carnival Retreat in Bolivia: a 180 ° turn around
It was at an altitude of 416 meters, 20km from the most important and populous city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, from February 25 to 28, the 180 Degree Retreat (180 °) was held, organized by the mission of Shalom Catholic Community whom is in the city since two years, with 4 missionaries from the Community of Life and one from Covenant one. The 180 Grades event brought together about 80 young Bolivians and 35 volunteers in a retreat house, where for three days they participated into an intense program. In the morning – in a format of camp – the event counted on lectures, praise, adoration, dynamics and games. In the afternoon, the participants did the Seminar in ...

Shalom Carnival Retreat: Since I made this experience my life changed!
Hello, my name is Larissa Moura, missionary of Shalom Covenant Community in the city of Natal, Brazil. My first experience with the Effusion of the Holy Spirit was during a Shalom Community retreat in the Carnival period of 2012. At that time I lived one of the best phases of my life because I had always dreamed of living in a capital city, studying journalism and living alone. And I was living exactly as I had dreamed. At 19, I felt I was happy to have conquered all this but there was an emptiness within me that I could not understand or fill. During this time I met two girls who lived near my house and invited me to visit ...

The Feast of Saint Peter’s Chair: an anniversary for Shalom Community
The 22nd of February 2012, the day of the Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter, the Statutes of Shalom Catholic Community have been definitely approved. According to our founder, Moysés Azevedo, the fact that the Statutes of the Community  were approved on this day means that we exist to profess the faith of Peter. This is the meaning of our existence. That is why God created us, that God has constituted this spiritual family. The reason why Shalom exists is to profess Peter’s faith. And when Peter professes his faith, who does he say? Jesus was have a dialog with his disciples, in a pagan region, and asked: “Who do people say I am?” And they answered a lots ...