“Stay online with Jesus”
The 6th Philippine Conference on New Evangelization (PCNE) was held from July 18-21 at the University of Santos Tomas in Manila. The theme of the PCNE was Filipino Youth Walking with Jesus and was chosen to celebrate the Year of the Youth as declared by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines in response to Pope Francis’ Synod on Youth last year. The goal of this year’s PCNE was “to thank God for the gift of the youth, listen to them, and to give the youth opportunity to be protagonists of new evangelization…” 1 There were 4 days with many graces and a great experience with the young people, many of whom were the main speakers.  The first day was mostly ...

Acamps Summer Festival 2019 – II edition, Hungary
Organized by the Shalom Catholic Community, the Acamps aimed to offer all young people the opportunity to change their lives through fun, friendship, brotherhood, new friendships, experiences of prayer and adoration, favoring in any case a meeting personal with Jesus. The Acamps Summer Festival held its second edition from 7th to 11th August on the largest and most famous lake in Central Europe, Lake Balaton, in Hungary. The event follows the inspiration of the Shalom youth camps (Acamp’s) that already take place in different cities of Brazil and Latin America and this brought together over 300 young people of different nationalities, as Italians, Swiss, Spanish, French, Germans, Poles, Hungarians and representatives of the Holy Land. During the mornings the young ...

The end of an era… To begin a NEW ONE!
In September of 2017, we arrived in the Philippines for a new chapter of our missionary lives. None of us have ever lived in a foreign country before and for us it was like going on to live a new adventure that this life of following Jesus would guide us to. From then to now, we have had the opportunity of getting to know this culture in all the possible ways through food tasting, as of almost every day in the 6 first months that we lived in a farm located in a province named Masbate and even after that, experiencing the most famous delicacy of the country called balut. Also, we have had the chance of going to different ...

Gabriella Dias talks about CHARIS, the International Service of Communion for The Catholic Charismatic Renewal (CCR)
Catholic Charismatic Renewal (CCR) The Catholic Charismatic Renewal was founded in the late 1960s in the United States of America. It is a movement within the Catholic Church which spread rapidly around the world, and today has more than 120 million followers.[i] “At the core of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal is the ‘grace of Pentecost’ also known as baptism in the Holy Spirit.”[ii] “Pope John Paul II welcomed the renewal” and it became “very much part of his strategy of ‘new evangelization’” (ibid).   Catholic Charismatic Renewal International Service (CHARIS) Last December, The Dicastery for the Laity, the Family and Life announced that Pope Francis, following in the footsteps of Saint John Paul II, would give us a precious gift ...

Hope comes to Africa
In February, Shalom Catholic Community missions in Europe began a fundraising campaign to help our missions on the African continent. The campaign, “Your help brings hope to Africa”, continues through to the end of July. Since the campaign began four months ago, we have received significant amounts of financial aid, as well as witnessed the fruits of Divine Providence. With the monies already collected, we can begin the apostolic works at the mission in Lubango, Angola. The Shalom Community has been present on the African continent since 2007. In January 2019, Community missionaries arrived in Lubango to establish our 6th mission in Africa. Initially, the missionaries worked to structure the house where the apostolic activities will take place. The donated ...