Shalom in Paris: a small flame for a great new work
On October 4th 2017, the Feast Day of St. Francis of Assisi, the first missionaries of the Shalom Catholic Community arrived in the heart of the 20th arrondissement of Paris, near the Parish Church of Our Lady of the Cross, in Ménilmontant. It is a very lively district of the capital, thanks to its diversity of lifestyles and the different origins of the populations that live there. The Chez Moi Associative Café, run by the Shalom Community since January 2018, offers a cozy and creative atmosphere with Brazilian specialties such as tapioca and tropical fruit juices. But more than this, the Café is a welcoming place, like a rather neutral interface, where we can receive all people, even those who don’t ...

History of the Youth for Jesus Project
The founding of the Shalom Work took place through young people who were sensitive to the call of God and, in an innovative way, desired to transform the evangelization of the youth of Fortaleza through an unpretentious cafeteria. Today, we can see that the magnitude of the growth of this seed thrown by God has a strong resemblance to the parable of the mustard seed, and that the soil chosen by the Father, the farmer, was the youth. By 1988, 6 years after the Shalom Catholic Community was founded, the number of members had grown in quantity and diversity, but it was evident that many of the strong features of the work that were implanted by the presence of young ...

Transforming people’s lives through the arts
“The Song of the Irias” was performed in Boston on April 12th in English and again on April 13th in Portuguese of 2019. With an audience totaling over 300 people between both days, the fruits of many prior months of hard work by the entire cast and supporting ensemble could be seen at the end of each night’s performance. There was a very real and present feeling of happiness and of God’s power to touch and transform people’s lives through the arts and a special moment of prayer after show allowing the Holy Spirit to work in everybody’s hearts. For some people it was a way to prepare to begin Holy Week, for others it was a first experience with ...