Shalom Catholic Community assumes ‘San Lorenzo’ International Youth Centre in Rome

Shalom Catholic Community assumes the responsibilities of the ‘San Lorenzo’ International Youth Centre in Rome
On the 13th of March of 1983, St. John Paul presented the young people of the world with a gift. He inaugurated the ‘San Lorenzo’ International Youth Centre, a few feet away from St. Peter’s Square, in Vatican: a welcoming place for pilgrimages, encounters, prayer and evangelisation for all the young people who come to the Eternal city.
The Volunteers of Shalom Missionary Expedition have just arrived in Cape Verde

The Volunteers of Shalom Missionary Expedition arrived in Cape Verde
Volunteers of the Shalom Missionary Expedition have just arrived in Praia, Cape Verde where Shalom Catholic Community has been present since 2016. The Expedition Program is an initiative created by the Human Promotion Advisory which aims to integrate volunteer services and works to rescue human dignity providing help to the neediest in different parts of the world. There are now 21 volunteers and missionaries in Praia from Brazil and Italy. They’ve come to share joy, hope and God’s love through their volunteer service. As their first activity, they celebrated a Holy Mass with Cardinal Arlindo Furtado who welcomed and blessed them. The next 12 days will be an incredible experience of loving God by serving those who are vulnerable and ...
Shalom INTERNET-ional prayer meeting

Shalom INTERNET-ional Prayer Meeting: a new initiative of the Holy Spirit
Due to geographical distances not allowing many people to access a Shalom Evangelization Center in their country, the online initiative for vocational training and awakening was born, it is called the INTERNET-ional Prayer Meeting. It is basically a monthly meeting in English with moments of prayer, preaching and sharing on how to make a vocational discernment. Last Sunday,  Shalom Catholic Community organized the first INTERNET-ional Prayer Meeting with the participation of young adults from different parts of the world, such as: Poland, Congo, Malaysia, Philippines, France, Italy, and Jamaica. Some of them joined through hangouts and others were connected through youtube. Francesco Barlocco, a Shalom Community missionary from Italy presented the meeting with Justine Laferriere from France and Sebastian from ...
Second Preparatory Meeting for WYD

Second Preparatory Meeting for World Youth Day Panama 2019
With just six months to go before the next WYD in Panama more than 80 countries from 5 continents sent delegates from their dioceses and ecclesial movements to attend the Second Preparatory Meeting for World Youth Day Panama 2019 with the Local Organizing Committee to know more how Panama has been preparing the organization, accommodation, registration, communication, logistics, security, and also getting to know the host country to better guide pilgrims of their respective countries into the WYD. From Vatican, members of the Dicastery for the Laity, the Family and Life such as Fr. Alexandre Awi Mello, the Secretary of the Dicastery and Fr. João Chagas, Shalom Life missionary, who is head of the Youth Office attended the event as ...

Shalom Krakow mission has its first Polish postulant
The Shalom catholic missionaries from Brazil first arrived in the capital of Poland in 2015, just three years later the community has welcomed the first local vocation, Agnieszka Kluz the first Polish postulant of Shalom Life community in the land of Saint John Paul II. The foundation started with three missionaries of Shalom Life community and one of covenant Community. During the first year they worked as volunteers in the registration committee for the World Youth Day (WYD) 2016 with the French, Italian and Spanish pilgrims. “We can say that the house of the community was officially inaugurated in December 2016, after the WYD celebrations when we finally managed to live in a community house because before were living in ...
El Cerco de Jericó: fuerza de la oración en Madagascar

Siege of Jericho: the power of prayer in Madagascar
The Shalom in Madagascar, Africa, commemorated the Siege of Jericho with a seven-day adoration vigil from April 23-30, 2018. It began and ended with Holy Mass. According to Raimundo Manoel, a missionary member of Shalom Life Community in Madagascar, the Siege of Jericho vigil has been done every year in their chapel since 2012, but this year the participation was much greater: “In addition to those who are already active in our initiatives, lots of new people were present at the Siege including members of the Franciscan Third Order and other lay religious people“. During the event many people shared their happiness for testimony to the power of prayer in their lives.Our missionary added: “Another fruitful outcome, besides the number ...