The school of Peace

The school of Peace
The School of Peace is a project of the Shalom Catholic Community whose mission is to educate and form hearts for peace through an integral training process that will offer professional and technical training courses, as well as artistic and sports training for children and young people in situation of social vulnerability. It is a space where through  meeting volunteers and people in vulnerable situations a new culture created collectively, with peace as the main foundation. The inspiration for the School of Peace came from the founder of the community,  Moyses Azevedo, when a Shalom mission house was opened in Chaves, a small city which is located on the island of Marajò in the extreme north of Brazil. Before those ...
Shalom en Taiwan

Shalom Community was being presented in Taiwan
In the last week (from 3rd to 8th April), Father Cristiano Pinheiro, the International Assistant of  Shalom Catholic Community, has been in Taiwan, Asia, for a visit to the dioceses of Hsinchu, Taichung, Kaohsiung, Chiayi, Tainan and Taipei, the capital of Taiwan. In addition to the meeting with the bishops of these dioceses, the priest attended a meeting with about 80 young people with moments of preaching, testimonies and music performances at the Youth Center in the Diocese of Tainan. “It is very significant the fact that we have been called to preach and witness precisely on this  Divine Mercy Sunday, which is the ‘Shalom Sunday’ when the liturgy takes up the Gospel of John 20, 19 (which is in ...
On the footsteps of Mary

“Have the courage of sobriety”, Fr. João Chagas on “The true source of Gain”
On the threshold of the pre-synod, which was held in Rome from March 19 to 24 and gathered young people from all over the world, the third monthly meeting “On the footsteps of Mary” was held on Saturday, March 17, with the evening theme “The true source of Gain”. The Rev. Fr. João Chagas, missionary of the Shalom Catholic Community and head of the Youth Section of the Dicastery for the Laity, the Family and Life, stressed that young people should not be content with just the answers he gave, but to seek answers to their own questions. Starting from the messages of Pope Francis for the various WYDs over the years, Fr. Chagas has mapped out an itinerary guided ...
Spedizione Shalom

Shalom Expedition Program brought joy and help to a remote location in Madagascar
On Saturday 17th of March, the city of Antsiranana, a remote location in the far north of Madagascar, lived a day of great joy at Shalom Evangelization Center where the volunteers of Shalom Expedition Program could provide medical care, cooking classes,  physical activities and personal hygiene education for adults and children. Benefactors from Brazil supported the mission through donations of oral hygiene care kits, educational materials, food, clothes and shoes to the most needy. Furthermore, 50 bibles in Malagasy dialect which is considered the national language of Madagascar were delivered, and also medicines and hospital supplies. Moreover, local people from the prayer groups of Shalom Catholic Community organized a cultural evening. In the morning, 50 patients were consulted by professional volunteers ...

Third meeting on the way to the Synod 2018 guided by the Blessed Virgin Mary
On the threshold of the pre-Synodal meeting that will be held in Rome from  19th to 24th of  March when young people from all over the world will be gathered to give their contribution to the next Synod of bishops, in the Basilica of st Mary Major (Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore) young people are gathered to pray and to listen to spiritual formation in order to prepare themselves to be active contributors of the Synod 2018 and in preparation for the next World Youth Day. In the last months, they have listened to Moysés Azevedo, founder and general moderator of Shalom Catholic Community,  cardinal Rylko, retired president of the Pontifical Council for the Laity and currently archpriest of the Rome Basilica ...