Why the name Shalom?
Do you know why the name Shalom and how this name came to be for the Community?
Yes, Halleluya Festival at WYD Krakow 2016!!
WYD 2016 will welcome the biggest Brazilian festival of integrated arts. The event will be integrated in the Youth Festival to be held in Krakow (Poland) from 27-29 July. If you are not familiar with Halleluya Festival it is Brazilian’s biggest Catholic festival of integrated arts and certainly the only one of the kind in the […]
CJS-France 2015: A sign of Peace
Despite all the atrocities that occurred in Paris, France, in the early November 2015, the Archdiocese of Evry-Corbeil-Essone, only 30km away from Paris, welcomed over 300 young people from different parts of world in the CJS (click HERE) event. These Catholic youngsters wanted to be a sign of Peace to the world as they gathered there to pray, […]
3rd edition of the pilgrimage to the Saint Joseph Oratory
On 25th and 26th of April, Shalom Catholic Community in Toronto promoted the third edition of the pilgrimage to the Oratory of Saint Joseph in Montreal, Quebec. Once a year, since 2012, with the exception of 2014, the community organizes a pilgrimage to sacred Catholic places in Canada. This initiative is an important way to […]
Follow us on #lenteveryday
Our small sacrifice of today on our #lenteveryday challenge is to start the novena to Saint Joseph. It can be said by anytime of the year, specially around his feast, which is today. His intercession is known as a powerful instrument of God’s providence. Follows the link to the novena:https://comshalom.org/en/novena-to-saint-joseph/ #saintjosephprovideforus #comshalom #instashalom #toronto#shalomtoronto #catholicchurch […]
Where to find us
Shalom Catholic Community was established in July 9th 1982 as a result of a life-changing encounter with Pope John Paul II that Moyses Azevedo, a young man in his 20’s, had a few years before. It also has as its cofounder Emmir Nogueira, a married woman who at that same time was involved in other Church activities. […]
Moyses Azevedo: “I wanted to freely give what I have freely received”
Moyses Louro de Azevedo Filho, 55 years old, was born in Fortaleza, Brazil, on the 4th of November. He is the founder and general moderator of Shalom Catholic Community, established in 1982. The community is spread all over Brazil and 15 other countries. His parents always wanted to have a boy but instead they had […]
Thomas Cardinal Collins releases statement concerning Christians in Iraq.
On August 7th, 2014, His Eminence Thomas Cardinal Collins, Archbishop of Toronto, release the following statement concerning the persecution of Christians and minority groups in Iraq. Statement from Cardinal Thomas Collins, Archbishop of Toronto re: Iraqi Christians August 7, 2014 Far away from the comfort of our television screens, tablets and newspapers, a tragedy continues […]
Pope Francis canonizes new Saints
(Vatican Radio) This morning the Holy Father Francis received in audience Cardinal Angelo Amato, S.D.B., prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, during which he extended the liturgical cult of the following blesseds to the universal Church, inscribing them in the book of Saints: -Francois de Laval, French bishop of Quebec, Canada (1623-1708). […]
Cardinal Koch on Christian Unity and Jewish-Catholic relations
The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity is being celebrated by many Churches in the northern hemisphere from January 18th to 25th, focusing this year on a provocative question from St Paul to the early Christian community in Corinth: ‘Has Christ been divided?’ Resources for this annual event have been developed by an ecumenical group […]