International rhythms entertain the Halleluya Festival on the St. John Bosco Stage at WYD Panama 2019
The music festival promoted by the Shalom Community will have more than twenty-seven hours of attraction in the Youth Festival.
Through Shalom I am discovering the way that God has chosen for me
“Behold, I Make All Things New” My parents raised me and my sisters Catholic, so we went to Mass every Sunday and I went to CCD and received all my sacraments. I liked following rules and I was a “good Catholic”. I did everything I was supposed to do, but I didn’t have a […]
“Behold, I Make All Things New”
My parents raised me and my sisters Catholic, so we went to Mass every Sunday and I went to CCD and received all my sacraments. I liked following rules and I was a “good Catholic”. I did everything I was supposed to do, but I didn’t have a relationship with God; I didn’t even know […]
Emmir Nogueira of Shalom visits Sophia
Exchange of gifts during the “culture of encounter” “It’s a joy to be at Sophia today and to testify also through this short visit, to the deep unity which links the Shalom Community and the Focolari Movement. Chiara Lubich is a reference point for us. Hearing about your experiences gives me the impression of seeing here the […]
Prayer, Purgatory and All Souls’ Day
When I was a Protestant, there were things I thought I knew about the Catholic Church, things I knew I didn’t know about the Catholic Church, but didn’t want to learn, and then a box marked, “Everything Else”. During my conversion process, that “Everything Else” box grew bigger and bigger as I slowly acquainted myself with this strange new religion […]
Rejoice Boat Party: Evangelization over water!
“Rejoice in the Lord always, I repeat: rejoice!” That was the verse that inspired Shalom Community’s annual Boat Party in London. The event is a way to offer an opportunity for people to experience a party where human values, virtues, friendhsip and Christian joy can be celebrated. The party takes place on River Thames and […]
How to Save Catholic Schools
It’s commencement season and tens of thousands of students are graduating from inner-city Catholic elementary schools. As decades of empirical research have shown, these kids have a better chance of successfully completing high school and college, and are better prepared to life-after-the-classroom, than their peers attending government schools. These inner-city Catholic schools are “public schools” […]
Editing our own genes?
Several serious diseases are known to occur because of defects or mutations in our DNA. Curing such diseases could, in principle, be carried out by rewriting the DNA to fix the mutated base pairs. Yet, until recently scientists have remained largely stymied in their attempts to directly modify genes in a living animal. Findings described […]
Fasting is an exercise
There are three things, my brethren, by which faith stands firm, devotion remains constant, and virtue endures. They are prayer, fasting and mercy. Prayer knocks at the door, fasting obtains, mercy receives. Prayer, mercy and fasting: these three are one, and they give life to each other. (Saint Peter Chrysologus) The penitential days and times […]