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Archbishop Rino Fisichella visited a drug abuse rehabilitation center managed by Shalom Community
Archbishop Rino Fisichella, president of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of New Evangelization visited “Volta Israel” Project accompanied by the founder of Shalom Catholic Community, Moyses Azevedo, and Father Silvio Scopel, the missionary in charge of the mission of Fortaleza, Brazil. Volta Israel Project works with drug abuse rehabilitation process through evangelism, prevention and treatment of addiction. Madalena Aguiar, missionary and responsible for Human Promotion in the mission of Fortaleza, presented the project to His Grace Rino Fisichella and told him about her experience to be testimony of many transformed lives that passed through this place. Soon after, two young people gave their testimonies of addiction rehabilitation. After the testimonies, His Grace Rino Fisichella shared his joy of visiting Shalom Community ...

Finding in Jesus one’s own dignity: Shalom Mission in Madagascar
Compassion, culinary, sports and evangelization Antsiranana is located at north end of the island of Madagascar, 24 hours’s drive from the country’s capital, a port city of a population of almost 300,000 people. Since August 2007, the Shalom Community’s mission has been quietly growing there. The missionaries seek to give an answer to the Church, which is constantly in need for laborers to its harvest, through the so called “first announcement” of the Gospel in a semi-urbane context. Situated in a beautiful bay and surrounded by a rich natural park, Antsiranana paradoxically faces many challenges: prostitution, political instability, poor distribution of wealth, exploitation of natural resources, HIV / AIDS epidemic, malaria, abandonment of children with disabilities, child trafficking and exploitation ...

Novena to Saint Joseph
The Shalom Catholic Community invites you to pray the Novena to Saint Joseph. It can be said at any time of the year, specially on the days surrounding St Joseph’s Feast which is held on the 19th of March. Saint Joseph is a dear saint to our beloved Pope Francis and to many Catholics around the world. In Shalom Community, so many graces have been received through the intercession of Jesus’ earthly father. His intercession is well known as a powerful instrument of God’s Divine Providence in the lives of many, most of all in providing for the homes and families as he did to the Holy Family of Nazareth. If you wish to be a witness of his intercession, join us as we will start the ...

Shalom Carnival Retreat in Bolivia: a 180 ° turn around
It was at an altitude of 416 meters, 20km from the most important and populous city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, from February 25 to 28, the 180 Degree Retreat (180 °) was held, organized by the mission of Shalom Catholic Community whom is in the city since two years, with 4 missionaries from the Community of Life and one from Covenant one. The 180 Grades event brought together about 80 young Bolivians and 35 volunteers in a retreat house, where for three days they participated into an intense program. In the morning – in a format of camp – the event counted on lectures, praise, adoration, dynamics and games. In the afternoon, the participants did the Seminar in ...

Shalom Carnival Retreat: Since I made this experience my life changed!
Hello, my name is Larissa Moura, missionary of Shalom Covenant Community in the city of Natal, Brazil. My first experience with the Effusion of the Holy Spirit was during a Shalom Community retreat in the Carnival period of 2012. At that time I lived one of the best phases of my life because I had always dreamed of living in a capital city, studying journalism and living alone. And I was living exactly as I had dreamed. At 19, I felt I was happy to have conquered all this but there was an emptiness within me that I could not understand or fill. During this time I met two girls who lived near my house and invited me to visit ...

Swiss Bishop offers 9 marriage sanctity rules based on Pope’s Amoris Laetitia
The Holiness of the Marriage Bond – A word on the post-synodal apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia (Chur, Switzerland) Dear brothers in the priestly ministry, In the discussion around the post-synodal apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia, the eighth chapter centers on the question of divorced-and-civilly-remarried persons. For this reason I give, in my responsibility as bishop, some advice on this to pastors (confessors). I would like to express the following: The Holy Father says in the introduction to Amoris Laetitia “that not all discussions of doctrinal, moral or pastoral issues need to be settled by interventions of the magisterium” (AL 3). This statement helps us recognize the level of authority of post-synodal apostolic exhortations. “If we consider the immense variety of concrete ...

Through Christ, God was reconciling the world
Every year Graymoor Ecumenical & Interreligious Institute (GEII) promotes Christian Unity by gathering Christians from many groups that are willing to engage in an interreligious dialogue. The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity in 2017 took place from January 18th to the 25th, and the theme was “Reconciliation – The Love of Christ Compels Us” (2 Corinthians 5:14-20). The theme was intended to reflect on the main concern of the churches marked by Martin Luther’s Reformation and to recognize the pain of subsequent deep divisions which afflicted the Church. The meeting, therefore, was an opportunity to take steps towards reconciliation, which is a gift from God given for all of  creation. The Shalom Catholic Community was invited by Natalia Pelicano ...

Pope Francis to the laity: go out and evangelize, or buy mothballs
When asked in a new interview what specific mission he has for the laity, Pope Francis responded with a frequent appeal: to go outside of oneself and take risks in evangelizing, rather than staying stuffed up at home while the moths move in. “Sometimes I think the best business we can do with many Christians, is to sell them mothballs so that they put them in their clothes and in their lives and aren’t eaten by moths,” the Pope said in the interview, published Sunday. The interviewer, journalist Noel Díaz, had questioned the Pope about a comment he had made to him on a previous occasion to “tell the laity to come out of the caves.” When asked about the ...

My missionary Life in Cape Verde
It was the 8 th October 2008, the first time I heard His Voice calling me : only after much fighting, resisting, and trying to run away, I surrendered and heeded His call. I started a great adventure to follow Christ wherever He would go, with courage, renunciation, and disposition, to announce Him to the world by my life. And today I am today in Africa, in this way of joy and of exigencies which is missionary life. With four other missionaries, we live in Cape Verde, in the city of Praia, on the island of Santiago, where everyday I get to know and love more the people, the culture and the cape verdean language. Women are strong and carry ...

Week of prayer for Christian Unity – Reconciliation
WEEK OF PRAYER FOR CHRISTIAN UNITY JANUARY 18–25, 2017 Reconciliation – The Love of Christ Compels Us (2 Corinthians 5:14-20) The 2017 theme for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity has been selected. On the occasion of the 500th anniversary year of the beginnings of the Reformation, the theme: “Reconciliation – The Love of Christ Compels Us” (2 Corinthians 5:14-20) has been chosen. The materials for the 2017 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity has two accents: reflection upon the main concerns of the churches marked by Martin Luther’s Reformation and secondly recognizing the pain of the subsequent deep divisions which afflicted the unity of the Church. In selecting this theme, it is viewed as an opportunity to take ...
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