Letter to the reader

Year 13 - 632 - August 18, 2019

 
The power of love and its importance in our life


Today’s interviewer is Maria Terezinha Gobbi Primo, she was born in São Paulo but lives in Fernandópolis (SP), where it was founded and she is the president of the Spirit Charity Association Shelter to the Afflicted. She proposes to us never to give up in the power of love, and among other themes she talks about her beginning at the spirit movement and about the activities that happen at the institution she works. The interview is one of the highlights of the current edition.

Another spot is the Especial Suicide: is it possible to avoid it?, written by the spirit speaker Marlene Cezar Teixeira Rocha, who lives in Brasília (DF). The article was bestowed in the contest “The Doctrine Explains”, held in 2018 where it happened the Course of Spirit Speakers of Distrito Federal, at the Spirit Federation of Distrito Federal (FEDF). According to the speaker, the numbers of suicide in Brazil and abroad call our attention to the importance to treat the theme suicide and its causes.

It occurred the 4ª Cultural Spirit Week promoted by the Spirit Centre Our Home in Londrina (PR) from July 20 to July 28, the theme was “85 years of light”, a tribute done to the Spirit House due to its anniversary of 85 years of existence. Known speakers from many places of the country were in the event, at its closure the writer José Carlos de Lucca was present. Paola Asturiano Martins tells us how it was in an especial report.

 

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On August 10th, the Sunday edition was already posted online when it arrived the result of the General Meeting which has changed the wording of the 1st article of the Statute of the Brazilian Spirit Federation. It was withdrawn from the FEB Statute the reference to Roustaing's work. The reader can see more about this historical decision in Cartas (Letters) and Movimento Espírita Brasileiro(Brazilian Spirit Movement) secction, in the topic regarding to the Federal District.
  

  Astolfo O. de Oliveira Filho
Director of Writing
   

José Carlos Munhoz Pinto
Administrative Director

 

Translation:
Francine Prado
francine.cassia@hotmail.com

 

 

 
 

     
     

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