The international news at the beginning of the year can be divided into the economical crisis that keeps shaking the world and the latest conflict between Israel and Palestine, an endless story which constitutes this issue’s leader, entitled “A conflict that seems to be forever”.

Among the highlights of this issue we stand out the interview our dear confrere José Raul Teixeira delivered to this magazine, answering 26 questions made by José Passini, Ricardo Baesso de Oliveira, Arthur Bernardes de Oliveira, Jorge Hessen, Astolfo O. de Oliveira Filho, Celia Xavier Camargo – all members of the Editorial Council –  and Orson Peter Carrara, Fernanda Borges, Wellington Balbo, Antonio Augusto Nascimento and Katia Fabiana Fernandes, responsible for the interviews of this magazine.

The questions were divided into three blocks: problems and current affairs, Doctrine and topics related to the Spiritist movement. Due to its size, O Consolador has divided the interview into two parts. In the first one, Raul talks about current affairs and Doctrine.

Another highlight of this issue is the Special entitled “Mars is more advanced”, in which the confrere Gerson Simões Monteiro says, based on mediumistic revelations, that Mars inhabitants seem to be more advanced than those of the Earth, differing from what Kardec wrote in the question 188 of The Spirits’ Book.

In a special story, the confrere Renato Costa reports the end-of-the-year party at the Spiritist School Joanna de Angelis, located in Santa Amelia neighborhood, in Japeri, which is, according to the confrere, one of the poorest towns in Rio de Janeiro. The story is also one of the highlights of this issue.

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With this issue we begin the study on the book Liberation, by André Luiz, psychographed by Francisco Cândido Xavier. It’s André Luiz’s sixth book. The previous ones were, as follows: Our Home – issues 1-12; The Messengers – issues 13-24; Missionaries of Light – issues 25-44; Workers of Eternal Life – issues 45-62; and In the Greater World – issues 63-89.