A chat with Arnaldo Costeira, president of the Portuguese Spiritist Federation

Accounted for 30% of all cases of cancer and for another 25 different diseases, tobacco has never faced such a big campaign, in which doctors, psychologists and other health professionals are allied to the government in order to combat smoking addiction. This is the subject of this week’s editorial entitled Smoking is not an option, but an addiction.

One of the highlights of the week is the interview conceded by our confrere Arnaldo Costeira, president of the Portuguese Spiritist Federation (FEP) to our colleague Orson Peter Carrara. Arnaldo is also the president of the Associação Social Cultural Espiritualista de Viseu (Social Cultural Spiritualist Association of Viseu) and the director of The Spiritist Newspaper (Jornal Espírita), which is edited by FEP. In this interview he talks about his initiation into Spiritism and speaks about the Spiritist movement in Portugal. 

Another highlight of the week is the special from Washington Luiz N. Fernandes, from Sao Paulo (SP), which focus another aspect of the psychographic work of Divaldo Franco. The article has been split in two parts. The final part will be published next week. 

Last Sunday, 20th June, it was held in Nieuw-Vennep, Netherlands, the II Dutch Fraternal Meeting , as shown in the special report by Claudia Werdine, which is also one of the highlights of this edition.
 

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