A chat with Martha Rios Guimarães 

This week’s editorial, "The Spiritist child's education and its importance" examines the Spiritist child's education and its relevance to building a more just and fraternal society.

One of the highlights of this issue is the interview that Orson Peter Carrara had with Martha Rios Guimarães, collaborator and correspondent of our magazine in São Paulo-SP, where she lives. Author of the book “Start at the Very Beginning”, published by The Bugle, Marthinha - as she is better known - speaks in the interview about her book and the importance of the proposal for the education of Spiritist children and youth.

Another highlight of this edition is the special article titled “Spiritist meeting of youth or gathering of youth who say they are Spiritist?” authored by our collaborator Leonardo Marmo Moreira. In the article, he points out that in the past there was significant resistance to the work of the Spiritist youths in several Brazilian Spiritist centers. Has this change?

Founded on January 1st, 1934, the Spiritist Center Nosso Lar, in Londrina-PR, one of the leading Spiritist institutions in northern Paraná, is celebrating 80 years of existence. A report about the center, its history and the work it performs, it is also one of the highlights of this edition.

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Yesterday, January 18, marked another anniversary of the discarnation in 1969 of Ismael Gomes Braga. Born in Ubá-MG on 14/07/1891, Ismael was one of the most important authors and publishers of Esperanto, a language that he learned at the age of 16 while living in Ubá.