Letter to the reader

Year 12 - 578 - July 29, 2018

 
James Douglas da Fonseca is our interviewee


“In all coherence is fundamental” is the title and the theme of our editorial, which brings considerations about criminal abortion and attempts to legalize it in our country.

James Douglas da Fonseca, spirit speaker born in Taquarituba, is graduated in pedagogy and history and he is graphic businessman, teacher and current president of the Spirit Centre Love and Charity in his town. Enthusiastic about spirit study, he tells us about his experiences as scholar and spreader of the spirit doctrine.

In the Especial “Anaesthesia, God and human pain”, Luiz Carlos Formiga from Rio de Janeiro (RJ) remembers the saga and the ideas of the physician Viktor Frankl who kept a clinic of neurology and psychiatry in Vienna when in September 1942, he was prisoned and taken to a concentration field by the Nazis.

Marcel Gonçalves spots on an especial report the history of the Psychiatry Hospital Allan Kardec in Franca (SP), whose origins go back to 1922 when it was founded by José Marques Garcia the Asylum Allan Kardec, the bud of the future respected hospital.


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Last Thursday, July 26th, it was celebrated one more anniversary of the birth of Luis Olímpio Teles de Menezes, founder of the Family Group of Spiritism and the journal “Echo from Beyond”, first spirit journal in Brazil. He was born in 1825, Teles de Menezes disembodied on March 16th, 1893.

 
 

  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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