Although the Christians understand, in general, that life goes on and death does not exist in they way many people think, the loss of a beloved relative continues to be one of the most difficult moments in people’s lives, the central theme of this week editorial, entitled “Death under the Spiritist perspective”. 

Amongst the headlines in this edition, we call the reader’s attention to the interview that the confrere Maurício Cordeiro Mancini, professor of the Rural Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, conceded to our collaborator and editor Orson Peter Carrara, in which he talks about his experience with young people, in and out of the Spiritist Movement.  

Another headline is the especial by José Passini, entitled “Tolerance”, in which the well-known confrere, member of the Editorial Council of this magazine, recalls that, according to Kardec, it is an irresponsibility to publish everything that is received from the Spiritual world without a detailed analysis. 

From 13th to 15th March, one more State Spiritist Conference has took place in Pinhais (PR), promoted by the Spiritist Federation of Paraná state, which counted on the participation of Cosme Massi, Sandra Borba, Alberto Almeida, Raul Teixeira and Divaldo Franco, as shown in the especial report by Claudia Rojas, our correspondent in Curitiba. 

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In the German city of Winnenden, more precisely at Albertville-Realschule school, a young boy got inside the building and shot at haphazard, abbreviating the life of many people, as Claudia Werdine tells in the article “And the story repeats itself...”, which is worth reading so the we can be conscious that something is wrong in many families’ lives and we need to take an initiative in order to prevent that more episodes alike this no longer occurs, be it here, in Europe or in any other place of this planet.