To the ones who associate the word charity to alms or to a simple beneficence, the phrase “Outside charity there is no salvation”, written by Kardec, seems to be inappropriate and even absurd. But charity is not limited to that, as its concept is much more ample and goes beyond of giving something to someone, as shown in this week’s editorial, entitle Charity and its fundamental ingredient.

The subject is the central theme of the interview that the confrere Hugo Gonçalves conceded to our collaborator and editor Marcel Gonçalves, which constitutes one of the headlines in this edition. In the interview, the estimated confrere Hugo, an example of goodness and dedication to the Spiritist Cause, clarifies with notable precision what the word charity means and how we should exercise it.

Another headline in this number is the conclusion of the article in which Jáder Sampaio talks about the Spiritist view regarding the healings and passes in the Jewish-Christian tradition. This first part of the article was published in the last edition.

Last week, an important event congregated Spiritist leaders from different countries in Liège, Belgium, who went there in order to participate of one more ordinary meeting of the International Spiritist Council – ISC, as Claudia Werdine shows in a special report which is another headline in this edition.

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Next Tuesday, 16th June, evokes an important fact in the history of Spiritism. On 16/6/1871, William Crookes gave to the Queen Victoria of England, the report confirming the veracity of the mediumistic phenomena produced by the medium Florence Cook.

With this edition, the study of the Revue Spirite from 1863, published in this magazine over 16 weeks, is concluded and will be followed by the study of the Revue Spirite from 1864.