Another disaster, this time
of huge proportions, shocked
the planet last 12th, when a
earthquake in Haiti caused a
massive destruction and
thousands of deaths,
including the one that
abbreviated the corporeal
life of Zilda Arns, as
highlighted in this week’s
editorial, entitled Zilda
Arns, a life dedicated to
others.
One of the highlights in the
present edition is the
interesting interview that a
Spiritism admirer, the
youngster Maria da Conceição
Rocha Cavalcante, rooted in
João Pessoa, capital of the
state of Paraíba, conceded
to our collaborator and
editor Orson Peter Carrara.
In the interview, she talks
about her work of
diagramming for various
spiristist publications and
says how the Spiritist
Doctrine is seen by society
in general nowadays.
It’s also a highlight in
this edition the special
report where the confrere
Jorge Hessen, from
Brasília-DF, analyses the
climate change theme and its
consequences, which is an
up-to-date and very
important subject, given so
many natural disasters that
have affected different
regions across the planet,
especially in the last
years.
Several Esperanto
organizations have been
rewarded in the end of 2009
by the Mansão do Caminho
(Mansion of the Path), from
Salvador (state of Bahia),
and by the City Council of
Niterói, as presented in the
special report published in
this issue, which is also a
highlight this week.
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On January 24th 1887, 123
years ago, the writer Arthur
Conan Doyle, creator of the
detective Sherlock Holmes,
the most famous character of
police tales, started
spiritist sessions with the
medium Ball. Conan Doyle,
who later became a great
divulgator of Spiritism by
offering speeches, is the
author of the book History
of the Spiritualism,
translated under the title História
do Espiritismo in
Brazil.
