The tragedy of Rio de Janeiro calls out for our support  

The tragedy in the Fluminence hills is the title of the Editorial of the week. It tells us about yet another sad episode in the State of Rio de Janeiro- Brazil and also calls our attention, in order to be united and make efforts to help minimize the suffering of those families affected by it. 

Among the highlights of the week, we would like to draw your attention to the interview taken by Orson Peter Carrara with fellow spiritist Alexandre Camargo, an immigrant born in Marilia-SP in 1970, who comes from a spiritist family and is graduated in psychology at the Universidade Estadual de Londrina-PR. The interviewee has active participation in the spiritist movement and performs, through the internet, an interesting and innovative work that is worth being known, with the aim being the dissemination of spiritism. 

Another highlight is the Special Edition of authorship, of the fellow spiritist Vinícius Lousada, which is about 150 years since the publication of  The Mediums’ Book. This is a work that integrates the so called Kardequian’s Pentateuch and it continues to be of fundamental importance for those who are working in the mediumship field.   

On 9th January Divaldo Franco visited the Balneário Camboriú-SC, where he coordinated another event of the “Movement Peace and You”. You can read it, written by Paul Salerno, in a feature article in this edition. 

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Also, in this edition, is the last chapter of the classical series  Socialism and Spiritism from Léon Denis studies, which have been presented in this magazine, according to the translation made by Wallace Leal v. Rodrigues, published by O Clarim House publisher. 

Starting next week is the work analyses of “The Pathway to Light, written in 1939 by the spirit Emmanuel, through the mediumship of Francisco Cândido Xavier and first published in 1939 through the Brazilian Spiritist Federation.