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Editorial Warnings and Spiritual advice Several warnings and advice in relation to the International Spiritist Movement have been received through different mediums. In general, Spiritual Mentors make comments on the difficulties in many of the Northern hemisphere countries related to the ‘not very fertile ground’ to welcome and nourish the seeds of light of Christian Spiritism: [...] ‘Most of reincarnated souls in those places still carry in their hearts strong psychic connections with Europe's ancient religions, usually taking pleasure in a inner and purely formal worship’. * For the people in many different countries, ‘those Spirits will need to suffer before awakening to the true life.’ However, at Spiritist groups in many countries, there is already a ‘demand by locals in need of consolation, acceptance and enlightenment when facing the unavoidable collective and individual trials, which tend to build up over time.’ Spirits incite us to the ‘importance of persistence by the workers [...] as faithful gardeners of the Loving Sower of Light.’ Let us do our part making a daily effort to be instruments of peace, as the Missionary of Assisi used to say, working for unity, harmony and mutual benevolence in the heart of the Spiritist Movement. (*passages from a psychography by the medium R. S. at a meeting in FEB, on 15th April 2013). Antonio Cesar Perri de Carvalho ISC Communications Advisor EDITORIAL STAFF GENERAL SECRETARY Charles Kempf COMMUNICATION ADVISOR Antonio Cesar Perri de Carvalho [email protected] EDITOR Elsa Rossi [email protected] [email protected] www.intercei.com ISC NEWSLETTER no. 48 2nd Quarter 2013 Year 15 Issue 48 INTERNATIONAL SPIRITIST COUNCIL Members Countries of ISC 1. Angola 2. Argentine 3. Australia 4. Austria 5. Belgium 6. Bolivia 7. Brazil 8. Canada 9. Chile 10. Colombia 11. Cuba 12. France 13. Germany 14. Guatemala 15. Holland 16. Honduras 17. Italy 18. Japan 19. Luxembourg 20. Mexico 21. Mozambique 22. New Zealand 23. Norway 24. Panama 25. Paraguay 26. Peru 27. Portugal 28. Republic of Ireland 29. Salvador 30. Spain 31. Sweden 32. Switzerland 33. United Kingdom 34. United States 35. Uruguay 36. Venezuela

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Page 1: INTERNATIONAL SPIRITIST COUNCIL · Divaldo spoke about mediumship, but with an initial approach that studied the characteristics of human beings and their different levels of consciousness

Editorial

Warnings and Spiritual advice

Several warnings and advice in relation to the

International Spiritist Movement have been received through

different mediums

In general Spiritual Mentors make comments on the

difficulties in many of the Northern hemisphere countries

related to the lsquonot very fertile groundrsquo to welcome and nourish

the seeds of light of Christian Spiritism [] lsquoMost of

reincarnated souls in those places still carry in their hearts

strong psychic connections with Europes ancient religions

usually taking pleasure in a inner and purely formal worshiprsquo

For the people in many different countries lsquothose Spirits

will need to suffer before awakening to the true lifersquo However

at Spiritist groups in many countries there is already a

lsquodemand by locals in need of consolation acceptance and

enlightenment when facing the unavoidable collective and

individual trials which tend to build up over timersquo

Spirits incite us to the lsquoimportance of persistence by the

workers [] as faithful gardeners of the Loving Sower of Lightrsquo

Let us do our part making a daily effort to be

instruments of peace as the Missionary of Assisi used to say

working for unity harmony and mutual benevolence in the

heart of the Spiritist Movement

(passages from a psychography by the medium R S at a meeting in FEB

on 15th April 2013)

Antonio Cesar Perri de Carvalho ISC Communications Advisor

EDITORIAL STAFF

GENERAL SECRETARY Charles Kempf

COMMUNICATION ADVISOR

Antonio Cesar Perri de Carvalho acperrigmailcom

EDITOR

Elsa Rossi ceieuropagmailcom interceiinterceicom

wwwinterceicom

I S C N E W S L E T T E R n o 4 8

2 n d Q u a r t e r 2 0 1 3

Year 15

Issue 48

INTERNATIONAL SPIRITIST COUNCIL

Members Countries of ISC

1 Angola 2 Argentine 3 Australia 4 Austria 5 Belgium 6 Bolivia 7 Brazil 8 Canada 9 Chile 10 Colombia 11 Cuba 12 France 13 Germany 14 Guatemala 15 Holland 16 Honduras 17 Italy 18 Japan 19 Luxembourg 20 Mexico 21 Mozambique 22 New Zealand 23 Norway 24 Panama 25 Paraguay 26 Peru 27 Portugal 28 Republic of Ireland 29 Salvador 30 Spain 31 Sweden 32 Switzerland 33 United Kingdom 34 United States 35 Uruguay 36 Venezuela

European Coordination Department

Having a series of Spiritist events happening in different countries focussing on Preparation of Workers in different work areas at Spiritist Centres the International Spiritist Council with the support of the Brazilian Spiritist Federation is organizing centres of two-day seminars on Preparation of Spiritist Worker for increasing the number of Supervisors for the Systematic Study of the Spiritist Doctrine The Systematic Study of the Spiritist Doctrine SSSD The SSSD course in a few European countries is already being offered

The seminars aim at better prepare the Spiritist worker Those interested will be able to choose where the seminars will be held and may directly contact the host country

31st August to 2nd September Portugal vitormoraferiagmailcom 3rd to 7th September Spain salvadorrrgmailcom 13th 15th and 16th September UK until 19th Sept elsarossikardecgmailcom 20th 21st and 22nd September France charleskempflapostenet Meeting of ISC Europe 26th and 27th October 2013 in the city of Stuttgart Germany to

be organized by the host institution SEELE-FAK The Coordinator will soon be sending an invitation letter and the agenda everyone will be invited to contact Mary Gekeler President of the German Spiritist Union

Mary Gekeler marymds-gekelerde

Charles Kempf charleskempflapostenet

ISC NEWSLETTER no 48 2

South American Coordination Department

The South America Coordination Department along with speakers

from the International Spiritist Council will be organising for 22nd and 23rd

June a Seminar and scheduled Activities with the Ecuador Spiritist

movement in the city of Guayaquil The programme for the 2nd South

American Spiritist Congress in September 2013 is increasingly being

consolidated The event will be held in Asuncion Paraguay and is being

organised by the Paraguayan Spiritist Federation The presence of the

Spiritist speaker Divaldo Franco has been confirmed

Fabio Villarraga fabiovillarragagmailcom

North American Coordination Department

In May 2013 the President of the US Spiritist Council visited Montreal and Quebec Canada to give short seminars on training Spiritist workers and leaders The visit was part of a programme established to support the Canadian Spiritist movement as well as other events scheduled for 2013 such as the visit of the Spiritist writer and worker Dr Alirio Cerqueira Filho and Vice-president of the US Spiritist Council Jussara Korngold

The directors of the Canadian Spiritist Council Jose and Sandra Mussi attended as guests the General Annual Meeting of the United States Spiritist Council held on 21st April 2013 in Dallas Texas

Mauriacutecio Cisneros infospiritistus

Central America and the Caribbean Coordination Department Dr Edwin Genaro Bravo coordinator for Central America and the Caribbean is providing

the necessary support for the work to be developed by the new group of Spiritist Studies which started in San Jose Costa Rica

Edwin Bravo ebravo_1hotmailcom

2nd QUARTER 2013 3

7th Spiritist World Congress

Aiming at support ing and collaborating with Cuban Spiritists the International Spiritist Council and the Brazilian Spiritist Federation donated to Cuba a special edition in Spanish of The Gospel according to Spiritism and a container of books published in Spanish by the IDE

On 19th and 20th March 2013 a pre-Congress took place in the Eastern Cost of Cuba with talks and visits to the Manzanillo Bayamo and Sierra Maestra Spiritist institutions having a total of about 1200 participants As part of a local tradition before the start of the Congress a tribute at the Central square was paid to the educator and patriot Jose Marti who was also a supporter of Spiritist ideas

For the actual Congress 2012 people enrolled of whom 1200 were Cubans The following 31 countries stood out with a greater number of participants Brazil - 569 Colombia - 55 United States - 41 Mexico - 18 Uruguay - 16 Panama - 12 England and Portugal - 10

The Lazaro Pena Theatre in the centre of Havana had a full house throughout the event At the opening and at different times representatives of the Cuban Government were present Abel Prieto Jimenez advisor to the President of the Republic Caridad Diego Bello director of the Department of Religious Affairs for the Government and her advisor Eloisa Valdez Miriam Martha Garcia Marino director of associations of the Ministry of Justice At the opening table members of the ISC Executive Committee and representatives of the

participating countries The Spiritist medical doctor Servando Agramonte leader of the Cuban Spiritist Movement and Manuel de la Cruz organisers of the event gave an address The opening prayer was said by the head of the Spiritist Centre of Havana Divaldo Franco gave the opening and closing talks and a tribute was paid to him during the event for his work for peace The following people gave talks with the

central theme being The Spiritual Education and Charity in building a World of Peace - 150 Years of The Gospel according to Spiritism Fabio Villarraga and Jorge Berrio (Colombia) Charles Kempf (France) Victor Mora Feria (Portugal) Eduardo Nanni (Bolivia) Jean-Paul Evrard (Belgium) Jussara Korngold and Vanessa Anseloni (USA) Antonio Cesar Perri de Carvalho Marlene Noble and Roberto Fuina Versiani (Brazil) Elsa Rossi (UK) Cyrus Labrada Servando Agramonte Raul Hernandez Espinosa Manuel de la Cruz and Rev Juan Ramon de La Paz (Cuba) Jose Velasquez (El Salvador) Maria de La Gracia Ender (Panama) Jorge Zurita Camargo (Mexico) Odette Lettelier (Chile) Jose Vasquez (Venezuela) Salvador Martin (Spain) Edwin Bravo (Guatemala) Eduardo dos Santos and Edimilson Luiz Nogueira (Uruguay) Edgar Machuca (Puerto Rico) and Gustavo Martinez (Argentina) Many artistic and cultural presentations took place At the end it was announced that the videos on the Congress will be available on a new website within 40 days (wwwcubaespiritaorg) A video was presented by the Portuguese Spiritist Federation inviting people to attend the 8th World Spiritist Congress which is scheduled for 2016 in Lisbon The closing prayer of the Congress was said by the President of Brazilian Spiritist Federation During the event the bust of Allan Kardec located in a public square in Havana was visited

Granma the official newspaper of Cuba government published in its issue of 23rd March news about the Congress of ISC

There are 574 registered Spiritist societies in Cuba

Information www7cemorg wwwfebnetorgbr wwwcubaespiritaorg

THE GERMAN SPIRITIST UNION

The so much anticipated seminar On the way to the Light with Haroldo Dutra Dias in Stuttgart at the headquarters GSU and SEELE Group was a success

Harold moved the more than 60 participants with his charisma and eloquence of knowledge Travelling on to Berlin he gave the same seminar to a larger audience

On 8th May 2013 Divaldo Franco started a new itinerary for his tour of dissemination of Spiritism in Europe The first city to welcome him was the beautiful Munich in the south of Germany Divaldo spoke about mediumship but with an initial approach that studied the characteristics of human beings and their different levels of consciousness Travelling to Stuttgart on 9th May 2013 Divaldo Franco gave a talk on the theme The Psychology of Gratitude at the Deutsche Vereinigung Spiritistiche (German Spiritist Union) to fully packed hall

On 10th May 2013 in Frankfurt he gave a talk with the theme Life in the Spiritual World and travelled to Bonn on 11th amp 12th May to coordinate a Spiritual Retreat Two hundred people attended the event listening to the theme Dawn of a new Era

Divaldo travelled to Bremen on 13th May and Mannheim on 15th May We know that wherever he goes he leaves a lesson of love and brotherhood

We would like to let you know that due to force majeure the Spiritist Educators for Children and Youth Training Course scheduled to be held on 15th amp 16th June 2013 in Stuttgart Germany has been moved to 15th amp 16th February 2014

Information wwwspiritismus-dsvde

kontaktspiritismus-dsvde

GERMANY

SPIRITIST SOCIETY ALLAN KARDEC OF ANGOLA

seakaangolagmailcom wwwseakaorg

ANGOLA

ARGENTINE SPIRITIST FEDERATION

Fraternal Gathering - 14th April 2013 Intersocietaria Espiacuterita (Spiritist Intersociety)

Lonquimay Santa Rosa (La Pampa)

On Sunday 14th April 203 a meeting of representatives of the Argentine Spiritist Federation and Intersocietaria Espiacuterita (Spiritist Intersociety) took place These organizations are made up by the following institutions Luz de la Pampa (Light of the Pampas) La Esperanza de Povernir (The Hope for the Future) Fundacioacuten de Estudio y Difusioacuten Espiacuterita (Foundation for the Spiritist Study and Dissemination) the last three of them being in the city of Santa Rosa Caridad Cristiana (Christian Charity) in Lonquimay Amor Fraternal (Fraternal Love) in the city of Carlos Tejedor and Saacuteenz Cortez in the city of Pehuajo

Their activities include Leaders meeting at the Christian Charity Spiritist Society Mr Gustavo Martinez the ASF chairman spoke on the theme Times have come in which he explained the Program of support to Spiritist Institutions for them to carry out their basic activities approved by the Federal Council of ASF as part of the 2012 - 2014 Action Plan which includes the creation of seven departments of work

Coordinator of Spiritual Assistance Department of the ASF and a member of the Spiritist Medical Association of Argentina Dr Daniel Gomes Montanelli spoke about the actual activities that a Spiritist centre can develop to care for people who seek support insight into and guidance on their spiritual and moral problems

In the afternoon we went to La Esperanza de Povernir Spiritist Centre in Santa Rosa where members of the Luz de la Pampa Spiritist Centre FEDE and Hacia la Fraternidad (On the way to Fraternity) Spiritist Centre were waiting for us

The meeting La Esperanza de Povernir in Santa Rosa Luz de la Pampa FEDE and Hacia la Fraternidad Welcome by Prof Mabel Rivas President of the host centre Conference by the Bachelor Daniel Gomes Montanelli on Thought and Health

Mr Eduardo de Elorriaga representing the Intersocietaria Espiacuterita said words of gratitude and handed to the representatives of the ASF a beautiful piece of engraved crystal as a memento of the meeting

Gustavo N Martinez ceaespiritistagmailcom wwwconfespirargcomar

ARGENTINA

ISC NEWSLETTER no 48 4

ASOCIACIOgraveN CIVIL DE PROYECCIOgraveN MORAL

infohondurasespiritaorg wwwhondurasespiritaorg

HONDURAS

BOLIVIAN SPIRITIST FEDERATION

Arrangements in progress for the BSF to take part in the 14th International Book Fair of Santa Cruz de la Sierra from 29th May to 9th June with the massive presence of publishers booksellers exhibitors writers and the general public The Spiritist works are being exhibited with much love and care by the team of volunteers from Spiritist centres of Santa Cruz and leaders of the BSF eduardonannicotascombo wwwfebolorg

BOLIVIA

BRAZILIAN SPIRITIST FEDERATION

FEB local actions

With meetings of the Central region (Palmas) in May and the North region (Porto Velho) in June the cycle of local meetings of the National Federative Council of FEB have been completed This has already been completed in the Northeast region in Jaboatao dos Guararapes Recife and in the South region in Embu das Artes Sao Paulo The meeting in the south area was attended by the Uruguayan Spiritist Federation with a team of eight participants and by the former FEB President Nestor Joao Masotti who received tributes from the current Presidents of FEB and USE-SP Subjects discussed included adjustments to the areas of work arrangements for the 4th Brazilian Spiritist Congress in 2014 arrangements for the joint meeting of Regional Committees of the National Federative Council of FEB in 2014 implementation of the Work Plan for the Brazilian Spiritist Movement (2013 to 2017) There were meetings held for the departments of Spiritual Assistance Mediumship Childhood and Youth Spiritist Social and Promotion Assistance Social Communication and Systematic Study of Spiritism At the end a seminar on Management of Federations had been developed attended by all groups and coordinated by the workers of the National Federative Council of FEB

Information cfnfebnetorgbr

FEB takes over the Spiritist Museum On the Spiritist Book day 18th April the Spiritist

Museum of Satildeo Paulo in the borough of Lapa was transferred to the Brazilian Spiritist Federation The

c e r e m o n y w a s attended by FEB President Antonio Cesar Perri de C a r v a l h o a n d directors Celia Maria Rey de Carvalho Joao Pinto Rabelo

and Niraldo Pulcineli the founders of the museum namely Paulo Machado and Elza Malzzonetto Machado the former FEB President Nestor Joao Masotti and his wife Maria Euny several collaborators of ICESP leaders and President of USE-SP Julia Nezu de Oliveira and journalists from the Spiritist press Mrs Elza M Machado the FEB President and the new coordinator of the Vieira de Melo Ocean Museum gave an address The

BRAZIL

ALLAN KARDEC - VAK Viena

Further information vakardecmsncom

Please visit us also on Facebook VAK-Wien vakardecmsncom wwwspiritismusat

AUSTRIA

2nd QUARTER 2013 5

Belgium Spiritist Union

Symposium 2013 - Organized by the Belgium Spiritist Union

25th amp 26th May 2013

Theme The importance of children in the world of

tomorrow

Venue Weacutegimont Castle 4630 Soumagne (20km away

from Liege)

Full programme on

httpwwwspiritebeimagesaffichesprog-sympopdf usbspiritebe wwwspiritebe

BELGIUM

Museum in due course will undergo some rearrangements and carry on its normal activities thereafter Information diretoriafebnetorgbr

Book Exhibition at the House of Representatives (Cacircmara dos Deputados)

The Spiritist Book for a new World was the title of the exhibition which took place from 15th to 30th April at the House of Representatives It was an initiative by the Member of the House of Representatives Marco A Ubiali with production by the Brazilian Spiritist Federation The inauguration was attended by the President of the FEB the Vice-President and a few members of the House of Representatives The major works by the FEB Publisher of Allan Kardec and Chico Xavier which are landmarks of Spiritism also historic articles and materials such as Chicos birth certificate as well as videos depicting the works and personalities of Spiritist were on display

Information diretoriafebnetorgbr

Releases and reprinting of books by FEB FEB Publisher has re-published and released dozens of books In May The new Testament translated by Haroldo Dutra Dias was released with the texts by the four Evangelists and Acts of the Apostles About the book at FEB Portal Nowadays the works of FEB Publisher with updated layout and

covers which the readers like are be ing w ide l y distributed At the same time book production and distribution are being modernized to better cater for the needs of the

modern world At international level FEB has always published a number of books in Esperanto and some in French In recent years it has licensed the translation of several titles to Editoras Mensaje Fraternal (Fraternal Message Publisher) in Venezuela to IDE Editora and EDICEI This assured a wide propagation of Spiritism in Spanish and enabled the International Spiritist Council to have publications available in over a dozen languages Information wwwfergsorgbr wwwfebnetorgbr httpwwwfebnetorgbrblogtopicogeralcolunistascesar-perri

CANADIAN SPIRITIST COUNCIL

secretarycanadianspiritistcouncilcom wwwcanadianspiritistcouncilcom

CANADA

THE COLOMBIAN SPIRITIST

FEDERATION

Regional Meetings

The Colombian Spiritist movement legally supported by national constitution is holding Regional Meetings complying with the law for the

election of its Council of Directors particularly the nine affiliated Federations and their respective Spiritist centres

Annual General Meeting of the Colombian Spiritist Federation (CONFECOL)

On 10th May CONFECOL the entity that governs Spiritism in our country elected its new National Federative Council The members elected for the period 2013 to 2016 were as follows President Mr Jorge Ramoacuten Berrio Bustillo General Secretary Mr Luis Fernando Vargas Lozano Managing amp Finance Director Mr German T Espinosa Finance Supervisor Mr Emiro Navarro Deputy Finance Supervisor Mr Francisco Ariza Inspector Mr Jorge Francisco Leoacuten

Deputy Inspector Axel Rhenals Turriago The target for this period is to continue the 3rd

phase of Unification

Gathering for National Unification

On 12th May all federations of the country have been called to Bogota to carry out the last arrangements in the departments of Social Assistance and Promotion

and that of Family Childhood and Youth These are topics worked on in parallel at the Senderos da la Esperanza (Workers of Hope) and Tercera Revelacioacuten (Third Revelation) Spiritist Institutions

wwwconfecolorg secretariogeneralconfecolorg

COLOMBIA

ISC NEWSLETTER no 48 6

UNIVERSAL LOVE AND CHARITY

SOCIETY

The website wwwcubaespiritaorg has an event summary of the whole 7th World Spiritist Congress and all activities at Spiritist Centres in Cuba This will be the official website of Cuban Spiritists Received by Manuel de la Cruz lacruzmannyaolcom

CUBA

SPIRITIST STUDY CENTRE BUENA NUEVA

Besides their weekly activities the CEEBN participated in the 7th World Spiritist Congress held in Cuba

The Annual General Meeting for the election of the new board of directors for 2013 and 2014 was held in March

A Seminar and other Spiritist activities in August will be held by Dr Andrei Moreira from Brazil Odete Letelier espiritismoespiritismocl wwwespiritismocl

CHILE

SPANISH SPIRITIST FEDERATION

The issue 5 of the Spiritist Magazine of the Spanish Spiritist Federation has just been released It is covers the propagation of Spiritist culture and is

SPAIN

UNITED STATES SPIRITIST COUNCIL

On 20th April 2013 the 7th US Spiritist Symposium was held in the city of Dallas Texas The event takes place once a year and is supported and attended by the National Spiritist movement Each year on Sunday following the Symposium which takes place on Saturday the Annual General Meeting of the US Spiritist Council (USSC) is held and attended by the leaders of Spiritist Groups from various parts of the country

This year the Symposium started with an opening ceremony that included all board members of the USSC going onto stage and paying a tribute to the United States as a nation which guarantees complete freedom of religious expression to its citizens unlike what is happening in many other countries At the opening the USSC President also

UNITED STATES

SPIRITIST FEDERATION OF EL SALVADOR

8 Spiritist centres affiliated to the SFS Ciacuterculo de Investigaciones Psicofiacutesicas Sociedad Siacutequico Filosoacutefico Espiritual El Mesiacuteas La Verdad es para Todos Spiritist Centre Faro del Saber Spiritist Centre Virgilio Manzanares Pentildea Spiritist Centre Sociedad de Mediums Spiritist Centre Juan Diego de Guadalupe Spiritist Centre El Buen Amigo Spiritist Centre

Rosa Amelia Campos

federacionelsalvadorespiritaorg

EL SALVADOR

called for a minute of silence for all the victims affected by the terrorist event in Boston and by the disaster which happened at a chemical plant in Texas lsquoWe are extremely blessed to being able to live in a country like

the United States of Americarsquo said USSC President Mauricio Cisneros The event continued with lectures in one hall and short training seminars for Spiritist workers in another The event was closed by a representative of the Spiritist movement of Illinois when he made an invitation to the next Symposium of 2014 in Chicago Further details are available at

wwwspiritistsymposiumorg wwwspiritistus infospiritistus

2nd QUARTER 2013 7

positive feedback from lay readers and also resulted in the creation of many websites about Chico Xavier in the Spiritualist environment

The FSC continues to collaborate with the publishing of the Revue Spirite (Spiritist Magazine) in French which has been distributed at the 7th World Spiritist Congress and the ISC Annual General Meeting in Havana

The first Spiritist book for children in French has been published by Librairie Spirite Francophone in Quebec It is the result of a wide co-operation at Francophone level with the Committee for Moral Education of the Coordination Department of Europe with illustrations by Claudia Milena Werdine Alborghetti and translated by Marcia Kempf The book can be purchased at Amazon

On 9th March 2013 a local meeting of Southeast groups took place in Arles and on 28th April 2013 an E a s t e r n F r a n c e gathering took place in Hielle with a seminar on Healing run by Rosenite Alves On 30th March 2013 a seminar in Brittany run by Alirio Cerqueira Filho on mental energy

and self-healing took place On 25th amp 26th May the annual Symposium took place at the Wegimont Castle in Belgium On 8th and 9th June a local Southeast meeting will take place in Denice and on 22nd and 23rd June a local Northern meeting will be held in Lievain

Further information wwwspiritismeorg

the official publication of the Spanish Spiritist Federation and has an article dedicated to the History of Spiritism in the world

Themes developed in this issue include from precursors such as Swendborg Jackson Davis and the Fox sisters and moving on to the Spiritist revelation codified by Allan Kardec the Society of Spiritist Studies of Paris and the Revue Spirite (The Spiritist Magazine)It also included articles on the dedicated work of the mediums of the second half of the 19th century Arthur Conan Doyle and an overview of Spiritism as it stands in the world today

It featured the great work of propagation started by the Spiritist Magazine of the Spanish Spiritist Federation through the Propagation Committee with the distribution of the magazine to many universities libraries and cultural centres mainly in Madrid Castilla-La Mancha and Castilla-Leon This magazine focused primarily on the dissemination to non-Spiritist individuals trying to reclaim the space that Spiritist proposes to better understand and face the difficulties people encounter in this world of trials and regeneration

Also the speaker Haroldo Dutra a Judge from the state of Minas Gerais made a tour of Madrid Valencia and Alicante from 15th to 17th May 2013 giving talks and holding meetings

Healing through Forgiveness and The new Era were some of the themes spoken during his tour through several European countries to promote Spiritism

infoespiritismocc wwwespiritismocc

FRENCH SPIRITIST COUNCIL

The French Spiritist Council (FSC) was represented at the 7th World Spiritist Congress and Annual General Meeting of the ISC in Havana by Luc Moussu and Charles Kempf They are making the arrangements to launch a new campaign Amar a Vida (Loving Life) promoted by the ISC and carried out by the Portuguese Spiritist Federation The material has been translated into French and will be shown on the cover of next issue of the Voie Spirite (Spiritist Way) newsletter (cover on the left-hand side)

The FSC in co-operation with LMSF keeps promoting books with large stock at EDICEI in Brasilia which are being sold as second hand for 990 Euros This has been bringing not only income to the ISC and the French speaking movement but also greatly increasing the dissemination of the works of Andre Luiz in France It has attracted much

FRANCE

Executive Committee of ISC

General Secretary Charles Kempf (France) 1st Secretary A Cesar Perri de Carvalho (Brazil) 2nd Secretary Elsa Rossi (United Kingdom) 1st Treasurer Roberto Versiani ( Brazil) 2nd Treasurer Jean-Paul Evrard (Belgium) Eduardo Santos (Uruguay) Edwin Bravo (Guatemala) Faacutebio Villarraga (Colombia) Jussara Korngold (USA) Milciades Lezcano ( Paraguay) Vitor Mora Feria ( Portugal) Salvador Martin ( Spain)

ISC NEWSLETTER no 48 8

DUTCH SPIRITIST COUNCIL

Events promoted by the Dutch Spiritist Council

Haroldo Dutra Dias Theme Paul amp Stephen amp the Parables of Jesus

19th May 2013 from 1pm to 6pm Tel 0630 050 947 with Rikeli or

0651 085 180 with Rosana grupoespiritaemanuelhotmailcom

Divaldo Pereira Franco Theme Psychology of Gratitude 22nd May 7 to 9 pm Venue Florence Steenvoorde

Building Generaal Spoorlaan 62 ndash 2285 CH - Rijswijk

Enrolment by e-mail infonrspnl Contact 0645 267 902 with

Maria Moraes

Iris and Claudio Sinoti 1st theme The Psychology of Love 29th May 730 pm to 930 pm Address Hembrugstraat 156 - 2nd floor

1013 XC Amsterdam Enrolment by e-mail infonrspnl Contact 0645 267 902 with Maria Moraes or

0644 357 538 with Nilson 2nd theme Reflecting the soul the Spiritist

Psychology of Joanna de Angelis 30th May 8pm to 10pm Venue Stichting Muzenis

Cliffordstraat 38 1051 GV Amsterdam

Enrolment svjangelisgmailcom Contact 0615 091 659 with Dalva

12th National Spiritist Meeting Speakers Charles Kempf Claudia Werdine and

Milena Alborghetti Theme Happiness from a Spiritist viewpoint Date Sunday 25th August 2013 Address Hembrugstraat 156 - 2nd floor 1013 XC Amsterdam Contact Maria Moraes - nrspiritismeyahoocombr

amp infonrspnl

4th Congress on Medicine amp Spirituality Date Saturday 12th October 2013 Venue Florence Steenvoorde Building Address Generaal Spoorlaan 62 2285 CH - Rijswijk Contact Maria Moraes - infonrspnl

nrspevenementengmailcom Full information available soon For further information please visit the Dutch Spiritist Council website at wwwnrspnl Maria Moraesinfonrspnl

HOLLAND

Excellent quality and quantity of Spiritist Courses and Conferences available on the

website of TV CEI Have you already visited it

wwwtvceicom

THE FRANCISCAN SPIRITIST CENTRE

infojoanadecusaorgau wwwjoanadecusaorgau For further information please see page 17

AUSTRALIA

CADENA HELIOSOPHICA GUATEMALTECA

A quarterly talk by the Cadeia Heliosophica Guatemalteca (Guatemalan Philosophical Study Network) took place on 27th April 203 in Joya Cuilco Huehuetenango district in Guatemala propagating the teachings of the codification of Allan Kardec providing

medical care and handing out of free medicines moral education for children and youth and a talk for over 900 brothers and sisters from different villages who arrived by lorry or on foot to listen to the teachings of the Master Jesus The board of directors also met to arrange the next quarterly conference which will take place on 27th July in the village of Ninchim San Marcos with Alipio Gonzalez who will be coming from Venezuela

It has been reported that Spiritist centre of the village of Tuimuca joined the Guatemalan Philosophical Study

Network On the first Sunday of each month the Grupo de Damas Heliosophicas Rogelia Marroquin de Bravo (Group of Ladies of Philosophical Study Network Rogelia Marroquin de Bravo) organizes a breakfast lecture for the benefit of the Charity and Light School at a restaurant in the city centre and on Sunday 5th May Mothers Day had

been successfully celebrated Edwin Bravo wwwguatespiritaorg

GUATEMALA

2nd QUARTER 2013 9

THE PORTUGUESE SPIRITIST

FEDERATION

Spiritist Culture Gathering

The Association of Propagators of Spiritism of Portugal APSP held the 9th Spiritist Culture Gathering on 20th and 21st April 2013 at the municipal hall A Casa da Muacutesica (The Music Hall) in the beautiful town of Obidos again with a full house The overall feeling was that of satisfaction for getting together and exchanging knowledge

Contacts wwwadeportugalorgjornadas

Training for Workers

Saturday 11th May 2013 from 3 to 5 pm at the Portuguese Spiritist Federations headquarters a workshop on accountancy for Spiritist Workers took place

Spiritist Gathering of Algarve

The Spiritist Gathering of Algarve organized by the Nuacutecleo Familiar Espiacuterita do Mentor Amigo (Spiritist Family Centre of the Friend Mentor) took place on Sunday 12th May 2013 at the Eva Hotel in Faro It was a time of glad getting together and exchange of knowledge

Contact 965 053 743 nfe_mentoramigosapopt

Seminar by Iris and Claudio Sinoti

On 19th May the Portuguese Spiritist Federation held at its headquarters a seminar on topics related to psychology addressed in the book Refletindo a Alma (Reflecting the Soul) and others from the psychological works of the Spirit of Joanna de Angelis Iris and Claudio Sinotti who are workers from the Mansatildeo do Caminho (Mansion of the Way) Bahia joined us in the event

Contacts geralfeportuguesapt

Health and Light Project

The 3rd Light and Health Project where topics related to physical mental and spiritual health will be discussed is being organized by the Allan Kardec

PORTUGAL ITALIAN SPIRITIST UNION

The Italian Spiritist Union through its President Regina Piccoli informs that they have all the slides of the Systematic Study of Spiritism volume I and II translated into Italian They are completing the review to draw up a booklet as a complement to the study of the classes Info italiausigmailcom

ITALY

SPIRITIST FRATERNITY GOD LOVE amp CHARITY

Saturday 16th March 2013 - Self-discovery

Seminar - with the active participation of speakers Dr Andrei Moreira from Brazil Prof Jose Angel Velasquez from El Salvador Dr Edwin Bravo and Prof Johana Bravo from Guatemala and Dr Maria de la Gracia Ender from Panama The photos of the seminar are on Fedac Facebook at wwwfedacorgpa We had an audience of 200 people with a great interest by the participants

2 Active participation at the 7th World Spiritist Congress with a Fedac delegation of 15 people among Spiritists and accompanying people

3 We are now facing a temporary difficulty with the moving to new premises The venue we had for 26 years is being sold and we have to vacate the property

We are still looking for a place to move to within our budget

Dr Maria de la Gracia Ender wwwfedacorgpa fedacpanamahotmailcom

PANAMA

PARAGUAY SPIRITIST CENTRE

The 10th Spiritist Week in Paraguay took place and was organised by the Paraguayan Spiritist Federacion

On 13th 14th and 15th September the 2nd South American Spiritist Congress took place in

Asuncion centroespiritaparaguayo_cepariedernetpy

PARAGUAY

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SPIRITIST UNION OF MOZAMBIQUE

The Spiritist Union of Mozambique was integrated to the International Spiritist Council during the Annual General Meeting in Cuba President Elide Carneiro Address Av Alfredo Keil 12 ndash Maputo Mobile +25 8844 613 251 unemomozgmailcom

wwwfacebookcomCEAKMZ

MOZAMBIQUE

MEXICAN SPIRITIST FEDERATION

The Mexican Federation of Spiritist Associations reports the activities below Federacioacuten Espiacuterita de Tamaulipas y las Huastecas (Spiritist Federation of Tamaulipas and the Huastecas) FETH

21st December 2012 talk and presentation of Spiritist poems by Spiritist youngsters in Valles S a n L u i s Potosi at the 1 8 t h anniversary of the Tomasito Herrera Spiritist Centre 21st to 23rd December 2012 talks and f e l l o w s h i p gathering of the Spiritist centres

of Mante Tamaulipas 1st January 2013 meeting of leaders of the FETH groups and fraternal gatherings January and February 2013 the official setup of t h e C o o r d i n a t i o n Department of Spiritist Centres from the Central Nor thwes t W estern Eastern Southeast regions of the country affiliated to the Mexican Federation of

Spiritist Associations local meeting of Spiritist centres in Mante and seminars held with the theme Death Spiritual Colonies Mental Irradiation and Spiritist Healing Celebration of 70th Anniversary de Spiritist Centre Love Light and Truth from Mante Anniversary de Spiritist Centre Love Light and Truth from Mante local report on the 7th International S p i r i t i s t C o n g r e s s participation in the meeting of the International Spiritist Council

MEXICO

meeting to strengthen and unify centres affiliated to the Federation and related institutions in the cities

of Valles Victoria Tampico Mante Pueblo Viejo Veracruz workshops held on Spiritist healing and fraternal assistance in the south of Veracruz and Tlaxcala

19th April interview about Spiritism and mediumship for the Radio Net 1060 AM group from the city of Juarez Chihuahua on 19th April

2013 Setting up of Spiritist Study Groups in Tabasco Quintana Roo Guadalajara and Sonora

Jorge Camargo jorgecamargozuritagmailcom

espiritismoenmexicohotmailcom

wwwespiritismoenmexicoorg

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The meeting of CEICA took place with the presence of Mexico Panama and Honduras

CEYCA coordinator Dr Edwin Bravo

with Divaldo Franco and Patricia Rodriguez from the

Tamaulip Federation

Talk by Jorge Zurita at the

Congress in Cuba

THE SPIRITIST CHRISTIAN COMMUNION FRANCISCO CANDIDO XAVIER

wwwspiritismjp

JAPAN

GEEAK - NORWAY

The GEEAK Oslo continues to develop its

activities at the following address Dronningens gt

23 room 512 City Centre Oslo

Study of The Spirits books on Wednesdays at

6pm

Meimei Group (children and parents) on every

Saturday at 1230pm

Jussara Korngold was in Oslo for the second time

giving a talk at the Oslo Literature Hall on 14th

February 2013 with the theme Boosting your inner

Power

Spiritist Studies in Norway

Euripides Barsanulfo Spiritist Group - Bergen

Study of The Spirits book and the Gospel according

to Spiritism on Sundays from 730 to 9pm -

Information spiritismeibergengmailcom

Chico Xavier Spiritist Group - Trondheim

Meetings Wednesdays from 615 to 715pm

Contact spiritismentrondheimgmailcom

Bernt Torstenson Spiritist Study Group - Oslo

Meetings in Norwegian on Wednesdays from 1 to 2

pm Fredrikkebygget (UiO - Universitetet i Oslo

Blindern - Oslo) next to the Fredrikke Kapell

Contact sssbernttorstensongmailcom

Paul of Tarsus Spiritist Group Stavanger

Virtual meetings on Wednesdays from 730 to 9pm

Contact gepstavangergmailcom

httpspiritismestavangerblogspotno

postgeeaknorgecom

wwwgeeaknorgecom

NORWAY SPIRITIST SOCIETY

OF IRELAND

Andrei Moreira gave a talk in Dublin on 15th May 2013 on the theme Self Love a Healing Path

Divaldo Franco will be again in Dublin with the talk Mediumship Challenges and Blessings

on 11th June 2013 On 23rd May 2013 a talk by Sergio Thiesen Information sbertozzogmailcom

wwwallankardec-irelandorg

REPUBLIC OF IRELAND

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GEEAK- LUXEMBOURG

Allan Kardec Spiritist Group of Luxembourg

You are all invited for a conference by Divaldo Pereira Franco on the theme Psychology of Gratitude Friday 7th June 2013 730pm to 1030pm Centre Socieacutetaire 29 rue de Strasbourg L-2560 - Luxembourg - Gare allankardecluxyahoofr wwwgroupespiriteallankardecluxcom

LUXEMBOURG

SPIRITIST FEDERATION OF PERU

The conference by Luis Hu took place in March

feperu_espiritayahoocom httpperuespiritablogspotcom

PERU

ALLAN KARDEC SPIRITIST GROUP - NZ

infoallankardecorgnz

httpallankardecorgnz

NEW ZEALAND

Study Group and AME GEEAK the Spiritist Medical Doctors Association of Coimbra

Contacts wwwgeeakpt

23rd Spiritist Gathering

of Lisbon

At the CEPC Centro Espiacuterita Perdatildeo e Caridade (Forgiveness and Charity Spiritist Centre) The themes are based on the book by Joanna de Angelis entitled Constelaccedilatildeo Familiar (Family

Constellation) From 10am to 5pm

With the participation of the Lisbon Spiritist Music Group and Choir and the Jogral Espiacuterita de Lisboa (Lisbon Spiritist Minstrel) as well as he participation of the DIJ of CEPC

Contacts wwwceperdaoecaridadept

June 17th CONCESP

The National Gathering of Spiritist Children will take place this year in Lisbon on 1st June From 1030 am to 430 pm at the Pousada da Juventude do Parque das Naccedilotildees with the theme Once upon a time the birds of heaven We look forward to seeing you with a lot of disposition and willingness in participating

Enrolment Forms concesp2013gmailcom

httpdijfeportuguesaptconcesp2013

Spiritist Meeting of Alentejo

On Sunday 2nd June from 10am to 6pm the Spiritist Meeting of Alentejo 2013 will take place at the D Fernando Hotel in Evora with the theme Spiritism in Alentejo

Contacts

cefeevoragmailcom

Cultural Spiritist

Meeting 2013

The Cultural Spiritist Meeting 2013 will be dedicated to the theme of The Portuguese Spiritist Movement and

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will take place on Sunday 30th June from 2pm at its headquarters in Amadora Get to know better the history of the Portuguese Spiritist Movement See you there

Contacts wwwfeportuguesapt

Tel 214 975 754

geralfeportuguesapt

Featured

The Portuguese Spiritist Congress 2013

It will be held in Leiria at the premises of the Spiritist Association of Leiria on 16th amp 17th November under the theme of Mediumship a vision of the future We should point out that the hall has limited capacity so it is recommended that you book your place early

Contacts wwwfeportuguesapt

Please book your place by sending an email to

congressoespiritaportugues2013gmailcom

If you have any queries please dont hesitate to contact us

wwwfeportuguesapt

fepinformafeportuguesapt

focused on the same target which was to touching the soul of every one present in the huge audience awakening in those who were seeking knowledge a new opportunity for a new re-beginning Soon the videos of the talks will be available on Youtube Further information on the BUSS website below Article by Ana Marques

coordinator of Guiding Light Spiritist Society in Canterbury UK Photos Guilherme Almeida Future events in June in UK

Divaldo Franco on 9th June in London 10th June in Glasgow Therezinha Oliveira 23rd June to 30th June Talks in London and Wokingham

All posters and information are available on the BUSS website wwwbussorguk

busseventsgmailcom

BUSS - BRITISH UNION OF SPIRITIST SOCIETIES

2nd British Spiritist Congress Celebrating 30 Years of Spiritism

in the United Kingdom

With the main theme A new Era and the Dawning of a new Humanity the 2nd British Spiritist Congress held on 11th and 12th May 2013 at the main hall of the Quakers Friends House in London and organised by BUSS was a success Participants from 14 different countries were present namely France Norway Denmark Sweden Switzerland Japan Portugal Republic of Ireland Czech Republic Brazil Liechtenstein Germany Australia and Serbia During both Saturday and Sunday a total of 248 people enrolled for the event and were able to enjoy 15 talks offered by 13 speakers Charles Kempf General Secretary of the ISC Harold Dutra Dias Dr Andrei Moreira Speakers present from the UK Janet Duncan President of Allan Kardec Study Group - Centre for Spiritist Teachings London completing 30 years of foundation Guy Lyon Playfair Anne Christine Sinclair Silvia Gibbons Denise Ferrett Maria Gomes Davian Jessamy Elizabeth Freire Stevanin Tania and Tanya Moore

The event was hosted by Christopher Kinghorn There was a musical performance by Diego Carneiro p l a y i n g c e l l o s op r ano Maya Sapone and Martino Scovacricchi playing saxophone

Mark ing 30 years of Spiritism in the UK Janet Duncan founder of the Spiritist Movement in England gave a opening speech about the Pathway

to Enlightenment The event was broadcast worldwide through TVCEI (wwwtvceicom) and the talks were further broadcast by the Fraternity Radio and Good News Radio of

Brazil This great event focused primarily on bringing

together hearts and souls and also stressing the importance of diversity in our lives

13 speakers each one with their own different way of speaking and expressing themselves but

UNITED KINGDOM

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THE SWEDISH SPIRITIST UNION

On 24th and 25th May Divaldo Pereira Franco was once again in Scandinavia This time in Gothenburg Sweden in a gathering with local Spiritist groups This year our companions from Finland also attended the event The eminent propagator of Spiritism gave a public talk in this city which was translated into Swedish and also a Seminar with the Spiritist Groups present

The Paring Vaumlgen till ljuset Spiritist Group and

the Leon Denis Spiritist Study Centre in Stockholm took part by selling Spiritist books and distributing messages at the Harmony Fair in Stockholm on 23rd and 24th last March It has been noticed during the Fair that people had a growing interest on the Spiritist Doctrine and its foundations

At the Vatumannen Bookstore in Stockholm Spiritist books continue to be sold and information leaflets on Spiritism distributed

The Leon Denis Spiritist Study Centre in

Stockholm is completing the study of the book Efter Doumlden (After Death) by Leon Denis which has already been translated into Swedish

Information spiritismensegmailcom

wwwgsfallankardecblogspotcom

wwwspiritismencom

httpspiritistiskaforbundetblogspotcouk

SWEDEN

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accommodation and closer contact with people who normally would only have superficial contact one to each other at major events The Spirit Movement in Switzerland owes much to Mr Jorge Godinho who with his vast experience and great patience has been teaching and providing us with advice From 6th to 9th May we had

the great pleasure of having with us Haroldo Dutra a Spiritist speaker who travelled throughout Switzerland giving different talks and a short seminar With the election of the new board of directors of UCESS on 14th April 2013 Rejane Hostettler is now the director of UCESS and there are also 3 vice-directors Pedro Pereira Nelly Berchtold and Dilma Hambrock Rejane is doing a course on theology in Zurich and making Spiritism known amongst other religious denominations so that a new focus of work is being introduced

Two new Spiritist centres have been founded in this period CEBEM in Zurich (Kuumlsnacht) and GEFA in Bern (Zollikofen) In the Italian Switzerland we will be beginning a program of monthly

events in Italian in May (please see the poster) Most Spiritist centres have received a boost of new friends very knowledgeable in Spiritism joining these centres and are providing their help to the Spiritist movement with great motivation

Divaldo Franco spoke in Switzerland on 20th May 2013 in Zurich at G-19 a Spiritist institution In Winthertur at CEEAK he spoke on the following topic Rebellious Spirits and Peace For the Spiritist Centres in Switzerland please visit the website wwwspiritismech nellyberchtoldhotmailcom

UNION OF SPIRITIST STUDY CENTRES IN SWITZERLAND - UCESS

Members of the 10 Spiritist centres in Switzerland have been meeting regularly since

January 2013 for at least a week-end per month in the rural area of Berne to study the Spiritist doctrine Study a n d p r a c t i c e o f mediumship in the 1st half of the year and the Systematic Study of Spiritism is scheduled for 2nd half of the year This study promotes closer ties of friendship because of the study groups the shared

SWITZERLAND

CIVIL ASSOCIATION SOCRATES

We are working to legalise the Venezuelan Spiritist Federation Jose Vasquez L - ingjvasquezgmailcom

VENEZUELA URUGUAYAN SPIRITIST

FEDERATION - USF Seminar - Spiritual Assistance 60th Anniversary of Spiritist Centre Hacia la Verdad Organised by Spiritist Centre Hacia la Verdad Supported by Spiritist Assistance Department of the USF General Flores 4689 Info about the datehacialaverdadmontevideocom uyfeuruguaygmailcom wwwespiritismouruguaycom

URUGUAY

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SPIRITIST CENTRE LOVE

2 Groups Tallinn and Vosu Please write only in Esperanto Russian or Estonian to Mr August Kilk augustspiritismee

wwwspiritismee

ESTONIA

ALLAN KARDEC SPIRITIST GROUP

Please contact in Esperanto or Hungarian Szabadi Tibor satiborespgmailcom

HUNGARY

SPIRITISM IN FINLAND ALLAN KARDEC TYOumlRYHMAuml In April a talk on the Mediums Books was given in response to the invitation of the Spiritualist event held in Tampere

On 8th and 9th May the Spiritist movement in Finland had an invaluable help by Andrei Moreira on theme Depression from the Spiritist Perspective

The talks were held in Helsinki and Vaumlaumlksy and translated into Finnish We had 120 people who attended the event and apart from the organisers the audience was

100 Finnish It is with great joy that we inform that the Allan Kardec Tyoumlryhmauml ry (Allan Kardec Work Group) received their registration number from the Finnish authorities in May so becoming the first registered Spiritist association in Finland

We are always grateful for each seed of light which is sowed We hope to continue watering our garden of love

Contacts and information infoallankardecfi

infospiritismifi wwwspiritismifi

FINLAND

THE SPIRITIST MOVEMENT IN OTHER COUNTRIES

SPIRITISM IN BELARUS

The President of the Spiritist Group in Minsk (Belarusian Spiritist Group) is Andrei Latsinnik Vice-president Natalia Latsinnik and Spartak Severin is the contact for enquiries from other countries

The group is made up by 15 people From the translation into English or French the ISC newsletter is now also being translated into Russian by Spartak Severin Andrei and Natasha from the Spiritist Group of Minsk Please write only in English French Italian or Russian to spartak-severinyandexby httpbelarusspiritycom

BELARUS

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Spiritism in Ecuador

In June an Executive Committee member of the ISC will be visiting Guayaquil to carry out tasks and Spiritist seminars organised by the South America Coordination Department

wwwespiritismoquitoblogspotcom

ECUADOR

UAE - UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

There are 3 Groups in the UAE The 3rd Meeting of Spiritist Philosophy of the Middle East took place on 23rd and 26th May with the participation of our dear friend Haroldo Dutra In February the Abu Dhabi Group organized the 6th Lecture Cycle for the 3 groups in the United Arab Emirates This time the guest speaker was

Anete Guimaraes httpespacodespertarblogspotcom

Cesar Augustus - GEEAD

contatogeeadgmailcom httpswwwfacebookcomgeeadabudhabi

Ana Elisa Vilhena ndash GECL -

grupoespiritacaminhodeluzgmailcom

ARAB EMIRATES

ALLAN KARDEC GROUP OF PRAGUE

27th May 2013 Prague

Seminar with Divaldo

Franco

Information allankardecseznamcz website in Czech wwwkardeccz

CZECH REPUBLIC

AUSTRALIA

Further information on the Spiritist Movement in some cities in Australia please visit the following website wwwallankardecsydneyorg allankardecsydneygmailcom

POLAND SPIRITISM IN WARSAW

Further information only in Polish on the website wwwspirytyzmpl konradspirytyzmpl wwwrivailpl

INTERNATIONAL SPIRITIST COUNCIL IN ARGENTINE

EDICEI at the 39th International Book Fair of

Buenos Aires

From 23rd April to 13th May 2013 as it always happened since 2009 the International Spiritist Council through Edicei Iberoamerica and under sponsored by the Argentine Spiritist Federation took part as an exhibitor in the 39th International Book Fair of Buenos Aires

50 countries 500 exhibitors took part in it and attracted 1200000 visitors On the stand more than 100 Spiritist books were on display including the basic works of the codification by Allan Kardec and the Spanish edition of the Spiritist Magazine of 1860 by Allan Kardec

After the event a sale of 455 books were registered including works of the following publishers namely Joanna de Angelis 18 de abril and the CEA

GLOBAL CAMPAIGN IN DEFENCE OF LIFE by the International Spiritist Council The artwork has been approved at the meeting in Havana Cuba It is made up of images in posters in different languages Artwork prepared by the team of the Portuguese Spiritist Federation To send the translation please email Helena on 7helenabbgmailcom Soon available in all languages on the ISC website wwwinterceicom

Spiritist Friend Please visit the website of the International Spiritist Council which is often updated httpceispiriteorges httpceispiriteorgpt httpceispiriteorg httpceispiriteorgfr wwwinterceicom

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European Coordination Department

Having a series of Spiritist events happening in different countries focussing on Preparation of Workers in different work areas at Spiritist Centres the International Spiritist Council with the support of the Brazilian Spiritist Federation is organizing centres of two-day seminars on Preparation of Spiritist Worker for increasing the number of Supervisors for the Systematic Study of the Spiritist Doctrine The Systematic Study of the Spiritist Doctrine SSSD The SSSD course in a few European countries is already being offered

The seminars aim at better prepare the Spiritist worker Those interested will be able to choose where the seminars will be held and may directly contact the host country

31st August to 2nd September Portugal vitormoraferiagmailcom 3rd to 7th September Spain salvadorrrgmailcom 13th 15th and 16th September UK until 19th Sept elsarossikardecgmailcom 20th 21st and 22nd September France charleskempflapostenet Meeting of ISC Europe 26th and 27th October 2013 in the city of Stuttgart Germany to

be organized by the host institution SEELE-FAK The Coordinator will soon be sending an invitation letter and the agenda everyone will be invited to contact Mary Gekeler President of the German Spiritist Union

Mary Gekeler marymds-gekelerde

Charles Kempf charleskempflapostenet

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South American Coordination Department

The South America Coordination Department along with speakers

from the International Spiritist Council will be organising for 22nd and 23rd

June a Seminar and scheduled Activities with the Ecuador Spiritist

movement in the city of Guayaquil The programme for the 2nd South

American Spiritist Congress in September 2013 is increasingly being

consolidated The event will be held in Asuncion Paraguay and is being

organised by the Paraguayan Spiritist Federation The presence of the

Spiritist speaker Divaldo Franco has been confirmed

Fabio Villarraga fabiovillarragagmailcom

North American Coordination Department

In May 2013 the President of the US Spiritist Council visited Montreal and Quebec Canada to give short seminars on training Spiritist workers and leaders The visit was part of a programme established to support the Canadian Spiritist movement as well as other events scheduled for 2013 such as the visit of the Spiritist writer and worker Dr Alirio Cerqueira Filho and Vice-president of the US Spiritist Council Jussara Korngold

The directors of the Canadian Spiritist Council Jose and Sandra Mussi attended as guests the General Annual Meeting of the United States Spiritist Council held on 21st April 2013 in Dallas Texas

Mauriacutecio Cisneros infospiritistus

Central America and the Caribbean Coordination Department Dr Edwin Genaro Bravo coordinator for Central America and the Caribbean is providing

the necessary support for the work to be developed by the new group of Spiritist Studies which started in San Jose Costa Rica

Edwin Bravo ebravo_1hotmailcom

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7th Spiritist World Congress

Aiming at support ing and collaborating with Cuban Spiritists the International Spiritist Council and the Brazilian Spiritist Federation donated to Cuba a special edition in Spanish of The Gospel according to Spiritism and a container of books published in Spanish by the IDE

On 19th and 20th March 2013 a pre-Congress took place in the Eastern Cost of Cuba with talks and visits to the Manzanillo Bayamo and Sierra Maestra Spiritist institutions having a total of about 1200 participants As part of a local tradition before the start of the Congress a tribute at the Central square was paid to the educator and patriot Jose Marti who was also a supporter of Spiritist ideas

For the actual Congress 2012 people enrolled of whom 1200 were Cubans The following 31 countries stood out with a greater number of participants Brazil - 569 Colombia - 55 United States - 41 Mexico - 18 Uruguay - 16 Panama - 12 England and Portugal - 10

The Lazaro Pena Theatre in the centre of Havana had a full house throughout the event At the opening and at different times representatives of the Cuban Government were present Abel Prieto Jimenez advisor to the President of the Republic Caridad Diego Bello director of the Department of Religious Affairs for the Government and her advisor Eloisa Valdez Miriam Martha Garcia Marino director of associations of the Ministry of Justice At the opening table members of the ISC Executive Committee and representatives of the

participating countries The Spiritist medical doctor Servando Agramonte leader of the Cuban Spiritist Movement and Manuel de la Cruz organisers of the event gave an address The opening prayer was said by the head of the Spiritist Centre of Havana Divaldo Franco gave the opening and closing talks and a tribute was paid to him during the event for his work for peace The following people gave talks with the

central theme being The Spiritual Education and Charity in building a World of Peace - 150 Years of The Gospel according to Spiritism Fabio Villarraga and Jorge Berrio (Colombia) Charles Kempf (France) Victor Mora Feria (Portugal) Eduardo Nanni (Bolivia) Jean-Paul Evrard (Belgium) Jussara Korngold and Vanessa Anseloni (USA) Antonio Cesar Perri de Carvalho Marlene Noble and Roberto Fuina Versiani (Brazil) Elsa Rossi (UK) Cyrus Labrada Servando Agramonte Raul Hernandez Espinosa Manuel de la Cruz and Rev Juan Ramon de La Paz (Cuba) Jose Velasquez (El Salvador) Maria de La Gracia Ender (Panama) Jorge Zurita Camargo (Mexico) Odette Lettelier (Chile) Jose Vasquez (Venezuela) Salvador Martin (Spain) Edwin Bravo (Guatemala) Eduardo dos Santos and Edimilson Luiz Nogueira (Uruguay) Edgar Machuca (Puerto Rico) and Gustavo Martinez (Argentina) Many artistic and cultural presentations took place At the end it was announced that the videos on the Congress will be available on a new website within 40 days (wwwcubaespiritaorg) A video was presented by the Portuguese Spiritist Federation inviting people to attend the 8th World Spiritist Congress which is scheduled for 2016 in Lisbon The closing prayer of the Congress was said by the President of Brazilian Spiritist Federation During the event the bust of Allan Kardec located in a public square in Havana was visited

Granma the official newspaper of Cuba government published in its issue of 23rd March news about the Congress of ISC

There are 574 registered Spiritist societies in Cuba

Information www7cemorg wwwfebnetorgbr wwwcubaespiritaorg

THE GERMAN SPIRITIST UNION

The so much anticipated seminar On the way to the Light with Haroldo Dutra Dias in Stuttgart at the headquarters GSU and SEELE Group was a success

Harold moved the more than 60 participants with his charisma and eloquence of knowledge Travelling on to Berlin he gave the same seminar to a larger audience

On 8th May 2013 Divaldo Franco started a new itinerary for his tour of dissemination of Spiritism in Europe The first city to welcome him was the beautiful Munich in the south of Germany Divaldo spoke about mediumship but with an initial approach that studied the characteristics of human beings and their different levels of consciousness Travelling to Stuttgart on 9th May 2013 Divaldo Franco gave a talk on the theme The Psychology of Gratitude at the Deutsche Vereinigung Spiritistiche (German Spiritist Union) to fully packed hall

On 10th May 2013 in Frankfurt he gave a talk with the theme Life in the Spiritual World and travelled to Bonn on 11th amp 12th May to coordinate a Spiritual Retreat Two hundred people attended the event listening to the theme Dawn of a new Era

Divaldo travelled to Bremen on 13th May and Mannheim on 15th May We know that wherever he goes he leaves a lesson of love and brotherhood

We would like to let you know that due to force majeure the Spiritist Educators for Children and Youth Training Course scheduled to be held on 15th amp 16th June 2013 in Stuttgart Germany has been moved to 15th amp 16th February 2014

Information wwwspiritismus-dsvde

kontaktspiritismus-dsvde

GERMANY

SPIRITIST SOCIETY ALLAN KARDEC OF ANGOLA

seakaangolagmailcom wwwseakaorg

ANGOLA

ARGENTINE SPIRITIST FEDERATION

Fraternal Gathering - 14th April 2013 Intersocietaria Espiacuterita (Spiritist Intersociety)

Lonquimay Santa Rosa (La Pampa)

On Sunday 14th April 203 a meeting of representatives of the Argentine Spiritist Federation and Intersocietaria Espiacuterita (Spiritist Intersociety) took place These organizations are made up by the following institutions Luz de la Pampa (Light of the Pampas) La Esperanza de Povernir (The Hope for the Future) Fundacioacuten de Estudio y Difusioacuten Espiacuterita (Foundation for the Spiritist Study and Dissemination) the last three of them being in the city of Santa Rosa Caridad Cristiana (Christian Charity) in Lonquimay Amor Fraternal (Fraternal Love) in the city of Carlos Tejedor and Saacuteenz Cortez in the city of Pehuajo

Their activities include Leaders meeting at the Christian Charity Spiritist Society Mr Gustavo Martinez the ASF chairman spoke on the theme Times have come in which he explained the Program of support to Spiritist Institutions for them to carry out their basic activities approved by the Federal Council of ASF as part of the 2012 - 2014 Action Plan which includes the creation of seven departments of work

Coordinator of Spiritual Assistance Department of the ASF and a member of the Spiritist Medical Association of Argentina Dr Daniel Gomes Montanelli spoke about the actual activities that a Spiritist centre can develop to care for people who seek support insight into and guidance on their spiritual and moral problems

In the afternoon we went to La Esperanza de Povernir Spiritist Centre in Santa Rosa where members of the Luz de la Pampa Spiritist Centre FEDE and Hacia la Fraternidad (On the way to Fraternity) Spiritist Centre were waiting for us

The meeting La Esperanza de Povernir in Santa Rosa Luz de la Pampa FEDE and Hacia la Fraternidad Welcome by Prof Mabel Rivas President of the host centre Conference by the Bachelor Daniel Gomes Montanelli on Thought and Health

Mr Eduardo de Elorriaga representing the Intersocietaria Espiacuterita said words of gratitude and handed to the representatives of the ASF a beautiful piece of engraved crystal as a memento of the meeting

Gustavo N Martinez ceaespiritistagmailcom wwwconfespirargcomar

ARGENTINA

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ASOCIACIOgraveN CIVIL DE PROYECCIOgraveN MORAL

infohondurasespiritaorg wwwhondurasespiritaorg

HONDURAS

BOLIVIAN SPIRITIST FEDERATION

Arrangements in progress for the BSF to take part in the 14th International Book Fair of Santa Cruz de la Sierra from 29th May to 9th June with the massive presence of publishers booksellers exhibitors writers and the general public The Spiritist works are being exhibited with much love and care by the team of volunteers from Spiritist centres of Santa Cruz and leaders of the BSF eduardonannicotascombo wwwfebolorg

BOLIVIA

BRAZILIAN SPIRITIST FEDERATION

FEB local actions

With meetings of the Central region (Palmas) in May and the North region (Porto Velho) in June the cycle of local meetings of the National Federative Council of FEB have been completed This has already been completed in the Northeast region in Jaboatao dos Guararapes Recife and in the South region in Embu das Artes Sao Paulo The meeting in the south area was attended by the Uruguayan Spiritist Federation with a team of eight participants and by the former FEB President Nestor Joao Masotti who received tributes from the current Presidents of FEB and USE-SP Subjects discussed included adjustments to the areas of work arrangements for the 4th Brazilian Spiritist Congress in 2014 arrangements for the joint meeting of Regional Committees of the National Federative Council of FEB in 2014 implementation of the Work Plan for the Brazilian Spiritist Movement (2013 to 2017) There were meetings held for the departments of Spiritual Assistance Mediumship Childhood and Youth Spiritist Social and Promotion Assistance Social Communication and Systematic Study of Spiritism At the end a seminar on Management of Federations had been developed attended by all groups and coordinated by the workers of the National Federative Council of FEB

Information cfnfebnetorgbr

FEB takes over the Spiritist Museum On the Spiritist Book day 18th April the Spiritist

Museum of Satildeo Paulo in the borough of Lapa was transferred to the Brazilian Spiritist Federation The

c e r e m o n y w a s attended by FEB President Antonio Cesar Perri de C a r v a l h o a n d directors Celia Maria Rey de Carvalho Joao Pinto Rabelo

and Niraldo Pulcineli the founders of the museum namely Paulo Machado and Elza Malzzonetto Machado the former FEB President Nestor Joao Masotti and his wife Maria Euny several collaborators of ICESP leaders and President of USE-SP Julia Nezu de Oliveira and journalists from the Spiritist press Mrs Elza M Machado the FEB President and the new coordinator of the Vieira de Melo Ocean Museum gave an address The

BRAZIL

ALLAN KARDEC - VAK Viena

Further information vakardecmsncom

Please visit us also on Facebook VAK-Wien vakardecmsncom wwwspiritismusat

AUSTRIA

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Belgium Spiritist Union

Symposium 2013 - Organized by the Belgium Spiritist Union

25th amp 26th May 2013

Theme The importance of children in the world of

tomorrow

Venue Weacutegimont Castle 4630 Soumagne (20km away

from Liege)

Full programme on

httpwwwspiritebeimagesaffichesprog-sympopdf usbspiritebe wwwspiritebe

BELGIUM

Museum in due course will undergo some rearrangements and carry on its normal activities thereafter Information diretoriafebnetorgbr

Book Exhibition at the House of Representatives (Cacircmara dos Deputados)

The Spiritist Book for a new World was the title of the exhibition which took place from 15th to 30th April at the House of Representatives It was an initiative by the Member of the House of Representatives Marco A Ubiali with production by the Brazilian Spiritist Federation The inauguration was attended by the President of the FEB the Vice-President and a few members of the House of Representatives The major works by the FEB Publisher of Allan Kardec and Chico Xavier which are landmarks of Spiritism also historic articles and materials such as Chicos birth certificate as well as videos depicting the works and personalities of Spiritist were on display

Information diretoriafebnetorgbr

Releases and reprinting of books by FEB FEB Publisher has re-published and released dozens of books In May The new Testament translated by Haroldo Dutra Dias was released with the texts by the four Evangelists and Acts of the Apostles About the book at FEB Portal Nowadays the works of FEB Publisher with updated layout and

covers which the readers like are be ing w ide l y distributed At the same time book production and distribution are being modernized to better cater for the needs of the

modern world At international level FEB has always published a number of books in Esperanto and some in French In recent years it has licensed the translation of several titles to Editoras Mensaje Fraternal (Fraternal Message Publisher) in Venezuela to IDE Editora and EDICEI This assured a wide propagation of Spiritism in Spanish and enabled the International Spiritist Council to have publications available in over a dozen languages Information wwwfergsorgbr wwwfebnetorgbr httpwwwfebnetorgbrblogtopicogeralcolunistascesar-perri

CANADIAN SPIRITIST COUNCIL

secretarycanadianspiritistcouncilcom wwwcanadianspiritistcouncilcom

CANADA

THE COLOMBIAN SPIRITIST

FEDERATION

Regional Meetings

The Colombian Spiritist movement legally supported by national constitution is holding Regional Meetings complying with the law for the

election of its Council of Directors particularly the nine affiliated Federations and their respective Spiritist centres

Annual General Meeting of the Colombian Spiritist Federation (CONFECOL)

On 10th May CONFECOL the entity that governs Spiritism in our country elected its new National Federative Council The members elected for the period 2013 to 2016 were as follows President Mr Jorge Ramoacuten Berrio Bustillo General Secretary Mr Luis Fernando Vargas Lozano Managing amp Finance Director Mr German T Espinosa Finance Supervisor Mr Emiro Navarro Deputy Finance Supervisor Mr Francisco Ariza Inspector Mr Jorge Francisco Leoacuten

Deputy Inspector Axel Rhenals Turriago The target for this period is to continue the 3rd

phase of Unification

Gathering for National Unification

On 12th May all federations of the country have been called to Bogota to carry out the last arrangements in the departments of Social Assistance and Promotion

and that of Family Childhood and Youth These are topics worked on in parallel at the Senderos da la Esperanza (Workers of Hope) and Tercera Revelacioacuten (Third Revelation) Spiritist Institutions

wwwconfecolorg secretariogeneralconfecolorg

COLOMBIA

ISC NEWSLETTER no 48 6

UNIVERSAL LOVE AND CHARITY

SOCIETY

The website wwwcubaespiritaorg has an event summary of the whole 7th World Spiritist Congress and all activities at Spiritist Centres in Cuba This will be the official website of Cuban Spiritists Received by Manuel de la Cruz lacruzmannyaolcom

CUBA

SPIRITIST STUDY CENTRE BUENA NUEVA

Besides their weekly activities the CEEBN participated in the 7th World Spiritist Congress held in Cuba

The Annual General Meeting for the election of the new board of directors for 2013 and 2014 was held in March

A Seminar and other Spiritist activities in August will be held by Dr Andrei Moreira from Brazil Odete Letelier espiritismoespiritismocl wwwespiritismocl

CHILE

SPANISH SPIRITIST FEDERATION

The issue 5 of the Spiritist Magazine of the Spanish Spiritist Federation has just been released It is covers the propagation of Spiritist culture and is

SPAIN

UNITED STATES SPIRITIST COUNCIL

On 20th April 2013 the 7th US Spiritist Symposium was held in the city of Dallas Texas The event takes place once a year and is supported and attended by the National Spiritist movement Each year on Sunday following the Symposium which takes place on Saturday the Annual General Meeting of the US Spiritist Council (USSC) is held and attended by the leaders of Spiritist Groups from various parts of the country

This year the Symposium started with an opening ceremony that included all board members of the USSC going onto stage and paying a tribute to the United States as a nation which guarantees complete freedom of religious expression to its citizens unlike what is happening in many other countries At the opening the USSC President also

UNITED STATES

SPIRITIST FEDERATION OF EL SALVADOR

8 Spiritist centres affiliated to the SFS Ciacuterculo de Investigaciones Psicofiacutesicas Sociedad Siacutequico Filosoacutefico Espiritual El Mesiacuteas La Verdad es para Todos Spiritist Centre Faro del Saber Spiritist Centre Virgilio Manzanares Pentildea Spiritist Centre Sociedad de Mediums Spiritist Centre Juan Diego de Guadalupe Spiritist Centre El Buen Amigo Spiritist Centre

Rosa Amelia Campos

federacionelsalvadorespiritaorg

EL SALVADOR

called for a minute of silence for all the victims affected by the terrorist event in Boston and by the disaster which happened at a chemical plant in Texas lsquoWe are extremely blessed to being able to live in a country like

the United States of Americarsquo said USSC President Mauricio Cisneros The event continued with lectures in one hall and short training seminars for Spiritist workers in another The event was closed by a representative of the Spiritist movement of Illinois when he made an invitation to the next Symposium of 2014 in Chicago Further details are available at

wwwspiritistsymposiumorg wwwspiritistus infospiritistus

2nd QUARTER 2013 7

positive feedback from lay readers and also resulted in the creation of many websites about Chico Xavier in the Spiritualist environment

The FSC continues to collaborate with the publishing of the Revue Spirite (Spiritist Magazine) in French which has been distributed at the 7th World Spiritist Congress and the ISC Annual General Meeting in Havana

The first Spiritist book for children in French has been published by Librairie Spirite Francophone in Quebec It is the result of a wide co-operation at Francophone level with the Committee for Moral Education of the Coordination Department of Europe with illustrations by Claudia Milena Werdine Alborghetti and translated by Marcia Kempf The book can be purchased at Amazon

On 9th March 2013 a local meeting of Southeast groups took place in Arles and on 28th April 2013 an E a s t e r n F r a n c e gathering took place in Hielle with a seminar on Healing run by Rosenite Alves On 30th March 2013 a seminar in Brittany run by Alirio Cerqueira Filho on mental energy

and self-healing took place On 25th amp 26th May the annual Symposium took place at the Wegimont Castle in Belgium On 8th and 9th June a local Southeast meeting will take place in Denice and on 22nd and 23rd June a local Northern meeting will be held in Lievain

Further information wwwspiritismeorg

the official publication of the Spanish Spiritist Federation and has an article dedicated to the History of Spiritism in the world

Themes developed in this issue include from precursors such as Swendborg Jackson Davis and the Fox sisters and moving on to the Spiritist revelation codified by Allan Kardec the Society of Spiritist Studies of Paris and the Revue Spirite (The Spiritist Magazine)It also included articles on the dedicated work of the mediums of the second half of the 19th century Arthur Conan Doyle and an overview of Spiritism as it stands in the world today

It featured the great work of propagation started by the Spiritist Magazine of the Spanish Spiritist Federation through the Propagation Committee with the distribution of the magazine to many universities libraries and cultural centres mainly in Madrid Castilla-La Mancha and Castilla-Leon This magazine focused primarily on the dissemination to non-Spiritist individuals trying to reclaim the space that Spiritist proposes to better understand and face the difficulties people encounter in this world of trials and regeneration

Also the speaker Haroldo Dutra a Judge from the state of Minas Gerais made a tour of Madrid Valencia and Alicante from 15th to 17th May 2013 giving talks and holding meetings

Healing through Forgiveness and The new Era were some of the themes spoken during his tour through several European countries to promote Spiritism

infoespiritismocc wwwespiritismocc

FRENCH SPIRITIST COUNCIL

The French Spiritist Council (FSC) was represented at the 7th World Spiritist Congress and Annual General Meeting of the ISC in Havana by Luc Moussu and Charles Kempf They are making the arrangements to launch a new campaign Amar a Vida (Loving Life) promoted by the ISC and carried out by the Portuguese Spiritist Federation The material has been translated into French and will be shown on the cover of next issue of the Voie Spirite (Spiritist Way) newsletter (cover on the left-hand side)

The FSC in co-operation with LMSF keeps promoting books with large stock at EDICEI in Brasilia which are being sold as second hand for 990 Euros This has been bringing not only income to the ISC and the French speaking movement but also greatly increasing the dissemination of the works of Andre Luiz in France It has attracted much

FRANCE

Executive Committee of ISC

General Secretary Charles Kempf (France) 1st Secretary A Cesar Perri de Carvalho (Brazil) 2nd Secretary Elsa Rossi (United Kingdom) 1st Treasurer Roberto Versiani ( Brazil) 2nd Treasurer Jean-Paul Evrard (Belgium) Eduardo Santos (Uruguay) Edwin Bravo (Guatemala) Faacutebio Villarraga (Colombia) Jussara Korngold (USA) Milciades Lezcano ( Paraguay) Vitor Mora Feria ( Portugal) Salvador Martin ( Spain)

ISC NEWSLETTER no 48 8

DUTCH SPIRITIST COUNCIL

Events promoted by the Dutch Spiritist Council

Haroldo Dutra Dias Theme Paul amp Stephen amp the Parables of Jesus

19th May 2013 from 1pm to 6pm Tel 0630 050 947 with Rikeli or

0651 085 180 with Rosana grupoespiritaemanuelhotmailcom

Divaldo Pereira Franco Theme Psychology of Gratitude 22nd May 7 to 9 pm Venue Florence Steenvoorde

Building Generaal Spoorlaan 62 ndash 2285 CH - Rijswijk

Enrolment by e-mail infonrspnl Contact 0645 267 902 with

Maria Moraes

Iris and Claudio Sinoti 1st theme The Psychology of Love 29th May 730 pm to 930 pm Address Hembrugstraat 156 - 2nd floor

1013 XC Amsterdam Enrolment by e-mail infonrspnl Contact 0645 267 902 with Maria Moraes or

0644 357 538 with Nilson 2nd theme Reflecting the soul the Spiritist

Psychology of Joanna de Angelis 30th May 8pm to 10pm Venue Stichting Muzenis

Cliffordstraat 38 1051 GV Amsterdam

Enrolment svjangelisgmailcom Contact 0615 091 659 with Dalva

12th National Spiritist Meeting Speakers Charles Kempf Claudia Werdine and

Milena Alborghetti Theme Happiness from a Spiritist viewpoint Date Sunday 25th August 2013 Address Hembrugstraat 156 - 2nd floor 1013 XC Amsterdam Contact Maria Moraes - nrspiritismeyahoocombr

amp infonrspnl

4th Congress on Medicine amp Spirituality Date Saturday 12th October 2013 Venue Florence Steenvoorde Building Address Generaal Spoorlaan 62 2285 CH - Rijswijk Contact Maria Moraes - infonrspnl

nrspevenementengmailcom Full information available soon For further information please visit the Dutch Spiritist Council website at wwwnrspnl Maria Moraesinfonrspnl

HOLLAND

Excellent quality and quantity of Spiritist Courses and Conferences available on the

website of TV CEI Have you already visited it

wwwtvceicom

THE FRANCISCAN SPIRITIST CENTRE

infojoanadecusaorgau wwwjoanadecusaorgau For further information please see page 17

AUSTRALIA

CADENA HELIOSOPHICA GUATEMALTECA

A quarterly talk by the Cadeia Heliosophica Guatemalteca (Guatemalan Philosophical Study Network) took place on 27th April 203 in Joya Cuilco Huehuetenango district in Guatemala propagating the teachings of the codification of Allan Kardec providing

medical care and handing out of free medicines moral education for children and youth and a talk for over 900 brothers and sisters from different villages who arrived by lorry or on foot to listen to the teachings of the Master Jesus The board of directors also met to arrange the next quarterly conference which will take place on 27th July in the village of Ninchim San Marcos with Alipio Gonzalez who will be coming from Venezuela

It has been reported that Spiritist centre of the village of Tuimuca joined the Guatemalan Philosophical Study

Network On the first Sunday of each month the Grupo de Damas Heliosophicas Rogelia Marroquin de Bravo (Group of Ladies of Philosophical Study Network Rogelia Marroquin de Bravo) organizes a breakfast lecture for the benefit of the Charity and Light School at a restaurant in the city centre and on Sunday 5th May Mothers Day had

been successfully celebrated Edwin Bravo wwwguatespiritaorg

GUATEMALA

2nd QUARTER 2013 9

THE PORTUGUESE SPIRITIST

FEDERATION

Spiritist Culture Gathering

The Association of Propagators of Spiritism of Portugal APSP held the 9th Spiritist Culture Gathering on 20th and 21st April 2013 at the municipal hall A Casa da Muacutesica (The Music Hall) in the beautiful town of Obidos again with a full house The overall feeling was that of satisfaction for getting together and exchanging knowledge

Contacts wwwadeportugalorgjornadas

Training for Workers

Saturday 11th May 2013 from 3 to 5 pm at the Portuguese Spiritist Federations headquarters a workshop on accountancy for Spiritist Workers took place

Spiritist Gathering of Algarve

The Spiritist Gathering of Algarve organized by the Nuacutecleo Familiar Espiacuterita do Mentor Amigo (Spiritist Family Centre of the Friend Mentor) took place on Sunday 12th May 2013 at the Eva Hotel in Faro It was a time of glad getting together and exchange of knowledge

Contact 965 053 743 nfe_mentoramigosapopt

Seminar by Iris and Claudio Sinoti

On 19th May the Portuguese Spiritist Federation held at its headquarters a seminar on topics related to psychology addressed in the book Refletindo a Alma (Reflecting the Soul) and others from the psychological works of the Spirit of Joanna de Angelis Iris and Claudio Sinotti who are workers from the Mansatildeo do Caminho (Mansion of the Way) Bahia joined us in the event

Contacts geralfeportuguesapt

Health and Light Project

The 3rd Light and Health Project where topics related to physical mental and spiritual health will be discussed is being organized by the Allan Kardec

PORTUGAL ITALIAN SPIRITIST UNION

The Italian Spiritist Union through its President Regina Piccoli informs that they have all the slides of the Systematic Study of Spiritism volume I and II translated into Italian They are completing the review to draw up a booklet as a complement to the study of the classes Info italiausigmailcom

ITALY

SPIRITIST FRATERNITY GOD LOVE amp CHARITY

Saturday 16th March 2013 - Self-discovery

Seminar - with the active participation of speakers Dr Andrei Moreira from Brazil Prof Jose Angel Velasquez from El Salvador Dr Edwin Bravo and Prof Johana Bravo from Guatemala and Dr Maria de la Gracia Ender from Panama The photos of the seminar are on Fedac Facebook at wwwfedacorgpa We had an audience of 200 people with a great interest by the participants

2 Active participation at the 7th World Spiritist Congress with a Fedac delegation of 15 people among Spiritists and accompanying people

3 We are now facing a temporary difficulty with the moving to new premises The venue we had for 26 years is being sold and we have to vacate the property

We are still looking for a place to move to within our budget

Dr Maria de la Gracia Ender wwwfedacorgpa fedacpanamahotmailcom

PANAMA

PARAGUAY SPIRITIST CENTRE

The 10th Spiritist Week in Paraguay took place and was organised by the Paraguayan Spiritist Federacion

On 13th 14th and 15th September the 2nd South American Spiritist Congress took place in

Asuncion centroespiritaparaguayo_cepariedernetpy

PARAGUAY

ISC NEWSLETTER no 48 10

SPIRITIST UNION OF MOZAMBIQUE

The Spiritist Union of Mozambique was integrated to the International Spiritist Council during the Annual General Meeting in Cuba President Elide Carneiro Address Av Alfredo Keil 12 ndash Maputo Mobile +25 8844 613 251 unemomozgmailcom

wwwfacebookcomCEAKMZ

MOZAMBIQUE

MEXICAN SPIRITIST FEDERATION

The Mexican Federation of Spiritist Associations reports the activities below Federacioacuten Espiacuterita de Tamaulipas y las Huastecas (Spiritist Federation of Tamaulipas and the Huastecas) FETH

21st December 2012 talk and presentation of Spiritist poems by Spiritist youngsters in Valles S a n L u i s Potosi at the 1 8 t h anniversary of the Tomasito Herrera Spiritist Centre 21st to 23rd December 2012 talks and f e l l o w s h i p gathering of the Spiritist centres

of Mante Tamaulipas 1st January 2013 meeting of leaders of the FETH groups and fraternal gatherings January and February 2013 the official setup of t h e C o o r d i n a t i o n Department of Spiritist Centres from the Central Nor thwes t W estern Eastern Southeast regions of the country affiliated to the Mexican Federation of

Spiritist Associations local meeting of Spiritist centres in Mante and seminars held with the theme Death Spiritual Colonies Mental Irradiation and Spiritist Healing Celebration of 70th Anniversary de Spiritist Centre Love Light and Truth from Mante Anniversary de Spiritist Centre Love Light and Truth from Mante local report on the 7th International S p i r i t i s t C o n g r e s s participation in the meeting of the International Spiritist Council

MEXICO

meeting to strengthen and unify centres affiliated to the Federation and related institutions in the cities

of Valles Victoria Tampico Mante Pueblo Viejo Veracruz workshops held on Spiritist healing and fraternal assistance in the south of Veracruz and Tlaxcala

19th April interview about Spiritism and mediumship for the Radio Net 1060 AM group from the city of Juarez Chihuahua on 19th April

2013 Setting up of Spiritist Study Groups in Tabasco Quintana Roo Guadalajara and Sonora

Jorge Camargo jorgecamargozuritagmailcom

espiritismoenmexicohotmailcom

wwwespiritismoenmexicoorg

2nd QUARTER 2013 11

The meeting of CEICA took place with the presence of Mexico Panama and Honduras

CEYCA coordinator Dr Edwin Bravo

with Divaldo Franco and Patricia Rodriguez from the

Tamaulip Federation

Talk by Jorge Zurita at the

Congress in Cuba

THE SPIRITIST CHRISTIAN COMMUNION FRANCISCO CANDIDO XAVIER

wwwspiritismjp

JAPAN

GEEAK - NORWAY

The GEEAK Oslo continues to develop its

activities at the following address Dronningens gt

23 room 512 City Centre Oslo

Study of The Spirits books on Wednesdays at

6pm

Meimei Group (children and parents) on every

Saturday at 1230pm

Jussara Korngold was in Oslo for the second time

giving a talk at the Oslo Literature Hall on 14th

February 2013 with the theme Boosting your inner

Power

Spiritist Studies in Norway

Euripides Barsanulfo Spiritist Group - Bergen

Study of The Spirits book and the Gospel according

to Spiritism on Sundays from 730 to 9pm -

Information spiritismeibergengmailcom

Chico Xavier Spiritist Group - Trondheim

Meetings Wednesdays from 615 to 715pm

Contact spiritismentrondheimgmailcom

Bernt Torstenson Spiritist Study Group - Oslo

Meetings in Norwegian on Wednesdays from 1 to 2

pm Fredrikkebygget (UiO - Universitetet i Oslo

Blindern - Oslo) next to the Fredrikke Kapell

Contact sssbernttorstensongmailcom

Paul of Tarsus Spiritist Group Stavanger

Virtual meetings on Wednesdays from 730 to 9pm

Contact gepstavangergmailcom

httpspiritismestavangerblogspotno

postgeeaknorgecom

wwwgeeaknorgecom

NORWAY SPIRITIST SOCIETY

OF IRELAND

Andrei Moreira gave a talk in Dublin on 15th May 2013 on the theme Self Love a Healing Path

Divaldo Franco will be again in Dublin with the talk Mediumship Challenges and Blessings

on 11th June 2013 On 23rd May 2013 a talk by Sergio Thiesen Information sbertozzogmailcom

wwwallankardec-irelandorg

REPUBLIC OF IRELAND

ISC NEWSLETTER no48 12

GEEAK- LUXEMBOURG

Allan Kardec Spiritist Group of Luxembourg

You are all invited for a conference by Divaldo Pereira Franco on the theme Psychology of Gratitude Friday 7th June 2013 730pm to 1030pm Centre Socieacutetaire 29 rue de Strasbourg L-2560 - Luxembourg - Gare allankardecluxyahoofr wwwgroupespiriteallankardecluxcom

LUXEMBOURG

SPIRITIST FEDERATION OF PERU

The conference by Luis Hu took place in March

feperu_espiritayahoocom httpperuespiritablogspotcom

PERU

ALLAN KARDEC SPIRITIST GROUP - NZ

infoallankardecorgnz

httpallankardecorgnz

NEW ZEALAND

Study Group and AME GEEAK the Spiritist Medical Doctors Association of Coimbra

Contacts wwwgeeakpt

23rd Spiritist Gathering

of Lisbon

At the CEPC Centro Espiacuterita Perdatildeo e Caridade (Forgiveness and Charity Spiritist Centre) The themes are based on the book by Joanna de Angelis entitled Constelaccedilatildeo Familiar (Family

Constellation) From 10am to 5pm

With the participation of the Lisbon Spiritist Music Group and Choir and the Jogral Espiacuterita de Lisboa (Lisbon Spiritist Minstrel) as well as he participation of the DIJ of CEPC

Contacts wwwceperdaoecaridadept

June 17th CONCESP

The National Gathering of Spiritist Children will take place this year in Lisbon on 1st June From 1030 am to 430 pm at the Pousada da Juventude do Parque das Naccedilotildees with the theme Once upon a time the birds of heaven We look forward to seeing you with a lot of disposition and willingness in participating

Enrolment Forms concesp2013gmailcom

httpdijfeportuguesaptconcesp2013

Spiritist Meeting of Alentejo

On Sunday 2nd June from 10am to 6pm the Spiritist Meeting of Alentejo 2013 will take place at the D Fernando Hotel in Evora with the theme Spiritism in Alentejo

Contacts

cefeevoragmailcom

Cultural Spiritist

Meeting 2013

The Cultural Spiritist Meeting 2013 will be dedicated to the theme of The Portuguese Spiritist Movement and

2nd QUARTER 2013 13

will take place on Sunday 30th June from 2pm at its headquarters in Amadora Get to know better the history of the Portuguese Spiritist Movement See you there

Contacts wwwfeportuguesapt

Tel 214 975 754

geralfeportuguesapt

Featured

The Portuguese Spiritist Congress 2013

It will be held in Leiria at the premises of the Spiritist Association of Leiria on 16th amp 17th November under the theme of Mediumship a vision of the future We should point out that the hall has limited capacity so it is recommended that you book your place early

Contacts wwwfeportuguesapt

Please book your place by sending an email to

congressoespiritaportugues2013gmailcom

If you have any queries please dont hesitate to contact us

wwwfeportuguesapt

fepinformafeportuguesapt

focused on the same target which was to touching the soul of every one present in the huge audience awakening in those who were seeking knowledge a new opportunity for a new re-beginning Soon the videos of the talks will be available on Youtube Further information on the BUSS website below Article by Ana Marques

coordinator of Guiding Light Spiritist Society in Canterbury UK Photos Guilherme Almeida Future events in June in UK

Divaldo Franco on 9th June in London 10th June in Glasgow Therezinha Oliveira 23rd June to 30th June Talks in London and Wokingham

All posters and information are available on the BUSS website wwwbussorguk

busseventsgmailcom

BUSS - BRITISH UNION OF SPIRITIST SOCIETIES

2nd British Spiritist Congress Celebrating 30 Years of Spiritism

in the United Kingdom

With the main theme A new Era and the Dawning of a new Humanity the 2nd British Spiritist Congress held on 11th and 12th May 2013 at the main hall of the Quakers Friends House in London and organised by BUSS was a success Participants from 14 different countries were present namely France Norway Denmark Sweden Switzerland Japan Portugal Republic of Ireland Czech Republic Brazil Liechtenstein Germany Australia and Serbia During both Saturday and Sunday a total of 248 people enrolled for the event and were able to enjoy 15 talks offered by 13 speakers Charles Kempf General Secretary of the ISC Harold Dutra Dias Dr Andrei Moreira Speakers present from the UK Janet Duncan President of Allan Kardec Study Group - Centre for Spiritist Teachings London completing 30 years of foundation Guy Lyon Playfair Anne Christine Sinclair Silvia Gibbons Denise Ferrett Maria Gomes Davian Jessamy Elizabeth Freire Stevanin Tania and Tanya Moore

The event was hosted by Christopher Kinghorn There was a musical performance by Diego Carneiro p l a y i n g c e l l o s op r ano Maya Sapone and Martino Scovacricchi playing saxophone

Mark ing 30 years of Spiritism in the UK Janet Duncan founder of the Spiritist Movement in England gave a opening speech about the Pathway

to Enlightenment The event was broadcast worldwide through TVCEI (wwwtvceicom) and the talks were further broadcast by the Fraternity Radio and Good News Radio of

Brazil This great event focused primarily on bringing

together hearts and souls and also stressing the importance of diversity in our lives

13 speakers each one with their own different way of speaking and expressing themselves but

UNITED KINGDOM

ISC NEWSLETTER no48 14

THE SWEDISH SPIRITIST UNION

On 24th and 25th May Divaldo Pereira Franco was once again in Scandinavia This time in Gothenburg Sweden in a gathering with local Spiritist groups This year our companions from Finland also attended the event The eminent propagator of Spiritism gave a public talk in this city which was translated into Swedish and also a Seminar with the Spiritist Groups present

The Paring Vaumlgen till ljuset Spiritist Group and

the Leon Denis Spiritist Study Centre in Stockholm took part by selling Spiritist books and distributing messages at the Harmony Fair in Stockholm on 23rd and 24th last March It has been noticed during the Fair that people had a growing interest on the Spiritist Doctrine and its foundations

At the Vatumannen Bookstore in Stockholm Spiritist books continue to be sold and information leaflets on Spiritism distributed

The Leon Denis Spiritist Study Centre in

Stockholm is completing the study of the book Efter Doumlden (After Death) by Leon Denis which has already been translated into Swedish

Information spiritismensegmailcom

wwwgsfallankardecblogspotcom

wwwspiritismencom

httpspiritistiskaforbundetblogspotcouk

SWEDEN

2nd QUARTER 2013 15

accommodation and closer contact with people who normally would only have superficial contact one to each other at major events The Spirit Movement in Switzerland owes much to Mr Jorge Godinho who with his vast experience and great patience has been teaching and providing us with advice From 6th to 9th May we had

the great pleasure of having with us Haroldo Dutra a Spiritist speaker who travelled throughout Switzerland giving different talks and a short seminar With the election of the new board of directors of UCESS on 14th April 2013 Rejane Hostettler is now the director of UCESS and there are also 3 vice-directors Pedro Pereira Nelly Berchtold and Dilma Hambrock Rejane is doing a course on theology in Zurich and making Spiritism known amongst other religious denominations so that a new focus of work is being introduced

Two new Spiritist centres have been founded in this period CEBEM in Zurich (Kuumlsnacht) and GEFA in Bern (Zollikofen) In the Italian Switzerland we will be beginning a program of monthly

events in Italian in May (please see the poster) Most Spiritist centres have received a boost of new friends very knowledgeable in Spiritism joining these centres and are providing their help to the Spiritist movement with great motivation

Divaldo Franco spoke in Switzerland on 20th May 2013 in Zurich at G-19 a Spiritist institution In Winthertur at CEEAK he spoke on the following topic Rebellious Spirits and Peace For the Spiritist Centres in Switzerland please visit the website wwwspiritismech nellyberchtoldhotmailcom

UNION OF SPIRITIST STUDY CENTRES IN SWITZERLAND - UCESS

Members of the 10 Spiritist centres in Switzerland have been meeting regularly since

January 2013 for at least a week-end per month in the rural area of Berne to study the Spiritist doctrine Study a n d p r a c t i c e o f mediumship in the 1st half of the year and the Systematic Study of Spiritism is scheduled for 2nd half of the year This study promotes closer ties of friendship because of the study groups the shared

SWITZERLAND

CIVIL ASSOCIATION SOCRATES

We are working to legalise the Venezuelan Spiritist Federation Jose Vasquez L - ingjvasquezgmailcom

VENEZUELA URUGUAYAN SPIRITIST

FEDERATION - USF Seminar - Spiritual Assistance 60th Anniversary of Spiritist Centre Hacia la Verdad Organised by Spiritist Centre Hacia la Verdad Supported by Spiritist Assistance Department of the USF General Flores 4689 Info about the datehacialaverdadmontevideocom uyfeuruguaygmailcom wwwespiritismouruguaycom

URUGUAY

ISC NEWSLETTER no 48 16

SPIRITIST CENTRE LOVE

2 Groups Tallinn and Vosu Please write only in Esperanto Russian or Estonian to Mr August Kilk augustspiritismee

wwwspiritismee

ESTONIA

ALLAN KARDEC SPIRITIST GROUP

Please contact in Esperanto or Hungarian Szabadi Tibor satiborespgmailcom

HUNGARY

SPIRITISM IN FINLAND ALLAN KARDEC TYOumlRYHMAuml In April a talk on the Mediums Books was given in response to the invitation of the Spiritualist event held in Tampere

On 8th and 9th May the Spiritist movement in Finland had an invaluable help by Andrei Moreira on theme Depression from the Spiritist Perspective

The talks were held in Helsinki and Vaumlaumlksy and translated into Finnish We had 120 people who attended the event and apart from the organisers the audience was

100 Finnish It is with great joy that we inform that the Allan Kardec Tyoumlryhmauml ry (Allan Kardec Work Group) received their registration number from the Finnish authorities in May so becoming the first registered Spiritist association in Finland

We are always grateful for each seed of light which is sowed We hope to continue watering our garden of love

Contacts and information infoallankardecfi

infospiritismifi wwwspiritismifi

FINLAND

THE SPIRITIST MOVEMENT IN OTHER COUNTRIES

SPIRITISM IN BELARUS

The President of the Spiritist Group in Minsk (Belarusian Spiritist Group) is Andrei Latsinnik Vice-president Natalia Latsinnik and Spartak Severin is the contact for enquiries from other countries

The group is made up by 15 people From the translation into English or French the ISC newsletter is now also being translated into Russian by Spartak Severin Andrei and Natasha from the Spiritist Group of Minsk Please write only in English French Italian or Russian to spartak-severinyandexby httpbelarusspiritycom

BELARUS

2nd QUARTER 2013 17

Spiritism in Ecuador

In June an Executive Committee member of the ISC will be visiting Guayaquil to carry out tasks and Spiritist seminars organised by the South America Coordination Department

wwwespiritismoquitoblogspotcom

ECUADOR

UAE - UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

There are 3 Groups in the UAE The 3rd Meeting of Spiritist Philosophy of the Middle East took place on 23rd and 26th May with the participation of our dear friend Haroldo Dutra In February the Abu Dhabi Group organized the 6th Lecture Cycle for the 3 groups in the United Arab Emirates This time the guest speaker was

Anete Guimaraes httpespacodespertarblogspotcom

Cesar Augustus - GEEAD

contatogeeadgmailcom httpswwwfacebookcomgeeadabudhabi

Ana Elisa Vilhena ndash GECL -

grupoespiritacaminhodeluzgmailcom

ARAB EMIRATES

ALLAN KARDEC GROUP OF PRAGUE

27th May 2013 Prague

Seminar with Divaldo

Franco

Information allankardecseznamcz website in Czech wwwkardeccz

CZECH REPUBLIC

AUSTRALIA

Further information on the Spiritist Movement in some cities in Australia please visit the following website wwwallankardecsydneyorg allankardecsydneygmailcom

POLAND SPIRITISM IN WARSAW

Further information only in Polish on the website wwwspirytyzmpl konradspirytyzmpl wwwrivailpl

INTERNATIONAL SPIRITIST COUNCIL IN ARGENTINE

EDICEI at the 39th International Book Fair of

Buenos Aires

From 23rd April to 13th May 2013 as it always happened since 2009 the International Spiritist Council through Edicei Iberoamerica and under sponsored by the Argentine Spiritist Federation took part as an exhibitor in the 39th International Book Fair of Buenos Aires

50 countries 500 exhibitors took part in it and attracted 1200000 visitors On the stand more than 100 Spiritist books were on display including the basic works of the codification by Allan Kardec and the Spanish edition of the Spiritist Magazine of 1860 by Allan Kardec

After the event a sale of 455 books were registered including works of the following publishers namely Joanna de Angelis 18 de abril and the CEA

GLOBAL CAMPAIGN IN DEFENCE OF LIFE by the International Spiritist Council The artwork has been approved at the meeting in Havana Cuba It is made up of images in posters in different languages Artwork prepared by the team of the Portuguese Spiritist Federation To send the translation please email Helena on 7helenabbgmailcom Soon available in all languages on the ISC website wwwinterceicom

Spiritist Friend Please visit the website of the International Spiritist Council which is often updated httpceispiriteorges httpceispiriteorgpt httpceispiriteorg httpceispiriteorgfr wwwinterceicom

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2nd QUARTER 2013 3

7th Spiritist World Congress

Aiming at support ing and collaborating with Cuban Spiritists the International Spiritist Council and the Brazilian Spiritist Federation donated to Cuba a special edition in Spanish of The Gospel according to Spiritism and a container of books published in Spanish by the IDE

On 19th and 20th March 2013 a pre-Congress took place in the Eastern Cost of Cuba with talks and visits to the Manzanillo Bayamo and Sierra Maestra Spiritist institutions having a total of about 1200 participants As part of a local tradition before the start of the Congress a tribute at the Central square was paid to the educator and patriot Jose Marti who was also a supporter of Spiritist ideas

For the actual Congress 2012 people enrolled of whom 1200 were Cubans The following 31 countries stood out with a greater number of participants Brazil - 569 Colombia - 55 United States - 41 Mexico - 18 Uruguay - 16 Panama - 12 England and Portugal - 10

The Lazaro Pena Theatre in the centre of Havana had a full house throughout the event At the opening and at different times representatives of the Cuban Government were present Abel Prieto Jimenez advisor to the President of the Republic Caridad Diego Bello director of the Department of Religious Affairs for the Government and her advisor Eloisa Valdez Miriam Martha Garcia Marino director of associations of the Ministry of Justice At the opening table members of the ISC Executive Committee and representatives of the

participating countries The Spiritist medical doctor Servando Agramonte leader of the Cuban Spiritist Movement and Manuel de la Cruz organisers of the event gave an address The opening prayer was said by the head of the Spiritist Centre of Havana Divaldo Franco gave the opening and closing talks and a tribute was paid to him during the event for his work for peace The following people gave talks with the

central theme being The Spiritual Education and Charity in building a World of Peace - 150 Years of The Gospel according to Spiritism Fabio Villarraga and Jorge Berrio (Colombia) Charles Kempf (France) Victor Mora Feria (Portugal) Eduardo Nanni (Bolivia) Jean-Paul Evrard (Belgium) Jussara Korngold and Vanessa Anseloni (USA) Antonio Cesar Perri de Carvalho Marlene Noble and Roberto Fuina Versiani (Brazil) Elsa Rossi (UK) Cyrus Labrada Servando Agramonte Raul Hernandez Espinosa Manuel de la Cruz and Rev Juan Ramon de La Paz (Cuba) Jose Velasquez (El Salvador) Maria de La Gracia Ender (Panama) Jorge Zurita Camargo (Mexico) Odette Lettelier (Chile) Jose Vasquez (Venezuela) Salvador Martin (Spain) Edwin Bravo (Guatemala) Eduardo dos Santos and Edimilson Luiz Nogueira (Uruguay) Edgar Machuca (Puerto Rico) and Gustavo Martinez (Argentina) Many artistic and cultural presentations took place At the end it was announced that the videos on the Congress will be available on a new website within 40 days (wwwcubaespiritaorg) A video was presented by the Portuguese Spiritist Federation inviting people to attend the 8th World Spiritist Congress which is scheduled for 2016 in Lisbon The closing prayer of the Congress was said by the President of Brazilian Spiritist Federation During the event the bust of Allan Kardec located in a public square in Havana was visited

Granma the official newspaper of Cuba government published in its issue of 23rd March news about the Congress of ISC

There are 574 registered Spiritist societies in Cuba

Information www7cemorg wwwfebnetorgbr wwwcubaespiritaorg

THE GERMAN SPIRITIST UNION

The so much anticipated seminar On the way to the Light with Haroldo Dutra Dias in Stuttgart at the headquarters GSU and SEELE Group was a success

Harold moved the more than 60 participants with his charisma and eloquence of knowledge Travelling on to Berlin he gave the same seminar to a larger audience

On 8th May 2013 Divaldo Franco started a new itinerary for his tour of dissemination of Spiritism in Europe The first city to welcome him was the beautiful Munich in the south of Germany Divaldo spoke about mediumship but with an initial approach that studied the characteristics of human beings and their different levels of consciousness Travelling to Stuttgart on 9th May 2013 Divaldo Franco gave a talk on the theme The Psychology of Gratitude at the Deutsche Vereinigung Spiritistiche (German Spiritist Union) to fully packed hall

On 10th May 2013 in Frankfurt he gave a talk with the theme Life in the Spiritual World and travelled to Bonn on 11th amp 12th May to coordinate a Spiritual Retreat Two hundred people attended the event listening to the theme Dawn of a new Era

Divaldo travelled to Bremen on 13th May and Mannheim on 15th May We know that wherever he goes he leaves a lesson of love and brotherhood

We would like to let you know that due to force majeure the Spiritist Educators for Children and Youth Training Course scheduled to be held on 15th amp 16th June 2013 in Stuttgart Germany has been moved to 15th amp 16th February 2014

Information wwwspiritismus-dsvde

kontaktspiritismus-dsvde

GERMANY

SPIRITIST SOCIETY ALLAN KARDEC OF ANGOLA

seakaangolagmailcom wwwseakaorg

ANGOLA

ARGENTINE SPIRITIST FEDERATION

Fraternal Gathering - 14th April 2013 Intersocietaria Espiacuterita (Spiritist Intersociety)

Lonquimay Santa Rosa (La Pampa)

On Sunday 14th April 203 a meeting of representatives of the Argentine Spiritist Federation and Intersocietaria Espiacuterita (Spiritist Intersociety) took place These organizations are made up by the following institutions Luz de la Pampa (Light of the Pampas) La Esperanza de Povernir (The Hope for the Future) Fundacioacuten de Estudio y Difusioacuten Espiacuterita (Foundation for the Spiritist Study and Dissemination) the last three of them being in the city of Santa Rosa Caridad Cristiana (Christian Charity) in Lonquimay Amor Fraternal (Fraternal Love) in the city of Carlos Tejedor and Saacuteenz Cortez in the city of Pehuajo

Their activities include Leaders meeting at the Christian Charity Spiritist Society Mr Gustavo Martinez the ASF chairman spoke on the theme Times have come in which he explained the Program of support to Spiritist Institutions for them to carry out their basic activities approved by the Federal Council of ASF as part of the 2012 - 2014 Action Plan which includes the creation of seven departments of work

Coordinator of Spiritual Assistance Department of the ASF and a member of the Spiritist Medical Association of Argentina Dr Daniel Gomes Montanelli spoke about the actual activities that a Spiritist centre can develop to care for people who seek support insight into and guidance on their spiritual and moral problems

In the afternoon we went to La Esperanza de Povernir Spiritist Centre in Santa Rosa where members of the Luz de la Pampa Spiritist Centre FEDE and Hacia la Fraternidad (On the way to Fraternity) Spiritist Centre were waiting for us

The meeting La Esperanza de Povernir in Santa Rosa Luz de la Pampa FEDE and Hacia la Fraternidad Welcome by Prof Mabel Rivas President of the host centre Conference by the Bachelor Daniel Gomes Montanelli on Thought and Health

Mr Eduardo de Elorriaga representing the Intersocietaria Espiacuterita said words of gratitude and handed to the representatives of the ASF a beautiful piece of engraved crystal as a memento of the meeting

Gustavo N Martinez ceaespiritistagmailcom wwwconfespirargcomar

ARGENTINA

ISC NEWSLETTER no 48 4

ASOCIACIOgraveN CIVIL DE PROYECCIOgraveN MORAL

infohondurasespiritaorg wwwhondurasespiritaorg

HONDURAS

BOLIVIAN SPIRITIST FEDERATION

Arrangements in progress for the BSF to take part in the 14th International Book Fair of Santa Cruz de la Sierra from 29th May to 9th June with the massive presence of publishers booksellers exhibitors writers and the general public The Spiritist works are being exhibited with much love and care by the team of volunteers from Spiritist centres of Santa Cruz and leaders of the BSF eduardonannicotascombo wwwfebolorg

BOLIVIA

BRAZILIAN SPIRITIST FEDERATION

FEB local actions

With meetings of the Central region (Palmas) in May and the North region (Porto Velho) in June the cycle of local meetings of the National Federative Council of FEB have been completed This has already been completed in the Northeast region in Jaboatao dos Guararapes Recife and in the South region in Embu das Artes Sao Paulo The meeting in the south area was attended by the Uruguayan Spiritist Federation with a team of eight participants and by the former FEB President Nestor Joao Masotti who received tributes from the current Presidents of FEB and USE-SP Subjects discussed included adjustments to the areas of work arrangements for the 4th Brazilian Spiritist Congress in 2014 arrangements for the joint meeting of Regional Committees of the National Federative Council of FEB in 2014 implementation of the Work Plan for the Brazilian Spiritist Movement (2013 to 2017) There were meetings held for the departments of Spiritual Assistance Mediumship Childhood and Youth Spiritist Social and Promotion Assistance Social Communication and Systematic Study of Spiritism At the end a seminar on Management of Federations had been developed attended by all groups and coordinated by the workers of the National Federative Council of FEB

Information cfnfebnetorgbr

FEB takes over the Spiritist Museum On the Spiritist Book day 18th April the Spiritist

Museum of Satildeo Paulo in the borough of Lapa was transferred to the Brazilian Spiritist Federation The

c e r e m o n y w a s attended by FEB President Antonio Cesar Perri de C a r v a l h o a n d directors Celia Maria Rey de Carvalho Joao Pinto Rabelo

and Niraldo Pulcineli the founders of the museum namely Paulo Machado and Elza Malzzonetto Machado the former FEB President Nestor Joao Masotti and his wife Maria Euny several collaborators of ICESP leaders and President of USE-SP Julia Nezu de Oliveira and journalists from the Spiritist press Mrs Elza M Machado the FEB President and the new coordinator of the Vieira de Melo Ocean Museum gave an address The

BRAZIL

ALLAN KARDEC - VAK Viena

Further information vakardecmsncom

Please visit us also on Facebook VAK-Wien vakardecmsncom wwwspiritismusat

AUSTRIA

2nd QUARTER 2013 5

Belgium Spiritist Union

Symposium 2013 - Organized by the Belgium Spiritist Union

25th amp 26th May 2013

Theme The importance of children in the world of

tomorrow

Venue Weacutegimont Castle 4630 Soumagne (20km away

from Liege)

Full programme on

httpwwwspiritebeimagesaffichesprog-sympopdf usbspiritebe wwwspiritebe

BELGIUM

Museum in due course will undergo some rearrangements and carry on its normal activities thereafter Information diretoriafebnetorgbr

Book Exhibition at the House of Representatives (Cacircmara dos Deputados)

The Spiritist Book for a new World was the title of the exhibition which took place from 15th to 30th April at the House of Representatives It was an initiative by the Member of the House of Representatives Marco A Ubiali with production by the Brazilian Spiritist Federation The inauguration was attended by the President of the FEB the Vice-President and a few members of the House of Representatives The major works by the FEB Publisher of Allan Kardec and Chico Xavier which are landmarks of Spiritism also historic articles and materials such as Chicos birth certificate as well as videos depicting the works and personalities of Spiritist were on display

Information diretoriafebnetorgbr

Releases and reprinting of books by FEB FEB Publisher has re-published and released dozens of books In May The new Testament translated by Haroldo Dutra Dias was released with the texts by the four Evangelists and Acts of the Apostles About the book at FEB Portal Nowadays the works of FEB Publisher with updated layout and

covers which the readers like are be ing w ide l y distributed At the same time book production and distribution are being modernized to better cater for the needs of the

modern world At international level FEB has always published a number of books in Esperanto and some in French In recent years it has licensed the translation of several titles to Editoras Mensaje Fraternal (Fraternal Message Publisher) in Venezuela to IDE Editora and EDICEI This assured a wide propagation of Spiritism in Spanish and enabled the International Spiritist Council to have publications available in over a dozen languages Information wwwfergsorgbr wwwfebnetorgbr httpwwwfebnetorgbrblogtopicogeralcolunistascesar-perri

CANADIAN SPIRITIST COUNCIL

secretarycanadianspiritistcouncilcom wwwcanadianspiritistcouncilcom

CANADA

THE COLOMBIAN SPIRITIST

FEDERATION

Regional Meetings

The Colombian Spiritist movement legally supported by national constitution is holding Regional Meetings complying with the law for the

election of its Council of Directors particularly the nine affiliated Federations and their respective Spiritist centres

Annual General Meeting of the Colombian Spiritist Federation (CONFECOL)

On 10th May CONFECOL the entity that governs Spiritism in our country elected its new National Federative Council The members elected for the period 2013 to 2016 were as follows President Mr Jorge Ramoacuten Berrio Bustillo General Secretary Mr Luis Fernando Vargas Lozano Managing amp Finance Director Mr German T Espinosa Finance Supervisor Mr Emiro Navarro Deputy Finance Supervisor Mr Francisco Ariza Inspector Mr Jorge Francisco Leoacuten

Deputy Inspector Axel Rhenals Turriago The target for this period is to continue the 3rd

phase of Unification

Gathering for National Unification

On 12th May all federations of the country have been called to Bogota to carry out the last arrangements in the departments of Social Assistance and Promotion

and that of Family Childhood and Youth These are topics worked on in parallel at the Senderos da la Esperanza (Workers of Hope) and Tercera Revelacioacuten (Third Revelation) Spiritist Institutions

wwwconfecolorg secretariogeneralconfecolorg

COLOMBIA

ISC NEWSLETTER no 48 6

UNIVERSAL LOVE AND CHARITY

SOCIETY

The website wwwcubaespiritaorg has an event summary of the whole 7th World Spiritist Congress and all activities at Spiritist Centres in Cuba This will be the official website of Cuban Spiritists Received by Manuel de la Cruz lacruzmannyaolcom

CUBA

SPIRITIST STUDY CENTRE BUENA NUEVA

Besides their weekly activities the CEEBN participated in the 7th World Spiritist Congress held in Cuba

The Annual General Meeting for the election of the new board of directors for 2013 and 2014 was held in March

A Seminar and other Spiritist activities in August will be held by Dr Andrei Moreira from Brazil Odete Letelier espiritismoespiritismocl wwwespiritismocl

CHILE

SPANISH SPIRITIST FEDERATION

The issue 5 of the Spiritist Magazine of the Spanish Spiritist Federation has just been released It is covers the propagation of Spiritist culture and is

SPAIN

UNITED STATES SPIRITIST COUNCIL

On 20th April 2013 the 7th US Spiritist Symposium was held in the city of Dallas Texas The event takes place once a year and is supported and attended by the National Spiritist movement Each year on Sunday following the Symposium which takes place on Saturday the Annual General Meeting of the US Spiritist Council (USSC) is held and attended by the leaders of Spiritist Groups from various parts of the country

This year the Symposium started with an opening ceremony that included all board members of the USSC going onto stage and paying a tribute to the United States as a nation which guarantees complete freedom of religious expression to its citizens unlike what is happening in many other countries At the opening the USSC President also

UNITED STATES

SPIRITIST FEDERATION OF EL SALVADOR

8 Spiritist centres affiliated to the SFS Ciacuterculo de Investigaciones Psicofiacutesicas Sociedad Siacutequico Filosoacutefico Espiritual El Mesiacuteas La Verdad es para Todos Spiritist Centre Faro del Saber Spiritist Centre Virgilio Manzanares Pentildea Spiritist Centre Sociedad de Mediums Spiritist Centre Juan Diego de Guadalupe Spiritist Centre El Buen Amigo Spiritist Centre

Rosa Amelia Campos

federacionelsalvadorespiritaorg

EL SALVADOR

called for a minute of silence for all the victims affected by the terrorist event in Boston and by the disaster which happened at a chemical plant in Texas lsquoWe are extremely blessed to being able to live in a country like

the United States of Americarsquo said USSC President Mauricio Cisneros The event continued with lectures in one hall and short training seminars for Spiritist workers in another The event was closed by a representative of the Spiritist movement of Illinois when he made an invitation to the next Symposium of 2014 in Chicago Further details are available at

wwwspiritistsymposiumorg wwwspiritistus infospiritistus

2nd QUARTER 2013 7

positive feedback from lay readers and also resulted in the creation of many websites about Chico Xavier in the Spiritualist environment

The FSC continues to collaborate with the publishing of the Revue Spirite (Spiritist Magazine) in French which has been distributed at the 7th World Spiritist Congress and the ISC Annual General Meeting in Havana

The first Spiritist book for children in French has been published by Librairie Spirite Francophone in Quebec It is the result of a wide co-operation at Francophone level with the Committee for Moral Education of the Coordination Department of Europe with illustrations by Claudia Milena Werdine Alborghetti and translated by Marcia Kempf The book can be purchased at Amazon

On 9th March 2013 a local meeting of Southeast groups took place in Arles and on 28th April 2013 an E a s t e r n F r a n c e gathering took place in Hielle with a seminar on Healing run by Rosenite Alves On 30th March 2013 a seminar in Brittany run by Alirio Cerqueira Filho on mental energy

and self-healing took place On 25th amp 26th May the annual Symposium took place at the Wegimont Castle in Belgium On 8th and 9th June a local Southeast meeting will take place in Denice and on 22nd and 23rd June a local Northern meeting will be held in Lievain

Further information wwwspiritismeorg

the official publication of the Spanish Spiritist Federation and has an article dedicated to the History of Spiritism in the world

Themes developed in this issue include from precursors such as Swendborg Jackson Davis and the Fox sisters and moving on to the Spiritist revelation codified by Allan Kardec the Society of Spiritist Studies of Paris and the Revue Spirite (The Spiritist Magazine)It also included articles on the dedicated work of the mediums of the second half of the 19th century Arthur Conan Doyle and an overview of Spiritism as it stands in the world today

It featured the great work of propagation started by the Spiritist Magazine of the Spanish Spiritist Federation through the Propagation Committee with the distribution of the magazine to many universities libraries and cultural centres mainly in Madrid Castilla-La Mancha and Castilla-Leon This magazine focused primarily on the dissemination to non-Spiritist individuals trying to reclaim the space that Spiritist proposes to better understand and face the difficulties people encounter in this world of trials and regeneration

Also the speaker Haroldo Dutra a Judge from the state of Minas Gerais made a tour of Madrid Valencia and Alicante from 15th to 17th May 2013 giving talks and holding meetings

Healing through Forgiveness and The new Era were some of the themes spoken during his tour through several European countries to promote Spiritism

infoespiritismocc wwwespiritismocc

FRENCH SPIRITIST COUNCIL

The French Spiritist Council (FSC) was represented at the 7th World Spiritist Congress and Annual General Meeting of the ISC in Havana by Luc Moussu and Charles Kempf They are making the arrangements to launch a new campaign Amar a Vida (Loving Life) promoted by the ISC and carried out by the Portuguese Spiritist Federation The material has been translated into French and will be shown on the cover of next issue of the Voie Spirite (Spiritist Way) newsletter (cover on the left-hand side)

The FSC in co-operation with LMSF keeps promoting books with large stock at EDICEI in Brasilia which are being sold as second hand for 990 Euros This has been bringing not only income to the ISC and the French speaking movement but also greatly increasing the dissemination of the works of Andre Luiz in France It has attracted much

FRANCE

Executive Committee of ISC

General Secretary Charles Kempf (France) 1st Secretary A Cesar Perri de Carvalho (Brazil) 2nd Secretary Elsa Rossi (United Kingdom) 1st Treasurer Roberto Versiani ( Brazil) 2nd Treasurer Jean-Paul Evrard (Belgium) Eduardo Santos (Uruguay) Edwin Bravo (Guatemala) Faacutebio Villarraga (Colombia) Jussara Korngold (USA) Milciades Lezcano ( Paraguay) Vitor Mora Feria ( Portugal) Salvador Martin ( Spain)

ISC NEWSLETTER no 48 8

DUTCH SPIRITIST COUNCIL

Events promoted by the Dutch Spiritist Council

Haroldo Dutra Dias Theme Paul amp Stephen amp the Parables of Jesus

19th May 2013 from 1pm to 6pm Tel 0630 050 947 with Rikeli or

0651 085 180 with Rosana grupoespiritaemanuelhotmailcom

Divaldo Pereira Franco Theme Psychology of Gratitude 22nd May 7 to 9 pm Venue Florence Steenvoorde

Building Generaal Spoorlaan 62 ndash 2285 CH - Rijswijk

Enrolment by e-mail infonrspnl Contact 0645 267 902 with

Maria Moraes

Iris and Claudio Sinoti 1st theme The Psychology of Love 29th May 730 pm to 930 pm Address Hembrugstraat 156 - 2nd floor

1013 XC Amsterdam Enrolment by e-mail infonrspnl Contact 0645 267 902 with Maria Moraes or

0644 357 538 with Nilson 2nd theme Reflecting the soul the Spiritist

Psychology of Joanna de Angelis 30th May 8pm to 10pm Venue Stichting Muzenis

Cliffordstraat 38 1051 GV Amsterdam

Enrolment svjangelisgmailcom Contact 0615 091 659 with Dalva

12th National Spiritist Meeting Speakers Charles Kempf Claudia Werdine and

Milena Alborghetti Theme Happiness from a Spiritist viewpoint Date Sunday 25th August 2013 Address Hembrugstraat 156 - 2nd floor 1013 XC Amsterdam Contact Maria Moraes - nrspiritismeyahoocombr

amp infonrspnl

4th Congress on Medicine amp Spirituality Date Saturday 12th October 2013 Venue Florence Steenvoorde Building Address Generaal Spoorlaan 62 2285 CH - Rijswijk Contact Maria Moraes - infonrspnl

nrspevenementengmailcom Full information available soon For further information please visit the Dutch Spiritist Council website at wwwnrspnl Maria Moraesinfonrspnl

HOLLAND

Excellent quality and quantity of Spiritist Courses and Conferences available on the

website of TV CEI Have you already visited it

wwwtvceicom

THE FRANCISCAN SPIRITIST CENTRE

infojoanadecusaorgau wwwjoanadecusaorgau For further information please see page 17

AUSTRALIA

CADENA HELIOSOPHICA GUATEMALTECA

A quarterly talk by the Cadeia Heliosophica Guatemalteca (Guatemalan Philosophical Study Network) took place on 27th April 203 in Joya Cuilco Huehuetenango district in Guatemala propagating the teachings of the codification of Allan Kardec providing

medical care and handing out of free medicines moral education for children and youth and a talk for over 900 brothers and sisters from different villages who arrived by lorry or on foot to listen to the teachings of the Master Jesus The board of directors also met to arrange the next quarterly conference which will take place on 27th July in the village of Ninchim San Marcos with Alipio Gonzalez who will be coming from Venezuela

It has been reported that Spiritist centre of the village of Tuimuca joined the Guatemalan Philosophical Study

Network On the first Sunday of each month the Grupo de Damas Heliosophicas Rogelia Marroquin de Bravo (Group of Ladies of Philosophical Study Network Rogelia Marroquin de Bravo) organizes a breakfast lecture for the benefit of the Charity and Light School at a restaurant in the city centre and on Sunday 5th May Mothers Day had

been successfully celebrated Edwin Bravo wwwguatespiritaorg

GUATEMALA

2nd QUARTER 2013 9

THE PORTUGUESE SPIRITIST

FEDERATION

Spiritist Culture Gathering

The Association of Propagators of Spiritism of Portugal APSP held the 9th Spiritist Culture Gathering on 20th and 21st April 2013 at the municipal hall A Casa da Muacutesica (The Music Hall) in the beautiful town of Obidos again with a full house The overall feeling was that of satisfaction for getting together and exchanging knowledge

Contacts wwwadeportugalorgjornadas

Training for Workers

Saturday 11th May 2013 from 3 to 5 pm at the Portuguese Spiritist Federations headquarters a workshop on accountancy for Spiritist Workers took place

Spiritist Gathering of Algarve

The Spiritist Gathering of Algarve organized by the Nuacutecleo Familiar Espiacuterita do Mentor Amigo (Spiritist Family Centre of the Friend Mentor) took place on Sunday 12th May 2013 at the Eva Hotel in Faro It was a time of glad getting together and exchange of knowledge

Contact 965 053 743 nfe_mentoramigosapopt

Seminar by Iris and Claudio Sinoti

On 19th May the Portuguese Spiritist Federation held at its headquarters a seminar on topics related to psychology addressed in the book Refletindo a Alma (Reflecting the Soul) and others from the psychological works of the Spirit of Joanna de Angelis Iris and Claudio Sinotti who are workers from the Mansatildeo do Caminho (Mansion of the Way) Bahia joined us in the event

Contacts geralfeportuguesapt

Health and Light Project

The 3rd Light and Health Project where topics related to physical mental and spiritual health will be discussed is being organized by the Allan Kardec

PORTUGAL ITALIAN SPIRITIST UNION

The Italian Spiritist Union through its President Regina Piccoli informs that they have all the slides of the Systematic Study of Spiritism volume I and II translated into Italian They are completing the review to draw up a booklet as a complement to the study of the classes Info italiausigmailcom

ITALY

SPIRITIST FRATERNITY GOD LOVE amp CHARITY

Saturday 16th March 2013 - Self-discovery

Seminar - with the active participation of speakers Dr Andrei Moreira from Brazil Prof Jose Angel Velasquez from El Salvador Dr Edwin Bravo and Prof Johana Bravo from Guatemala and Dr Maria de la Gracia Ender from Panama The photos of the seminar are on Fedac Facebook at wwwfedacorgpa We had an audience of 200 people with a great interest by the participants

2 Active participation at the 7th World Spiritist Congress with a Fedac delegation of 15 people among Spiritists and accompanying people

3 We are now facing a temporary difficulty with the moving to new premises The venue we had for 26 years is being sold and we have to vacate the property

We are still looking for a place to move to within our budget

Dr Maria de la Gracia Ender wwwfedacorgpa fedacpanamahotmailcom

PANAMA

PARAGUAY SPIRITIST CENTRE

The 10th Spiritist Week in Paraguay took place and was organised by the Paraguayan Spiritist Federacion

On 13th 14th and 15th September the 2nd South American Spiritist Congress took place in

Asuncion centroespiritaparaguayo_cepariedernetpy

PARAGUAY

ISC NEWSLETTER no 48 10

SPIRITIST UNION OF MOZAMBIQUE

The Spiritist Union of Mozambique was integrated to the International Spiritist Council during the Annual General Meeting in Cuba President Elide Carneiro Address Av Alfredo Keil 12 ndash Maputo Mobile +25 8844 613 251 unemomozgmailcom

wwwfacebookcomCEAKMZ

MOZAMBIQUE

MEXICAN SPIRITIST FEDERATION

The Mexican Federation of Spiritist Associations reports the activities below Federacioacuten Espiacuterita de Tamaulipas y las Huastecas (Spiritist Federation of Tamaulipas and the Huastecas) FETH

21st December 2012 talk and presentation of Spiritist poems by Spiritist youngsters in Valles S a n L u i s Potosi at the 1 8 t h anniversary of the Tomasito Herrera Spiritist Centre 21st to 23rd December 2012 talks and f e l l o w s h i p gathering of the Spiritist centres

of Mante Tamaulipas 1st January 2013 meeting of leaders of the FETH groups and fraternal gatherings January and February 2013 the official setup of t h e C o o r d i n a t i o n Department of Spiritist Centres from the Central Nor thwes t W estern Eastern Southeast regions of the country affiliated to the Mexican Federation of

Spiritist Associations local meeting of Spiritist centres in Mante and seminars held with the theme Death Spiritual Colonies Mental Irradiation and Spiritist Healing Celebration of 70th Anniversary de Spiritist Centre Love Light and Truth from Mante Anniversary de Spiritist Centre Love Light and Truth from Mante local report on the 7th International S p i r i t i s t C o n g r e s s participation in the meeting of the International Spiritist Council

MEXICO

meeting to strengthen and unify centres affiliated to the Federation and related institutions in the cities

of Valles Victoria Tampico Mante Pueblo Viejo Veracruz workshops held on Spiritist healing and fraternal assistance in the south of Veracruz and Tlaxcala

19th April interview about Spiritism and mediumship for the Radio Net 1060 AM group from the city of Juarez Chihuahua on 19th April

2013 Setting up of Spiritist Study Groups in Tabasco Quintana Roo Guadalajara and Sonora

Jorge Camargo jorgecamargozuritagmailcom

espiritismoenmexicohotmailcom

wwwespiritismoenmexicoorg

2nd QUARTER 2013 11

The meeting of CEICA took place with the presence of Mexico Panama and Honduras

CEYCA coordinator Dr Edwin Bravo

with Divaldo Franco and Patricia Rodriguez from the

Tamaulip Federation

Talk by Jorge Zurita at the

Congress in Cuba

THE SPIRITIST CHRISTIAN COMMUNION FRANCISCO CANDIDO XAVIER

wwwspiritismjp

JAPAN

GEEAK - NORWAY

The GEEAK Oslo continues to develop its

activities at the following address Dronningens gt

23 room 512 City Centre Oslo

Study of The Spirits books on Wednesdays at

6pm

Meimei Group (children and parents) on every

Saturday at 1230pm

Jussara Korngold was in Oslo for the second time

giving a talk at the Oslo Literature Hall on 14th

February 2013 with the theme Boosting your inner

Power

Spiritist Studies in Norway

Euripides Barsanulfo Spiritist Group - Bergen

Study of The Spirits book and the Gospel according

to Spiritism on Sundays from 730 to 9pm -

Information spiritismeibergengmailcom

Chico Xavier Spiritist Group - Trondheim

Meetings Wednesdays from 615 to 715pm

Contact spiritismentrondheimgmailcom

Bernt Torstenson Spiritist Study Group - Oslo

Meetings in Norwegian on Wednesdays from 1 to 2

pm Fredrikkebygget (UiO - Universitetet i Oslo

Blindern - Oslo) next to the Fredrikke Kapell

Contact sssbernttorstensongmailcom

Paul of Tarsus Spiritist Group Stavanger

Virtual meetings on Wednesdays from 730 to 9pm

Contact gepstavangergmailcom

httpspiritismestavangerblogspotno

postgeeaknorgecom

wwwgeeaknorgecom

NORWAY SPIRITIST SOCIETY

OF IRELAND

Andrei Moreira gave a talk in Dublin on 15th May 2013 on the theme Self Love a Healing Path

Divaldo Franco will be again in Dublin with the talk Mediumship Challenges and Blessings

on 11th June 2013 On 23rd May 2013 a talk by Sergio Thiesen Information sbertozzogmailcom

wwwallankardec-irelandorg

REPUBLIC OF IRELAND

ISC NEWSLETTER no48 12

GEEAK- LUXEMBOURG

Allan Kardec Spiritist Group of Luxembourg

You are all invited for a conference by Divaldo Pereira Franco on the theme Psychology of Gratitude Friday 7th June 2013 730pm to 1030pm Centre Socieacutetaire 29 rue de Strasbourg L-2560 - Luxembourg - Gare allankardecluxyahoofr wwwgroupespiriteallankardecluxcom

LUXEMBOURG

SPIRITIST FEDERATION OF PERU

The conference by Luis Hu took place in March

feperu_espiritayahoocom httpperuespiritablogspotcom

PERU

ALLAN KARDEC SPIRITIST GROUP - NZ

infoallankardecorgnz

httpallankardecorgnz

NEW ZEALAND

Study Group and AME GEEAK the Spiritist Medical Doctors Association of Coimbra

Contacts wwwgeeakpt

23rd Spiritist Gathering

of Lisbon

At the CEPC Centro Espiacuterita Perdatildeo e Caridade (Forgiveness and Charity Spiritist Centre) The themes are based on the book by Joanna de Angelis entitled Constelaccedilatildeo Familiar (Family

Constellation) From 10am to 5pm

With the participation of the Lisbon Spiritist Music Group and Choir and the Jogral Espiacuterita de Lisboa (Lisbon Spiritist Minstrel) as well as he participation of the DIJ of CEPC

Contacts wwwceperdaoecaridadept

June 17th CONCESP

The National Gathering of Spiritist Children will take place this year in Lisbon on 1st June From 1030 am to 430 pm at the Pousada da Juventude do Parque das Naccedilotildees with the theme Once upon a time the birds of heaven We look forward to seeing you with a lot of disposition and willingness in participating

Enrolment Forms concesp2013gmailcom

httpdijfeportuguesaptconcesp2013

Spiritist Meeting of Alentejo

On Sunday 2nd June from 10am to 6pm the Spiritist Meeting of Alentejo 2013 will take place at the D Fernando Hotel in Evora with the theme Spiritism in Alentejo

Contacts

cefeevoragmailcom

Cultural Spiritist

Meeting 2013

The Cultural Spiritist Meeting 2013 will be dedicated to the theme of The Portuguese Spiritist Movement and

2nd QUARTER 2013 13

will take place on Sunday 30th June from 2pm at its headquarters in Amadora Get to know better the history of the Portuguese Spiritist Movement See you there

Contacts wwwfeportuguesapt

Tel 214 975 754

geralfeportuguesapt

Featured

The Portuguese Spiritist Congress 2013

It will be held in Leiria at the premises of the Spiritist Association of Leiria on 16th amp 17th November under the theme of Mediumship a vision of the future We should point out that the hall has limited capacity so it is recommended that you book your place early

Contacts wwwfeportuguesapt

Please book your place by sending an email to

congressoespiritaportugues2013gmailcom

If you have any queries please dont hesitate to contact us

wwwfeportuguesapt

fepinformafeportuguesapt

focused on the same target which was to touching the soul of every one present in the huge audience awakening in those who were seeking knowledge a new opportunity for a new re-beginning Soon the videos of the talks will be available on Youtube Further information on the BUSS website below Article by Ana Marques

coordinator of Guiding Light Spiritist Society in Canterbury UK Photos Guilherme Almeida Future events in June in UK

Divaldo Franco on 9th June in London 10th June in Glasgow Therezinha Oliveira 23rd June to 30th June Talks in London and Wokingham

All posters and information are available on the BUSS website wwwbussorguk

busseventsgmailcom

BUSS - BRITISH UNION OF SPIRITIST SOCIETIES

2nd British Spiritist Congress Celebrating 30 Years of Spiritism

in the United Kingdom

With the main theme A new Era and the Dawning of a new Humanity the 2nd British Spiritist Congress held on 11th and 12th May 2013 at the main hall of the Quakers Friends House in London and organised by BUSS was a success Participants from 14 different countries were present namely France Norway Denmark Sweden Switzerland Japan Portugal Republic of Ireland Czech Republic Brazil Liechtenstein Germany Australia and Serbia During both Saturday and Sunday a total of 248 people enrolled for the event and were able to enjoy 15 talks offered by 13 speakers Charles Kempf General Secretary of the ISC Harold Dutra Dias Dr Andrei Moreira Speakers present from the UK Janet Duncan President of Allan Kardec Study Group - Centre for Spiritist Teachings London completing 30 years of foundation Guy Lyon Playfair Anne Christine Sinclair Silvia Gibbons Denise Ferrett Maria Gomes Davian Jessamy Elizabeth Freire Stevanin Tania and Tanya Moore

The event was hosted by Christopher Kinghorn There was a musical performance by Diego Carneiro p l a y i n g c e l l o s op r ano Maya Sapone and Martino Scovacricchi playing saxophone

Mark ing 30 years of Spiritism in the UK Janet Duncan founder of the Spiritist Movement in England gave a opening speech about the Pathway

to Enlightenment The event was broadcast worldwide through TVCEI (wwwtvceicom) and the talks were further broadcast by the Fraternity Radio and Good News Radio of

Brazil This great event focused primarily on bringing

together hearts and souls and also stressing the importance of diversity in our lives

13 speakers each one with their own different way of speaking and expressing themselves but

UNITED KINGDOM

ISC NEWSLETTER no48 14

THE SWEDISH SPIRITIST UNION

On 24th and 25th May Divaldo Pereira Franco was once again in Scandinavia This time in Gothenburg Sweden in a gathering with local Spiritist groups This year our companions from Finland also attended the event The eminent propagator of Spiritism gave a public talk in this city which was translated into Swedish and also a Seminar with the Spiritist Groups present

The Paring Vaumlgen till ljuset Spiritist Group and

the Leon Denis Spiritist Study Centre in Stockholm took part by selling Spiritist books and distributing messages at the Harmony Fair in Stockholm on 23rd and 24th last March It has been noticed during the Fair that people had a growing interest on the Spiritist Doctrine and its foundations

At the Vatumannen Bookstore in Stockholm Spiritist books continue to be sold and information leaflets on Spiritism distributed

The Leon Denis Spiritist Study Centre in

Stockholm is completing the study of the book Efter Doumlden (After Death) by Leon Denis which has already been translated into Swedish

Information spiritismensegmailcom

wwwgsfallankardecblogspotcom

wwwspiritismencom

httpspiritistiskaforbundetblogspotcouk

SWEDEN

2nd QUARTER 2013 15

accommodation and closer contact with people who normally would only have superficial contact one to each other at major events The Spirit Movement in Switzerland owes much to Mr Jorge Godinho who with his vast experience and great patience has been teaching and providing us with advice From 6th to 9th May we had

the great pleasure of having with us Haroldo Dutra a Spiritist speaker who travelled throughout Switzerland giving different talks and a short seminar With the election of the new board of directors of UCESS on 14th April 2013 Rejane Hostettler is now the director of UCESS and there are also 3 vice-directors Pedro Pereira Nelly Berchtold and Dilma Hambrock Rejane is doing a course on theology in Zurich and making Spiritism known amongst other religious denominations so that a new focus of work is being introduced

Two new Spiritist centres have been founded in this period CEBEM in Zurich (Kuumlsnacht) and GEFA in Bern (Zollikofen) In the Italian Switzerland we will be beginning a program of monthly

events in Italian in May (please see the poster) Most Spiritist centres have received a boost of new friends very knowledgeable in Spiritism joining these centres and are providing their help to the Spiritist movement with great motivation

Divaldo Franco spoke in Switzerland on 20th May 2013 in Zurich at G-19 a Spiritist institution In Winthertur at CEEAK he spoke on the following topic Rebellious Spirits and Peace For the Spiritist Centres in Switzerland please visit the website wwwspiritismech nellyberchtoldhotmailcom

UNION OF SPIRITIST STUDY CENTRES IN SWITZERLAND - UCESS

Members of the 10 Spiritist centres in Switzerland have been meeting regularly since

January 2013 for at least a week-end per month in the rural area of Berne to study the Spiritist doctrine Study a n d p r a c t i c e o f mediumship in the 1st half of the year and the Systematic Study of Spiritism is scheduled for 2nd half of the year This study promotes closer ties of friendship because of the study groups the shared

SWITZERLAND

CIVIL ASSOCIATION SOCRATES

We are working to legalise the Venezuelan Spiritist Federation Jose Vasquez L - ingjvasquezgmailcom

VENEZUELA URUGUAYAN SPIRITIST

FEDERATION - USF Seminar - Spiritual Assistance 60th Anniversary of Spiritist Centre Hacia la Verdad Organised by Spiritist Centre Hacia la Verdad Supported by Spiritist Assistance Department of the USF General Flores 4689 Info about the datehacialaverdadmontevideocom uyfeuruguaygmailcom wwwespiritismouruguaycom

URUGUAY

ISC NEWSLETTER no 48 16

SPIRITIST CENTRE LOVE

2 Groups Tallinn and Vosu Please write only in Esperanto Russian or Estonian to Mr August Kilk augustspiritismee

wwwspiritismee

ESTONIA

ALLAN KARDEC SPIRITIST GROUP

Please contact in Esperanto or Hungarian Szabadi Tibor satiborespgmailcom

HUNGARY

SPIRITISM IN FINLAND ALLAN KARDEC TYOumlRYHMAuml In April a talk on the Mediums Books was given in response to the invitation of the Spiritualist event held in Tampere

On 8th and 9th May the Spiritist movement in Finland had an invaluable help by Andrei Moreira on theme Depression from the Spiritist Perspective

The talks were held in Helsinki and Vaumlaumlksy and translated into Finnish We had 120 people who attended the event and apart from the organisers the audience was

100 Finnish It is with great joy that we inform that the Allan Kardec Tyoumlryhmauml ry (Allan Kardec Work Group) received their registration number from the Finnish authorities in May so becoming the first registered Spiritist association in Finland

We are always grateful for each seed of light which is sowed We hope to continue watering our garden of love

Contacts and information infoallankardecfi

infospiritismifi wwwspiritismifi

FINLAND

THE SPIRITIST MOVEMENT IN OTHER COUNTRIES

SPIRITISM IN BELARUS

The President of the Spiritist Group in Minsk (Belarusian Spiritist Group) is Andrei Latsinnik Vice-president Natalia Latsinnik and Spartak Severin is the contact for enquiries from other countries

The group is made up by 15 people From the translation into English or French the ISC newsletter is now also being translated into Russian by Spartak Severin Andrei and Natasha from the Spiritist Group of Minsk Please write only in English French Italian or Russian to spartak-severinyandexby httpbelarusspiritycom

BELARUS

2nd QUARTER 2013 17

Spiritism in Ecuador

In June an Executive Committee member of the ISC will be visiting Guayaquil to carry out tasks and Spiritist seminars organised by the South America Coordination Department

wwwespiritismoquitoblogspotcom

ECUADOR

UAE - UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

There are 3 Groups in the UAE The 3rd Meeting of Spiritist Philosophy of the Middle East took place on 23rd and 26th May with the participation of our dear friend Haroldo Dutra In February the Abu Dhabi Group organized the 6th Lecture Cycle for the 3 groups in the United Arab Emirates This time the guest speaker was

Anete Guimaraes httpespacodespertarblogspotcom

Cesar Augustus - GEEAD

contatogeeadgmailcom httpswwwfacebookcomgeeadabudhabi

Ana Elisa Vilhena ndash GECL -

grupoespiritacaminhodeluzgmailcom

ARAB EMIRATES

ALLAN KARDEC GROUP OF PRAGUE

27th May 2013 Prague

Seminar with Divaldo

Franco

Information allankardecseznamcz website in Czech wwwkardeccz

CZECH REPUBLIC

AUSTRALIA

Further information on the Spiritist Movement in some cities in Australia please visit the following website wwwallankardecsydneyorg allankardecsydneygmailcom

POLAND SPIRITISM IN WARSAW

Further information only in Polish on the website wwwspirytyzmpl konradspirytyzmpl wwwrivailpl

INTERNATIONAL SPIRITIST COUNCIL IN ARGENTINE

EDICEI at the 39th International Book Fair of

Buenos Aires

From 23rd April to 13th May 2013 as it always happened since 2009 the International Spiritist Council through Edicei Iberoamerica and under sponsored by the Argentine Spiritist Federation took part as an exhibitor in the 39th International Book Fair of Buenos Aires

50 countries 500 exhibitors took part in it and attracted 1200000 visitors On the stand more than 100 Spiritist books were on display including the basic works of the codification by Allan Kardec and the Spanish edition of the Spiritist Magazine of 1860 by Allan Kardec

After the event a sale of 455 books were registered including works of the following publishers namely Joanna de Angelis 18 de abril and the CEA

GLOBAL CAMPAIGN IN DEFENCE OF LIFE by the International Spiritist Council The artwork has been approved at the meeting in Havana Cuba It is made up of images in posters in different languages Artwork prepared by the team of the Portuguese Spiritist Federation To send the translation please email Helena on 7helenabbgmailcom Soon available in all languages on the ISC website wwwinterceicom

Spiritist Friend Please visit the website of the International Spiritist Council which is often updated httpceispiriteorges httpceispiriteorgpt httpceispiriteorg httpceispiriteorgfr wwwinterceicom

Page 4: INTERNATIONAL SPIRITIST COUNCIL · Divaldo spoke about mediumship, but with an initial approach that studied the characteristics of human beings and their different levels of consciousness

THE GERMAN SPIRITIST UNION

The so much anticipated seminar On the way to the Light with Haroldo Dutra Dias in Stuttgart at the headquarters GSU and SEELE Group was a success

Harold moved the more than 60 participants with his charisma and eloquence of knowledge Travelling on to Berlin he gave the same seminar to a larger audience

On 8th May 2013 Divaldo Franco started a new itinerary for his tour of dissemination of Spiritism in Europe The first city to welcome him was the beautiful Munich in the south of Germany Divaldo spoke about mediumship but with an initial approach that studied the characteristics of human beings and their different levels of consciousness Travelling to Stuttgart on 9th May 2013 Divaldo Franco gave a talk on the theme The Psychology of Gratitude at the Deutsche Vereinigung Spiritistiche (German Spiritist Union) to fully packed hall

On 10th May 2013 in Frankfurt he gave a talk with the theme Life in the Spiritual World and travelled to Bonn on 11th amp 12th May to coordinate a Spiritual Retreat Two hundred people attended the event listening to the theme Dawn of a new Era

Divaldo travelled to Bremen on 13th May and Mannheim on 15th May We know that wherever he goes he leaves a lesson of love and brotherhood

We would like to let you know that due to force majeure the Spiritist Educators for Children and Youth Training Course scheduled to be held on 15th amp 16th June 2013 in Stuttgart Germany has been moved to 15th amp 16th February 2014

Information wwwspiritismus-dsvde

kontaktspiritismus-dsvde

GERMANY

SPIRITIST SOCIETY ALLAN KARDEC OF ANGOLA

seakaangolagmailcom wwwseakaorg

ANGOLA

ARGENTINE SPIRITIST FEDERATION

Fraternal Gathering - 14th April 2013 Intersocietaria Espiacuterita (Spiritist Intersociety)

Lonquimay Santa Rosa (La Pampa)

On Sunday 14th April 203 a meeting of representatives of the Argentine Spiritist Federation and Intersocietaria Espiacuterita (Spiritist Intersociety) took place These organizations are made up by the following institutions Luz de la Pampa (Light of the Pampas) La Esperanza de Povernir (The Hope for the Future) Fundacioacuten de Estudio y Difusioacuten Espiacuterita (Foundation for the Spiritist Study and Dissemination) the last three of them being in the city of Santa Rosa Caridad Cristiana (Christian Charity) in Lonquimay Amor Fraternal (Fraternal Love) in the city of Carlos Tejedor and Saacuteenz Cortez in the city of Pehuajo

Their activities include Leaders meeting at the Christian Charity Spiritist Society Mr Gustavo Martinez the ASF chairman spoke on the theme Times have come in which he explained the Program of support to Spiritist Institutions for them to carry out their basic activities approved by the Federal Council of ASF as part of the 2012 - 2014 Action Plan which includes the creation of seven departments of work

Coordinator of Spiritual Assistance Department of the ASF and a member of the Spiritist Medical Association of Argentina Dr Daniel Gomes Montanelli spoke about the actual activities that a Spiritist centre can develop to care for people who seek support insight into and guidance on their spiritual and moral problems

In the afternoon we went to La Esperanza de Povernir Spiritist Centre in Santa Rosa where members of the Luz de la Pampa Spiritist Centre FEDE and Hacia la Fraternidad (On the way to Fraternity) Spiritist Centre were waiting for us

The meeting La Esperanza de Povernir in Santa Rosa Luz de la Pampa FEDE and Hacia la Fraternidad Welcome by Prof Mabel Rivas President of the host centre Conference by the Bachelor Daniel Gomes Montanelli on Thought and Health

Mr Eduardo de Elorriaga representing the Intersocietaria Espiacuterita said words of gratitude and handed to the representatives of the ASF a beautiful piece of engraved crystal as a memento of the meeting

Gustavo N Martinez ceaespiritistagmailcom wwwconfespirargcomar

ARGENTINA

ISC NEWSLETTER no 48 4

ASOCIACIOgraveN CIVIL DE PROYECCIOgraveN MORAL

infohondurasespiritaorg wwwhondurasespiritaorg

HONDURAS

BOLIVIAN SPIRITIST FEDERATION

Arrangements in progress for the BSF to take part in the 14th International Book Fair of Santa Cruz de la Sierra from 29th May to 9th June with the massive presence of publishers booksellers exhibitors writers and the general public The Spiritist works are being exhibited with much love and care by the team of volunteers from Spiritist centres of Santa Cruz and leaders of the BSF eduardonannicotascombo wwwfebolorg

BOLIVIA

BRAZILIAN SPIRITIST FEDERATION

FEB local actions

With meetings of the Central region (Palmas) in May and the North region (Porto Velho) in June the cycle of local meetings of the National Federative Council of FEB have been completed This has already been completed in the Northeast region in Jaboatao dos Guararapes Recife and in the South region in Embu das Artes Sao Paulo The meeting in the south area was attended by the Uruguayan Spiritist Federation with a team of eight participants and by the former FEB President Nestor Joao Masotti who received tributes from the current Presidents of FEB and USE-SP Subjects discussed included adjustments to the areas of work arrangements for the 4th Brazilian Spiritist Congress in 2014 arrangements for the joint meeting of Regional Committees of the National Federative Council of FEB in 2014 implementation of the Work Plan for the Brazilian Spiritist Movement (2013 to 2017) There were meetings held for the departments of Spiritual Assistance Mediumship Childhood and Youth Spiritist Social and Promotion Assistance Social Communication and Systematic Study of Spiritism At the end a seminar on Management of Federations had been developed attended by all groups and coordinated by the workers of the National Federative Council of FEB

Information cfnfebnetorgbr

FEB takes over the Spiritist Museum On the Spiritist Book day 18th April the Spiritist

Museum of Satildeo Paulo in the borough of Lapa was transferred to the Brazilian Spiritist Federation The

c e r e m o n y w a s attended by FEB President Antonio Cesar Perri de C a r v a l h o a n d directors Celia Maria Rey de Carvalho Joao Pinto Rabelo

and Niraldo Pulcineli the founders of the museum namely Paulo Machado and Elza Malzzonetto Machado the former FEB President Nestor Joao Masotti and his wife Maria Euny several collaborators of ICESP leaders and President of USE-SP Julia Nezu de Oliveira and journalists from the Spiritist press Mrs Elza M Machado the FEB President and the new coordinator of the Vieira de Melo Ocean Museum gave an address The

BRAZIL

ALLAN KARDEC - VAK Viena

Further information vakardecmsncom

Please visit us also on Facebook VAK-Wien vakardecmsncom wwwspiritismusat

AUSTRIA

2nd QUARTER 2013 5

Belgium Spiritist Union

Symposium 2013 - Organized by the Belgium Spiritist Union

25th amp 26th May 2013

Theme The importance of children in the world of

tomorrow

Venue Weacutegimont Castle 4630 Soumagne (20km away

from Liege)

Full programme on

httpwwwspiritebeimagesaffichesprog-sympopdf usbspiritebe wwwspiritebe

BELGIUM

Museum in due course will undergo some rearrangements and carry on its normal activities thereafter Information diretoriafebnetorgbr

Book Exhibition at the House of Representatives (Cacircmara dos Deputados)

The Spiritist Book for a new World was the title of the exhibition which took place from 15th to 30th April at the House of Representatives It was an initiative by the Member of the House of Representatives Marco A Ubiali with production by the Brazilian Spiritist Federation The inauguration was attended by the President of the FEB the Vice-President and a few members of the House of Representatives The major works by the FEB Publisher of Allan Kardec and Chico Xavier which are landmarks of Spiritism also historic articles and materials such as Chicos birth certificate as well as videos depicting the works and personalities of Spiritist were on display

Information diretoriafebnetorgbr

Releases and reprinting of books by FEB FEB Publisher has re-published and released dozens of books In May The new Testament translated by Haroldo Dutra Dias was released with the texts by the four Evangelists and Acts of the Apostles About the book at FEB Portal Nowadays the works of FEB Publisher with updated layout and

covers which the readers like are be ing w ide l y distributed At the same time book production and distribution are being modernized to better cater for the needs of the

modern world At international level FEB has always published a number of books in Esperanto and some in French In recent years it has licensed the translation of several titles to Editoras Mensaje Fraternal (Fraternal Message Publisher) in Venezuela to IDE Editora and EDICEI This assured a wide propagation of Spiritism in Spanish and enabled the International Spiritist Council to have publications available in over a dozen languages Information wwwfergsorgbr wwwfebnetorgbr httpwwwfebnetorgbrblogtopicogeralcolunistascesar-perri

CANADIAN SPIRITIST COUNCIL

secretarycanadianspiritistcouncilcom wwwcanadianspiritistcouncilcom

CANADA

THE COLOMBIAN SPIRITIST

FEDERATION

Regional Meetings

The Colombian Spiritist movement legally supported by national constitution is holding Regional Meetings complying with the law for the

election of its Council of Directors particularly the nine affiliated Federations and their respective Spiritist centres

Annual General Meeting of the Colombian Spiritist Federation (CONFECOL)

On 10th May CONFECOL the entity that governs Spiritism in our country elected its new National Federative Council The members elected for the period 2013 to 2016 were as follows President Mr Jorge Ramoacuten Berrio Bustillo General Secretary Mr Luis Fernando Vargas Lozano Managing amp Finance Director Mr German T Espinosa Finance Supervisor Mr Emiro Navarro Deputy Finance Supervisor Mr Francisco Ariza Inspector Mr Jorge Francisco Leoacuten

Deputy Inspector Axel Rhenals Turriago The target for this period is to continue the 3rd

phase of Unification

Gathering for National Unification

On 12th May all federations of the country have been called to Bogota to carry out the last arrangements in the departments of Social Assistance and Promotion

and that of Family Childhood and Youth These are topics worked on in parallel at the Senderos da la Esperanza (Workers of Hope) and Tercera Revelacioacuten (Third Revelation) Spiritist Institutions

wwwconfecolorg secretariogeneralconfecolorg

COLOMBIA

ISC NEWSLETTER no 48 6

UNIVERSAL LOVE AND CHARITY

SOCIETY

The website wwwcubaespiritaorg has an event summary of the whole 7th World Spiritist Congress and all activities at Spiritist Centres in Cuba This will be the official website of Cuban Spiritists Received by Manuel de la Cruz lacruzmannyaolcom

CUBA

SPIRITIST STUDY CENTRE BUENA NUEVA

Besides their weekly activities the CEEBN participated in the 7th World Spiritist Congress held in Cuba

The Annual General Meeting for the election of the new board of directors for 2013 and 2014 was held in March

A Seminar and other Spiritist activities in August will be held by Dr Andrei Moreira from Brazil Odete Letelier espiritismoespiritismocl wwwespiritismocl

CHILE

SPANISH SPIRITIST FEDERATION

The issue 5 of the Spiritist Magazine of the Spanish Spiritist Federation has just been released It is covers the propagation of Spiritist culture and is

SPAIN

UNITED STATES SPIRITIST COUNCIL

On 20th April 2013 the 7th US Spiritist Symposium was held in the city of Dallas Texas The event takes place once a year and is supported and attended by the National Spiritist movement Each year on Sunday following the Symposium which takes place on Saturday the Annual General Meeting of the US Spiritist Council (USSC) is held and attended by the leaders of Spiritist Groups from various parts of the country

This year the Symposium started with an opening ceremony that included all board members of the USSC going onto stage and paying a tribute to the United States as a nation which guarantees complete freedom of religious expression to its citizens unlike what is happening in many other countries At the opening the USSC President also

UNITED STATES

SPIRITIST FEDERATION OF EL SALVADOR

8 Spiritist centres affiliated to the SFS Ciacuterculo de Investigaciones Psicofiacutesicas Sociedad Siacutequico Filosoacutefico Espiritual El Mesiacuteas La Verdad es para Todos Spiritist Centre Faro del Saber Spiritist Centre Virgilio Manzanares Pentildea Spiritist Centre Sociedad de Mediums Spiritist Centre Juan Diego de Guadalupe Spiritist Centre El Buen Amigo Spiritist Centre

Rosa Amelia Campos

federacionelsalvadorespiritaorg

EL SALVADOR

called for a minute of silence for all the victims affected by the terrorist event in Boston and by the disaster which happened at a chemical plant in Texas lsquoWe are extremely blessed to being able to live in a country like

the United States of Americarsquo said USSC President Mauricio Cisneros The event continued with lectures in one hall and short training seminars for Spiritist workers in another The event was closed by a representative of the Spiritist movement of Illinois when he made an invitation to the next Symposium of 2014 in Chicago Further details are available at

wwwspiritistsymposiumorg wwwspiritistus infospiritistus

2nd QUARTER 2013 7

positive feedback from lay readers and also resulted in the creation of many websites about Chico Xavier in the Spiritualist environment

The FSC continues to collaborate with the publishing of the Revue Spirite (Spiritist Magazine) in French which has been distributed at the 7th World Spiritist Congress and the ISC Annual General Meeting in Havana

The first Spiritist book for children in French has been published by Librairie Spirite Francophone in Quebec It is the result of a wide co-operation at Francophone level with the Committee for Moral Education of the Coordination Department of Europe with illustrations by Claudia Milena Werdine Alborghetti and translated by Marcia Kempf The book can be purchased at Amazon

On 9th March 2013 a local meeting of Southeast groups took place in Arles and on 28th April 2013 an E a s t e r n F r a n c e gathering took place in Hielle with a seminar on Healing run by Rosenite Alves On 30th March 2013 a seminar in Brittany run by Alirio Cerqueira Filho on mental energy

and self-healing took place On 25th amp 26th May the annual Symposium took place at the Wegimont Castle in Belgium On 8th and 9th June a local Southeast meeting will take place in Denice and on 22nd and 23rd June a local Northern meeting will be held in Lievain

Further information wwwspiritismeorg

the official publication of the Spanish Spiritist Federation and has an article dedicated to the History of Spiritism in the world

Themes developed in this issue include from precursors such as Swendborg Jackson Davis and the Fox sisters and moving on to the Spiritist revelation codified by Allan Kardec the Society of Spiritist Studies of Paris and the Revue Spirite (The Spiritist Magazine)It also included articles on the dedicated work of the mediums of the second half of the 19th century Arthur Conan Doyle and an overview of Spiritism as it stands in the world today

It featured the great work of propagation started by the Spiritist Magazine of the Spanish Spiritist Federation through the Propagation Committee with the distribution of the magazine to many universities libraries and cultural centres mainly in Madrid Castilla-La Mancha and Castilla-Leon This magazine focused primarily on the dissemination to non-Spiritist individuals trying to reclaim the space that Spiritist proposes to better understand and face the difficulties people encounter in this world of trials and regeneration

Also the speaker Haroldo Dutra a Judge from the state of Minas Gerais made a tour of Madrid Valencia and Alicante from 15th to 17th May 2013 giving talks and holding meetings

Healing through Forgiveness and The new Era were some of the themes spoken during his tour through several European countries to promote Spiritism

infoespiritismocc wwwespiritismocc

FRENCH SPIRITIST COUNCIL

The French Spiritist Council (FSC) was represented at the 7th World Spiritist Congress and Annual General Meeting of the ISC in Havana by Luc Moussu and Charles Kempf They are making the arrangements to launch a new campaign Amar a Vida (Loving Life) promoted by the ISC and carried out by the Portuguese Spiritist Federation The material has been translated into French and will be shown on the cover of next issue of the Voie Spirite (Spiritist Way) newsletter (cover on the left-hand side)

The FSC in co-operation with LMSF keeps promoting books with large stock at EDICEI in Brasilia which are being sold as second hand for 990 Euros This has been bringing not only income to the ISC and the French speaking movement but also greatly increasing the dissemination of the works of Andre Luiz in France It has attracted much

FRANCE

Executive Committee of ISC

General Secretary Charles Kempf (France) 1st Secretary A Cesar Perri de Carvalho (Brazil) 2nd Secretary Elsa Rossi (United Kingdom) 1st Treasurer Roberto Versiani ( Brazil) 2nd Treasurer Jean-Paul Evrard (Belgium) Eduardo Santos (Uruguay) Edwin Bravo (Guatemala) Faacutebio Villarraga (Colombia) Jussara Korngold (USA) Milciades Lezcano ( Paraguay) Vitor Mora Feria ( Portugal) Salvador Martin ( Spain)

ISC NEWSLETTER no 48 8

DUTCH SPIRITIST COUNCIL

Events promoted by the Dutch Spiritist Council

Haroldo Dutra Dias Theme Paul amp Stephen amp the Parables of Jesus

19th May 2013 from 1pm to 6pm Tel 0630 050 947 with Rikeli or

0651 085 180 with Rosana grupoespiritaemanuelhotmailcom

Divaldo Pereira Franco Theme Psychology of Gratitude 22nd May 7 to 9 pm Venue Florence Steenvoorde

Building Generaal Spoorlaan 62 ndash 2285 CH - Rijswijk

Enrolment by e-mail infonrspnl Contact 0645 267 902 with

Maria Moraes

Iris and Claudio Sinoti 1st theme The Psychology of Love 29th May 730 pm to 930 pm Address Hembrugstraat 156 - 2nd floor

1013 XC Amsterdam Enrolment by e-mail infonrspnl Contact 0645 267 902 with Maria Moraes or

0644 357 538 with Nilson 2nd theme Reflecting the soul the Spiritist

Psychology of Joanna de Angelis 30th May 8pm to 10pm Venue Stichting Muzenis

Cliffordstraat 38 1051 GV Amsterdam

Enrolment svjangelisgmailcom Contact 0615 091 659 with Dalva

12th National Spiritist Meeting Speakers Charles Kempf Claudia Werdine and

Milena Alborghetti Theme Happiness from a Spiritist viewpoint Date Sunday 25th August 2013 Address Hembrugstraat 156 - 2nd floor 1013 XC Amsterdam Contact Maria Moraes - nrspiritismeyahoocombr

amp infonrspnl

4th Congress on Medicine amp Spirituality Date Saturday 12th October 2013 Venue Florence Steenvoorde Building Address Generaal Spoorlaan 62 2285 CH - Rijswijk Contact Maria Moraes - infonrspnl

nrspevenementengmailcom Full information available soon For further information please visit the Dutch Spiritist Council website at wwwnrspnl Maria Moraesinfonrspnl

HOLLAND

Excellent quality and quantity of Spiritist Courses and Conferences available on the

website of TV CEI Have you already visited it

wwwtvceicom

THE FRANCISCAN SPIRITIST CENTRE

infojoanadecusaorgau wwwjoanadecusaorgau For further information please see page 17

AUSTRALIA

CADENA HELIOSOPHICA GUATEMALTECA

A quarterly talk by the Cadeia Heliosophica Guatemalteca (Guatemalan Philosophical Study Network) took place on 27th April 203 in Joya Cuilco Huehuetenango district in Guatemala propagating the teachings of the codification of Allan Kardec providing

medical care and handing out of free medicines moral education for children and youth and a talk for over 900 brothers and sisters from different villages who arrived by lorry or on foot to listen to the teachings of the Master Jesus The board of directors also met to arrange the next quarterly conference which will take place on 27th July in the village of Ninchim San Marcos with Alipio Gonzalez who will be coming from Venezuela

It has been reported that Spiritist centre of the village of Tuimuca joined the Guatemalan Philosophical Study

Network On the first Sunday of each month the Grupo de Damas Heliosophicas Rogelia Marroquin de Bravo (Group of Ladies of Philosophical Study Network Rogelia Marroquin de Bravo) organizes a breakfast lecture for the benefit of the Charity and Light School at a restaurant in the city centre and on Sunday 5th May Mothers Day had

been successfully celebrated Edwin Bravo wwwguatespiritaorg

GUATEMALA

2nd QUARTER 2013 9

THE PORTUGUESE SPIRITIST

FEDERATION

Spiritist Culture Gathering

The Association of Propagators of Spiritism of Portugal APSP held the 9th Spiritist Culture Gathering on 20th and 21st April 2013 at the municipal hall A Casa da Muacutesica (The Music Hall) in the beautiful town of Obidos again with a full house The overall feeling was that of satisfaction for getting together and exchanging knowledge

Contacts wwwadeportugalorgjornadas

Training for Workers

Saturday 11th May 2013 from 3 to 5 pm at the Portuguese Spiritist Federations headquarters a workshop on accountancy for Spiritist Workers took place

Spiritist Gathering of Algarve

The Spiritist Gathering of Algarve organized by the Nuacutecleo Familiar Espiacuterita do Mentor Amigo (Spiritist Family Centre of the Friend Mentor) took place on Sunday 12th May 2013 at the Eva Hotel in Faro It was a time of glad getting together and exchange of knowledge

Contact 965 053 743 nfe_mentoramigosapopt

Seminar by Iris and Claudio Sinoti

On 19th May the Portuguese Spiritist Federation held at its headquarters a seminar on topics related to psychology addressed in the book Refletindo a Alma (Reflecting the Soul) and others from the psychological works of the Spirit of Joanna de Angelis Iris and Claudio Sinotti who are workers from the Mansatildeo do Caminho (Mansion of the Way) Bahia joined us in the event

Contacts geralfeportuguesapt

Health and Light Project

The 3rd Light and Health Project where topics related to physical mental and spiritual health will be discussed is being organized by the Allan Kardec

PORTUGAL ITALIAN SPIRITIST UNION

The Italian Spiritist Union through its President Regina Piccoli informs that they have all the slides of the Systematic Study of Spiritism volume I and II translated into Italian They are completing the review to draw up a booklet as a complement to the study of the classes Info italiausigmailcom

ITALY

SPIRITIST FRATERNITY GOD LOVE amp CHARITY

Saturday 16th March 2013 - Self-discovery

Seminar - with the active participation of speakers Dr Andrei Moreira from Brazil Prof Jose Angel Velasquez from El Salvador Dr Edwin Bravo and Prof Johana Bravo from Guatemala and Dr Maria de la Gracia Ender from Panama The photos of the seminar are on Fedac Facebook at wwwfedacorgpa We had an audience of 200 people with a great interest by the participants

2 Active participation at the 7th World Spiritist Congress with a Fedac delegation of 15 people among Spiritists and accompanying people

3 We are now facing a temporary difficulty with the moving to new premises The venue we had for 26 years is being sold and we have to vacate the property

We are still looking for a place to move to within our budget

Dr Maria de la Gracia Ender wwwfedacorgpa fedacpanamahotmailcom

PANAMA

PARAGUAY SPIRITIST CENTRE

The 10th Spiritist Week in Paraguay took place and was organised by the Paraguayan Spiritist Federacion

On 13th 14th and 15th September the 2nd South American Spiritist Congress took place in

Asuncion centroespiritaparaguayo_cepariedernetpy

PARAGUAY

ISC NEWSLETTER no 48 10

SPIRITIST UNION OF MOZAMBIQUE

The Spiritist Union of Mozambique was integrated to the International Spiritist Council during the Annual General Meeting in Cuba President Elide Carneiro Address Av Alfredo Keil 12 ndash Maputo Mobile +25 8844 613 251 unemomozgmailcom

wwwfacebookcomCEAKMZ

MOZAMBIQUE

MEXICAN SPIRITIST FEDERATION

The Mexican Federation of Spiritist Associations reports the activities below Federacioacuten Espiacuterita de Tamaulipas y las Huastecas (Spiritist Federation of Tamaulipas and the Huastecas) FETH

21st December 2012 talk and presentation of Spiritist poems by Spiritist youngsters in Valles S a n L u i s Potosi at the 1 8 t h anniversary of the Tomasito Herrera Spiritist Centre 21st to 23rd December 2012 talks and f e l l o w s h i p gathering of the Spiritist centres

of Mante Tamaulipas 1st January 2013 meeting of leaders of the FETH groups and fraternal gatherings January and February 2013 the official setup of t h e C o o r d i n a t i o n Department of Spiritist Centres from the Central Nor thwes t W estern Eastern Southeast regions of the country affiliated to the Mexican Federation of

Spiritist Associations local meeting of Spiritist centres in Mante and seminars held with the theme Death Spiritual Colonies Mental Irradiation and Spiritist Healing Celebration of 70th Anniversary de Spiritist Centre Love Light and Truth from Mante Anniversary de Spiritist Centre Love Light and Truth from Mante local report on the 7th International S p i r i t i s t C o n g r e s s participation in the meeting of the International Spiritist Council

MEXICO

meeting to strengthen and unify centres affiliated to the Federation and related institutions in the cities

of Valles Victoria Tampico Mante Pueblo Viejo Veracruz workshops held on Spiritist healing and fraternal assistance in the south of Veracruz and Tlaxcala

19th April interview about Spiritism and mediumship for the Radio Net 1060 AM group from the city of Juarez Chihuahua on 19th April

2013 Setting up of Spiritist Study Groups in Tabasco Quintana Roo Guadalajara and Sonora

Jorge Camargo jorgecamargozuritagmailcom

espiritismoenmexicohotmailcom

wwwespiritismoenmexicoorg

2nd QUARTER 2013 11

The meeting of CEICA took place with the presence of Mexico Panama and Honduras

CEYCA coordinator Dr Edwin Bravo

with Divaldo Franco and Patricia Rodriguez from the

Tamaulip Federation

Talk by Jorge Zurita at the

Congress in Cuba

THE SPIRITIST CHRISTIAN COMMUNION FRANCISCO CANDIDO XAVIER

wwwspiritismjp

JAPAN

GEEAK - NORWAY

The GEEAK Oslo continues to develop its

activities at the following address Dronningens gt

23 room 512 City Centre Oslo

Study of The Spirits books on Wednesdays at

6pm

Meimei Group (children and parents) on every

Saturday at 1230pm

Jussara Korngold was in Oslo for the second time

giving a talk at the Oslo Literature Hall on 14th

February 2013 with the theme Boosting your inner

Power

Spiritist Studies in Norway

Euripides Barsanulfo Spiritist Group - Bergen

Study of The Spirits book and the Gospel according

to Spiritism on Sundays from 730 to 9pm -

Information spiritismeibergengmailcom

Chico Xavier Spiritist Group - Trondheim

Meetings Wednesdays from 615 to 715pm

Contact spiritismentrondheimgmailcom

Bernt Torstenson Spiritist Study Group - Oslo

Meetings in Norwegian on Wednesdays from 1 to 2

pm Fredrikkebygget (UiO - Universitetet i Oslo

Blindern - Oslo) next to the Fredrikke Kapell

Contact sssbernttorstensongmailcom

Paul of Tarsus Spiritist Group Stavanger

Virtual meetings on Wednesdays from 730 to 9pm

Contact gepstavangergmailcom

httpspiritismestavangerblogspotno

postgeeaknorgecom

wwwgeeaknorgecom

NORWAY SPIRITIST SOCIETY

OF IRELAND

Andrei Moreira gave a talk in Dublin on 15th May 2013 on the theme Self Love a Healing Path

Divaldo Franco will be again in Dublin with the talk Mediumship Challenges and Blessings

on 11th June 2013 On 23rd May 2013 a talk by Sergio Thiesen Information sbertozzogmailcom

wwwallankardec-irelandorg

REPUBLIC OF IRELAND

ISC NEWSLETTER no48 12

GEEAK- LUXEMBOURG

Allan Kardec Spiritist Group of Luxembourg

You are all invited for a conference by Divaldo Pereira Franco on the theme Psychology of Gratitude Friday 7th June 2013 730pm to 1030pm Centre Socieacutetaire 29 rue de Strasbourg L-2560 - Luxembourg - Gare allankardecluxyahoofr wwwgroupespiriteallankardecluxcom

LUXEMBOURG

SPIRITIST FEDERATION OF PERU

The conference by Luis Hu took place in March

feperu_espiritayahoocom httpperuespiritablogspotcom

PERU

ALLAN KARDEC SPIRITIST GROUP - NZ

infoallankardecorgnz

httpallankardecorgnz

NEW ZEALAND

Study Group and AME GEEAK the Spiritist Medical Doctors Association of Coimbra

Contacts wwwgeeakpt

23rd Spiritist Gathering

of Lisbon

At the CEPC Centro Espiacuterita Perdatildeo e Caridade (Forgiveness and Charity Spiritist Centre) The themes are based on the book by Joanna de Angelis entitled Constelaccedilatildeo Familiar (Family

Constellation) From 10am to 5pm

With the participation of the Lisbon Spiritist Music Group and Choir and the Jogral Espiacuterita de Lisboa (Lisbon Spiritist Minstrel) as well as he participation of the DIJ of CEPC

Contacts wwwceperdaoecaridadept

June 17th CONCESP

The National Gathering of Spiritist Children will take place this year in Lisbon on 1st June From 1030 am to 430 pm at the Pousada da Juventude do Parque das Naccedilotildees with the theme Once upon a time the birds of heaven We look forward to seeing you with a lot of disposition and willingness in participating

Enrolment Forms concesp2013gmailcom

httpdijfeportuguesaptconcesp2013

Spiritist Meeting of Alentejo

On Sunday 2nd June from 10am to 6pm the Spiritist Meeting of Alentejo 2013 will take place at the D Fernando Hotel in Evora with the theme Spiritism in Alentejo

Contacts

cefeevoragmailcom

Cultural Spiritist

Meeting 2013

The Cultural Spiritist Meeting 2013 will be dedicated to the theme of The Portuguese Spiritist Movement and

2nd QUARTER 2013 13

will take place on Sunday 30th June from 2pm at its headquarters in Amadora Get to know better the history of the Portuguese Spiritist Movement See you there

Contacts wwwfeportuguesapt

Tel 214 975 754

geralfeportuguesapt

Featured

The Portuguese Spiritist Congress 2013

It will be held in Leiria at the premises of the Spiritist Association of Leiria on 16th amp 17th November under the theme of Mediumship a vision of the future We should point out that the hall has limited capacity so it is recommended that you book your place early

Contacts wwwfeportuguesapt

Please book your place by sending an email to

congressoespiritaportugues2013gmailcom

If you have any queries please dont hesitate to contact us

wwwfeportuguesapt

fepinformafeportuguesapt

focused on the same target which was to touching the soul of every one present in the huge audience awakening in those who were seeking knowledge a new opportunity for a new re-beginning Soon the videos of the talks will be available on Youtube Further information on the BUSS website below Article by Ana Marques

coordinator of Guiding Light Spiritist Society in Canterbury UK Photos Guilherme Almeida Future events in June in UK

Divaldo Franco on 9th June in London 10th June in Glasgow Therezinha Oliveira 23rd June to 30th June Talks in London and Wokingham

All posters and information are available on the BUSS website wwwbussorguk

busseventsgmailcom

BUSS - BRITISH UNION OF SPIRITIST SOCIETIES

2nd British Spiritist Congress Celebrating 30 Years of Spiritism

in the United Kingdom

With the main theme A new Era and the Dawning of a new Humanity the 2nd British Spiritist Congress held on 11th and 12th May 2013 at the main hall of the Quakers Friends House in London and organised by BUSS was a success Participants from 14 different countries were present namely France Norway Denmark Sweden Switzerland Japan Portugal Republic of Ireland Czech Republic Brazil Liechtenstein Germany Australia and Serbia During both Saturday and Sunday a total of 248 people enrolled for the event and were able to enjoy 15 talks offered by 13 speakers Charles Kempf General Secretary of the ISC Harold Dutra Dias Dr Andrei Moreira Speakers present from the UK Janet Duncan President of Allan Kardec Study Group - Centre for Spiritist Teachings London completing 30 years of foundation Guy Lyon Playfair Anne Christine Sinclair Silvia Gibbons Denise Ferrett Maria Gomes Davian Jessamy Elizabeth Freire Stevanin Tania and Tanya Moore

The event was hosted by Christopher Kinghorn There was a musical performance by Diego Carneiro p l a y i n g c e l l o s op r ano Maya Sapone and Martino Scovacricchi playing saxophone

Mark ing 30 years of Spiritism in the UK Janet Duncan founder of the Spiritist Movement in England gave a opening speech about the Pathway

to Enlightenment The event was broadcast worldwide through TVCEI (wwwtvceicom) and the talks were further broadcast by the Fraternity Radio and Good News Radio of

Brazil This great event focused primarily on bringing

together hearts and souls and also stressing the importance of diversity in our lives

13 speakers each one with their own different way of speaking and expressing themselves but

UNITED KINGDOM

ISC NEWSLETTER no48 14

THE SWEDISH SPIRITIST UNION

On 24th and 25th May Divaldo Pereira Franco was once again in Scandinavia This time in Gothenburg Sweden in a gathering with local Spiritist groups This year our companions from Finland also attended the event The eminent propagator of Spiritism gave a public talk in this city which was translated into Swedish and also a Seminar with the Spiritist Groups present

The Paring Vaumlgen till ljuset Spiritist Group and

the Leon Denis Spiritist Study Centre in Stockholm took part by selling Spiritist books and distributing messages at the Harmony Fair in Stockholm on 23rd and 24th last March It has been noticed during the Fair that people had a growing interest on the Spiritist Doctrine and its foundations

At the Vatumannen Bookstore in Stockholm Spiritist books continue to be sold and information leaflets on Spiritism distributed

The Leon Denis Spiritist Study Centre in

Stockholm is completing the study of the book Efter Doumlden (After Death) by Leon Denis which has already been translated into Swedish

Information spiritismensegmailcom

wwwgsfallankardecblogspotcom

wwwspiritismencom

httpspiritistiskaforbundetblogspotcouk

SWEDEN

2nd QUARTER 2013 15

accommodation and closer contact with people who normally would only have superficial contact one to each other at major events The Spirit Movement in Switzerland owes much to Mr Jorge Godinho who with his vast experience and great patience has been teaching and providing us with advice From 6th to 9th May we had

the great pleasure of having with us Haroldo Dutra a Spiritist speaker who travelled throughout Switzerland giving different talks and a short seminar With the election of the new board of directors of UCESS on 14th April 2013 Rejane Hostettler is now the director of UCESS and there are also 3 vice-directors Pedro Pereira Nelly Berchtold and Dilma Hambrock Rejane is doing a course on theology in Zurich and making Spiritism known amongst other religious denominations so that a new focus of work is being introduced

Two new Spiritist centres have been founded in this period CEBEM in Zurich (Kuumlsnacht) and GEFA in Bern (Zollikofen) In the Italian Switzerland we will be beginning a program of monthly

events in Italian in May (please see the poster) Most Spiritist centres have received a boost of new friends very knowledgeable in Spiritism joining these centres and are providing their help to the Spiritist movement with great motivation

Divaldo Franco spoke in Switzerland on 20th May 2013 in Zurich at G-19 a Spiritist institution In Winthertur at CEEAK he spoke on the following topic Rebellious Spirits and Peace For the Spiritist Centres in Switzerland please visit the website wwwspiritismech nellyberchtoldhotmailcom

UNION OF SPIRITIST STUDY CENTRES IN SWITZERLAND - UCESS

Members of the 10 Spiritist centres in Switzerland have been meeting regularly since

January 2013 for at least a week-end per month in the rural area of Berne to study the Spiritist doctrine Study a n d p r a c t i c e o f mediumship in the 1st half of the year and the Systematic Study of Spiritism is scheduled for 2nd half of the year This study promotes closer ties of friendship because of the study groups the shared

SWITZERLAND

CIVIL ASSOCIATION SOCRATES

We are working to legalise the Venezuelan Spiritist Federation Jose Vasquez L - ingjvasquezgmailcom

VENEZUELA URUGUAYAN SPIRITIST

FEDERATION - USF Seminar - Spiritual Assistance 60th Anniversary of Spiritist Centre Hacia la Verdad Organised by Spiritist Centre Hacia la Verdad Supported by Spiritist Assistance Department of the USF General Flores 4689 Info about the datehacialaverdadmontevideocom uyfeuruguaygmailcom wwwespiritismouruguaycom

URUGUAY

ISC NEWSLETTER no 48 16

SPIRITIST CENTRE LOVE

2 Groups Tallinn and Vosu Please write only in Esperanto Russian or Estonian to Mr August Kilk augustspiritismee

wwwspiritismee

ESTONIA

ALLAN KARDEC SPIRITIST GROUP

Please contact in Esperanto or Hungarian Szabadi Tibor satiborespgmailcom

HUNGARY

SPIRITISM IN FINLAND ALLAN KARDEC TYOumlRYHMAuml In April a talk on the Mediums Books was given in response to the invitation of the Spiritualist event held in Tampere

On 8th and 9th May the Spiritist movement in Finland had an invaluable help by Andrei Moreira on theme Depression from the Spiritist Perspective

The talks were held in Helsinki and Vaumlaumlksy and translated into Finnish We had 120 people who attended the event and apart from the organisers the audience was

100 Finnish It is with great joy that we inform that the Allan Kardec Tyoumlryhmauml ry (Allan Kardec Work Group) received their registration number from the Finnish authorities in May so becoming the first registered Spiritist association in Finland

We are always grateful for each seed of light which is sowed We hope to continue watering our garden of love

Contacts and information infoallankardecfi

infospiritismifi wwwspiritismifi

FINLAND

THE SPIRITIST MOVEMENT IN OTHER COUNTRIES

SPIRITISM IN BELARUS

The President of the Spiritist Group in Minsk (Belarusian Spiritist Group) is Andrei Latsinnik Vice-president Natalia Latsinnik and Spartak Severin is the contact for enquiries from other countries

The group is made up by 15 people From the translation into English or French the ISC newsletter is now also being translated into Russian by Spartak Severin Andrei and Natasha from the Spiritist Group of Minsk Please write only in English French Italian or Russian to spartak-severinyandexby httpbelarusspiritycom

BELARUS

2nd QUARTER 2013 17

Spiritism in Ecuador

In June an Executive Committee member of the ISC will be visiting Guayaquil to carry out tasks and Spiritist seminars organised by the South America Coordination Department

wwwespiritismoquitoblogspotcom

ECUADOR

UAE - UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

There are 3 Groups in the UAE The 3rd Meeting of Spiritist Philosophy of the Middle East took place on 23rd and 26th May with the participation of our dear friend Haroldo Dutra In February the Abu Dhabi Group organized the 6th Lecture Cycle for the 3 groups in the United Arab Emirates This time the guest speaker was

Anete Guimaraes httpespacodespertarblogspotcom

Cesar Augustus - GEEAD

contatogeeadgmailcom httpswwwfacebookcomgeeadabudhabi

Ana Elisa Vilhena ndash GECL -

grupoespiritacaminhodeluzgmailcom

ARAB EMIRATES

ALLAN KARDEC GROUP OF PRAGUE

27th May 2013 Prague

Seminar with Divaldo

Franco

Information allankardecseznamcz website in Czech wwwkardeccz

CZECH REPUBLIC

AUSTRALIA

Further information on the Spiritist Movement in some cities in Australia please visit the following website wwwallankardecsydneyorg allankardecsydneygmailcom

POLAND SPIRITISM IN WARSAW

Further information only in Polish on the website wwwspirytyzmpl konradspirytyzmpl wwwrivailpl

INTERNATIONAL SPIRITIST COUNCIL IN ARGENTINE

EDICEI at the 39th International Book Fair of

Buenos Aires

From 23rd April to 13th May 2013 as it always happened since 2009 the International Spiritist Council through Edicei Iberoamerica and under sponsored by the Argentine Spiritist Federation took part as an exhibitor in the 39th International Book Fair of Buenos Aires

50 countries 500 exhibitors took part in it and attracted 1200000 visitors On the stand more than 100 Spiritist books were on display including the basic works of the codification by Allan Kardec and the Spanish edition of the Spiritist Magazine of 1860 by Allan Kardec

After the event a sale of 455 books were registered including works of the following publishers namely Joanna de Angelis 18 de abril and the CEA

GLOBAL CAMPAIGN IN DEFENCE OF LIFE by the International Spiritist Council The artwork has been approved at the meeting in Havana Cuba It is made up of images in posters in different languages Artwork prepared by the team of the Portuguese Spiritist Federation To send the translation please email Helena on 7helenabbgmailcom Soon available in all languages on the ISC website wwwinterceicom

Spiritist Friend Please visit the website of the International Spiritist Council which is often updated httpceispiriteorges httpceispiriteorgpt httpceispiriteorg httpceispiriteorgfr wwwinterceicom

Page 5: INTERNATIONAL SPIRITIST COUNCIL · Divaldo spoke about mediumship, but with an initial approach that studied the characteristics of human beings and their different levels of consciousness

ASOCIACIOgraveN CIVIL DE PROYECCIOgraveN MORAL

infohondurasespiritaorg wwwhondurasespiritaorg

HONDURAS

BOLIVIAN SPIRITIST FEDERATION

Arrangements in progress for the BSF to take part in the 14th International Book Fair of Santa Cruz de la Sierra from 29th May to 9th June with the massive presence of publishers booksellers exhibitors writers and the general public The Spiritist works are being exhibited with much love and care by the team of volunteers from Spiritist centres of Santa Cruz and leaders of the BSF eduardonannicotascombo wwwfebolorg

BOLIVIA

BRAZILIAN SPIRITIST FEDERATION

FEB local actions

With meetings of the Central region (Palmas) in May and the North region (Porto Velho) in June the cycle of local meetings of the National Federative Council of FEB have been completed This has already been completed in the Northeast region in Jaboatao dos Guararapes Recife and in the South region in Embu das Artes Sao Paulo The meeting in the south area was attended by the Uruguayan Spiritist Federation with a team of eight participants and by the former FEB President Nestor Joao Masotti who received tributes from the current Presidents of FEB and USE-SP Subjects discussed included adjustments to the areas of work arrangements for the 4th Brazilian Spiritist Congress in 2014 arrangements for the joint meeting of Regional Committees of the National Federative Council of FEB in 2014 implementation of the Work Plan for the Brazilian Spiritist Movement (2013 to 2017) There were meetings held for the departments of Spiritual Assistance Mediumship Childhood and Youth Spiritist Social and Promotion Assistance Social Communication and Systematic Study of Spiritism At the end a seminar on Management of Federations had been developed attended by all groups and coordinated by the workers of the National Federative Council of FEB

Information cfnfebnetorgbr

FEB takes over the Spiritist Museum On the Spiritist Book day 18th April the Spiritist

Museum of Satildeo Paulo in the borough of Lapa was transferred to the Brazilian Spiritist Federation The

c e r e m o n y w a s attended by FEB President Antonio Cesar Perri de C a r v a l h o a n d directors Celia Maria Rey de Carvalho Joao Pinto Rabelo

and Niraldo Pulcineli the founders of the museum namely Paulo Machado and Elza Malzzonetto Machado the former FEB President Nestor Joao Masotti and his wife Maria Euny several collaborators of ICESP leaders and President of USE-SP Julia Nezu de Oliveira and journalists from the Spiritist press Mrs Elza M Machado the FEB President and the new coordinator of the Vieira de Melo Ocean Museum gave an address The

BRAZIL

ALLAN KARDEC - VAK Viena

Further information vakardecmsncom

Please visit us also on Facebook VAK-Wien vakardecmsncom wwwspiritismusat

AUSTRIA

2nd QUARTER 2013 5

Belgium Spiritist Union

Symposium 2013 - Organized by the Belgium Spiritist Union

25th amp 26th May 2013

Theme The importance of children in the world of

tomorrow

Venue Weacutegimont Castle 4630 Soumagne (20km away

from Liege)

Full programme on

httpwwwspiritebeimagesaffichesprog-sympopdf usbspiritebe wwwspiritebe

BELGIUM

Museum in due course will undergo some rearrangements and carry on its normal activities thereafter Information diretoriafebnetorgbr

Book Exhibition at the House of Representatives (Cacircmara dos Deputados)

The Spiritist Book for a new World was the title of the exhibition which took place from 15th to 30th April at the House of Representatives It was an initiative by the Member of the House of Representatives Marco A Ubiali with production by the Brazilian Spiritist Federation The inauguration was attended by the President of the FEB the Vice-President and a few members of the House of Representatives The major works by the FEB Publisher of Allan Kardec and Chico Xavier which are landmarks of Spiritism also historic articles and materials such as Chicos birth certificate as well as videos depicting the works and personalities of Spiritist were on display

Information diretoriafebnetorgbr

Releases and reprinting of books by FEB FEB Publisher has re-published and released dozens of books In May The new Testament translated by Haroldo Dutra Dias was released with the texts by the four Evangelists and Acts of the Apostles About the book at FEB Portal Nowadays the works of FEB Publisher with updated layout and

covers which the readers like are be ing w ide l y distributed At the same time book production and distribution are being modernized to better cater for the needs of the

modern world At international level FEB has always published a number of books in Esperanto and some in French In recent years it has licensed the translation of several titles to Editoras Mensaje Fraternal (Fraternal Message Publisher) in Venezuela to IDE Editora and EDICEI This assured a wide propagation of Spiritism in Spanish and enabled the International Spiritist Council to have publications available in over a dozen languages Information wwwfergsorgbr wwwfebnetorgbr httpwwwfebnetorgbrblogtopicogeralcolunistascesar-perri

CANADIAN SPIRITIST COUNCIL

secretarycanadianspiritistcouncilcom wwwcanadianspiritistcouncilcom

CANADA

THE COLOMBIAN SPIRITIST

FEDERATION

Regional Meetings

The Colombian Spiritist movement legally supported by national constitution is holding Regional Meetings complying with the law for the

election of its Council of Directors particularly the nine affiliated Federations and their respective Spiritist centres

Annual General Meeting of the Colombian Spiritist Federation (CONFECOL)

On 10th May CONFECOL the entity that governs Spiritism in our country elected its new National Federative Council The members elected for the period 2013 to 2016 were as follows President Mr Jorge Ramoacuten Berrio Bustillo General Secretary Mr Luis Fernando Vargas Lozano Managing amp Finance Director Mr German T Espinosa Finance Supervisor Mr Emiro Navarro Deputy Finance Supervisor Mr Francisco Ariza Inspector Mr Jorge Francisco Leoacuten

Deputy Inspector Axel Rhenals Turriago The target for this period is to continue the 3rd

phase of Unification

Gathering for National Unification

On 12th May all federations of the country have been called to Bogota to carry out the last arrangements in the departments of Social Assistance and Promotion

and that of Family Childhood and Youth These are topics worked on in parallel at the Senderos da la Esperanza (Workers of Hope) and Tercera Revelacioacuten (Third Revelation) Spiritist Institutions

wwwconfecolorg secretariogeneralconfecolorg

COLOMBIA

ISC NEWSLETTER no 48 6

UNIVERSAL LOVE AND CHARITY

SOCIETY

The website wwwcubaespiritaorg has an event summary of the whole 7th World Spiritist Congress and all activities at Spiritist Centres in Cuba This will be the official website of Cuban Spiritists Received by Manuel de la Cruz lacruzmannyaolcom

CUBA

SPIRITIST STUDY CENTRE BUENA NUEVA

Besides their weekly activities the CEEBN participated in the 7th World Spiritist Congress held in Cuba

The Annual General Meeting for the election of the new board of directors for 2013 and 2014 was held in March

A Seminar and other Spiritist activities in August will be held by Dr Andrei Moreira from Brazil Odete Letelier espiritismoespiritismocl wwwespiritismocl

CHILE

SPANISH SPIRITIST FEDERATION

The issue 5 of the Spiritist Magazine of the Spanish Spiritist Federation has just been released It is covers the propagation of Spiritist culture and is

SPAIN

UNITED STATES SPIRITIST COUNCIL

On 20th April 2013 the 7th US Spiritist Symposium was held in the city of Dallas Texas The event takes place once a year and is supported and attended by the National Spiritist movement Each year on Sunday following the Symposium which takes place on Saturday the Annual General Meeting of the US Spiritist Council (USSC) is held and attended by the leaders of Spiritist Groups from various parts of the country

This year the Symposium started with an opening ceremony that included all board members of the USSC going onto stage and paying a tribute to the United States as a nation which guarantees complete freedom of religious expression to its citizens unlike what is happening in many other countries At the opening the USSC President also

UNITED STATES

SPIRITIST FEDERATION OF EL SALVADOR

8 Spiritist centres affiliated to the SFS Ciacuterculo de Investigaciones Psicofiacutesicas Sociedad Siacutequico Filosoacutefico Espiritual El Mesiacuteas La Verdad es para Todos Spiritist Centre Faro del Saber Spiritist Centre Virgilio Manzanares Pentildea Spiritist Centre Sociedad de Mediums Spiritist Centre Juan Diego de Guadalupe Spiritist Centre El Buen Amigo Spiritist Centre

Rosa Amelia Campos

federacionelsalvadorespiritaorg

EL SALVADOR

called for a minute of silence for all the victims affected by the terrorist event in Boston and by the disaster which happened at a chemical plant in Texas lsquoWe are extremely blessed to being able to live in a country like

the United States of Americarsquo said USSC President Mauricio Cisneros The event continued with lectures in one hall and short training seminars for Spiritist workers in another The event was closed by a representative of the Spiritist movement of Illinois when he made an invitation to the next Symposium of 2014 in Chicago Further details are available at

wwwspiritistsymposiumorg wwwspiritistus infospiritistus

2nd QUARTER 2013 7

positive feedback from lay readers and also resulted in the creation of many websites about Chico Xavier in the Spiritualist environment

The FSC continues to collaborate with the publishing of the Revue Spirite (Spiritist Magazine) in French which has been distributed at the 7th World Spiritist Congress and the ISC Annual General Meeting in Havana

The first Spiritist book for children in French has been published by Librairie Spirite Francophone in Quebec It is the result of a wide co-operation at Francophone level with the Committee for Moral Education of the Coordination Department of Europe with illustrations by Claudia Milena Werdine Alborghetti and translated by Marcia Kempf The book can be purchased at Amazon

On 9th March 2013 a local meeting of Southeast groups took place in Arles and on 28th April 2013 an E a s t e r n F r a n c e gathering took place in Hielle with a seminar on Healing run by Rosenite Alves On 30th March 2013 a seminar in Brittany run by Alirio Cerqueira Filho on mental energy

and self-healing took place On 25th amp 26th May the annual Symposium took place at the Wegimont Castle in Belgium On 8th and 9th June a local Southeast meeting will take place in Denice and on 22nd and 23rd June a local Northern meeting will be held in Lievain

Further information wwwspiritismeorg

the official publication of the Spanish Spiritist Federation and has an article dedicated to the History of Spiritism in the world

Themes developed in this issue include from precursors such as Swendborg Jackson Davis and the Fox sisters and moving on to the Spiritist revelation codified by Allan Kardec the Society of Spiritist Studies of Paris and the Revue Spirite (The Spiritist Magazine)It also included articles on the dedicated work of the mediums of the second half of the 19th century Arthur Conan Doyle and an overview of Spiritism as it stands in the world today

It featured the great work of propagation started by the Spiritist Magazine of the Spanish Spiritist Federation through the Propagation Committee with the distribution of the magazine to many universities libraries and cultural centres mainly in Madrid Castilla-La Mancha and Castilla-Leon This magazine focused primarily on the dissemination to non-Spiritist individuals trying to reclaim the space that Spiritist proposes to better understand and face the difficulties people encounter in this world of trials and regeneration

Also the speaker Haroldo Dutra a Judge from the state of Minas Gerais made a tour of Madrid Valencia and Alicante from 15th to 17th May 2013 giving talks and holding meetings

Healing through Forgiveness and The new Era were some of the themes spoken during his tour through several European countries to promote Spiritism

infoespiritismocc wwwespiritismocc

FRENCH SPIRITIST COUNCIL

The French Spiritist Council (FSC) was represented at the 7th World Spiritist Congress and Annual General Meeting of the ISC in Havana by Luc Moussu and Charles Kempf They are making the arrangements to launch a new campaign Amar a Vida (Loving Life) promoted by the ISC and carried out by the Portuguese Spiritist Federation The material has been translated into French and will be shown on the cover of next issue of the Voie Spirite (Spiritist Way) newsletter (cover on the left-hand side)

The FSC in co-operation with LMSF keeps promoting books with large stock at EDICEI in Brasilia which are being sold as second hand for 990 Euros This has been bringing not only income to the ISC and the French speaking movement but also greatly increasing the dissemination of the works of Andre Luiz in France It has attracted much

FRANCE

Executive Committee of ISC

General Secretary Charles Kempf (France) 1st Secretary A Cesar Perri de Carvalho (Brazil) 2nd Secretary Elsa Rossi (United Kingdom) 1st Treasurer Roberto Versiani ( Brazil) 2nd Treasurer Jean-Paul Evrard (Belgium) Eduardo Santos (Uruguay) Edwin Bravo (Guatemala) Faacutebio Villarraga (Colombia) Jussara Korngold (USA) Milciades Lezcano ( Paraguay) Vitor Mora Feria ( Portugal) Salvador Martin ( Spain)

ISC NEWSLETTER no 48 8

DUTCH SPIRITIST COUNCIL

Events promoted by the Dutch Spiritist Council

Haroldo Dutra Dias Theme Paul amp Stephen amp the Parables of Jesus

19th May 2013 from 1pm to 6pm Tel 0630 050 947 with Rikeli or

0651 085 180 with Rosana grupoespiritaemanuelhotmailcom

Divaldo Pereira Franco Theme Psychology of Gratitude 22nd May 7 to 9 pm Venue Florence Steenvoorde

Building Generaal Spoorlaan 62 ndash 2285 CH - Rijswijk

Enrolment by e-mail infonrspnl Contact 0645 267 902 with

Maria Moraes

Iris and Claudio Sinoti 1st theme The Psychology of Love 29th May 730 pm to 930 pm Address Hembrugstraat 156 - 2nd floor

1013 XC Amsterdam Enrolment by e-mail infonrspnl Contact 0645 267 902 with Maria Moraes or

0644 357 538 with Nilson 2nd theme Reflecting the soul the Spiritist

Psychology of Joanna de Angelis 30th May 8pm to 10pm Venue Stichting Muzenis

Cliffordstraat 38 1051 GV Amsterdam

Enrolment svjangelisgmailcom Contact 0615 091 659 with Dalva

12th National Spiritist Meeting Speakers Charles Kempf Claudia Werdine and

Milena Alborghetti Theme Happiness from a Spiritist viewpoint Date Sunday 25th August 2013 Address Hembrugstraat 156 - 2nd floor 1013 XC Amsterdam Contact Maria Moraes - nrspiritismeyahoocombr

amp infonrspnl

4th Congress on Medicine amp Spirituality Date Saturday 12th October 2013 Venue Florence Steenvoorde Building Address Generaal Spoorlaan 62 2285 CH - Rijswijk Contact Maria Moraes - infonrspnl

nrspevenementengmailcom Full information available soon For further information please visit the Dutch Spiritist Council website at wwwnrspnl Maria Moraesinfonrspnl

HOLLAND

Excellent quality and quantity of Spiritist Courses and Conferences available on the

website of TV CEI Have you already visited it

wwwtvceicom

THE FRANCISCAN SPIRITIST CENTRE

infojoanadecusaorgau wwwjoanadecusaorgau For further information please see page 17

AUSTRALIA

CADENA HELIOSOPHICA GUATEMALTECA

A quarterly talk by the Cadeia Heliosophica Guatemalteca (Guatemalan Philosophical Study Network) took place on 27th April 203 in Joya Cuilco Huehuetenango district in Guatemala propagating the teachings of the codification of Allan Kardec providing

medical care and handing out of free medicines moral education for children and youth and a talk for over 900 brothers and sisters from different villages who arrived by lorry or on foot to listen to the teachings of the Master Jesus The board of directors also met to arrange the next quarterly conference which will take place on 27th July in the village of Ninchim San Marcos with Alipio Gonzalez who will be coming from Venezuela

It has been reported that Spiritist centre of the village of Tuimuca joined the Guatemalan Philosophical Study

Network On the first Sunday of each month the Grupo de Damas Heliosophicas Rogelia Marroquin de Bravo (Group of Ladies of Philosophical Study Network Rogelia Marroquin de Bravo) organizes a breakfast lecture for the benefit of the Charity and Light School at a restaurant in the city centre and on Sunday 5th May Mothers Day had

been successfully celebrated Edwin Bravo wwwguatespiritaorg

GUATEMALA

2nd QUARTER 2013 9

THE PORTUGUESE SPIRITIST

FEDERATION

Spiritist Culture Gathering

The Association of Propagators of Spiritism of Portugal APSP held the 9th Spiritist Culture Gathering on 20th and 21st April 2013 at the municipal hall A Casa da Muacutesica (The Music Hall) in the beautiful town of Obidos again with a full house The overall feeling was that of satisfaction for getting together and exchanging knowledge

Contacts wwwadeportugalorgjornadas

Training for Workers

Saturday 11th May 2013 from 3 to 5 pm at the Portuguese Spiritist Federations headquarters a workshop on accountancy for Spiritist Workers took place

Spiritist Gathering of Algarve

The Spiritist Gathering of Algarve organized by the Nuacutecleo Familiar Espiacuterita do Mentor Amigo (Spiritist Family Centre of the Friend Mentor) took place on Sunday 12th May 2013 at the Eva Hotel in Faro It was a time of glad getting together and exchange of knowledge

Contact 965 053 743 nfe_mentoramigosapopt

Seminar by Iris and Claudio Sinoti

On 19th May the Portuguese Spiritist Federation held at its headquarters a seminar on topics related to psychology addressed in the book Refletindo a Alma (Reflecting the Soul) and others from the psychological works of the Spirit of Joanna de Angelis Iris and Claudio Sinotti who are workers from the Mansatildeo do Caminho (Mansion of the Way) Bahia joined us in the event

Contacts geralfeportuguesapt

Health and Light Project

The 3rd Light and Health Project where topics related to physical mental and spiritual health will be discussed is being organized by the Allan Kardec

PORTUGAL ITALIAN SPIRITIST UNION

The Italian Spiritist Union through its President Regina Piccoli informs that they have all the slides of the Systematic Study of Spiritism volume I and II translated into Italian They are completing the review to draw up a booklet as a complement to the study of the classes Info italiausigmailcom

ITALY

SPIRITIST FRATERNITY GOD LOVE amp CHARITY

Saturday 16th March 2013 - Self-discovery

Seminar - with the active participation of speakers Dr Andrei Moreira from Brazil Prof Jose Angel Velasquez from El Salvador Dr Edwin Bravo and Prof Johana Bravo from Guatemala and Dr Maria de la Gracia Ender from Panama The photos of the seminar are on Fedac Facebook at wwwfedacorgpa We had an audience of 200 people with a great interest by the participants

2 Active participation at the 7th World Spiritist Congress with a Fedac delegation of 15 people among Spiritists and accompanying people

3 We are now facing a temporary difficulty with the moving to new premises The venue we had for 26 years is being sold and we have to vacate the property

We are still looking for a place to move to within our budget

Dr Maria de la Gracia Ender wwwfedacorgpa fedacpanamahotmailcom

PANAMA

PARAGUAY SPIRITIST CENTRE

The 10th Spiritist Week in Paraguay took place and was organised by the Paraguayan Spiritist Federacion

On 13th 14th and 15th September the 2nd South American Spiritist Congress took place in

Asuncion centroespiritaparaguayo_cepariedernetpy

PARAGUAY

ISC NEWSLETTER no 48 10

SPIRITIST UNION OF MOZAMBIQUE

The Spiritist Union of Mozambique was integrated to the International Spiritist Council during the Annual General Meeting in Cuba President Elide Carneiro Address Av Alfredo Keil 12 ndash Maputo Mobile +25 8844 613 251 unemomozgmailcom

wwwfacebookcomCEAKMZ

MOZAMBIQUE

MEXICAN SPIRITIST FEDERATION

The Mexican Federation of Spiritist Associations reports the activities below Federacioacuten Espiacuterita de Tamaulipas y las Huastecas (Spiritist Federation of Tamaulipas and the Huastecas) FETH

21st December 2012 talk and presentation of Spiritist poems by Spiritist youngsters in Valles S a n L u i s Potosi at the 1 8 t h anniversary of the Tomasito Herrera Spiritist Centre 21st to 23rd December 2012 talks and f e l l o w s h i p gathering of the Spiritist centres

of Mante Tamaulipas 1st January 2013 meeting of leaders of the FETH groups and fraternal gatherings January and February 2013 the official setup of t h e C o o r d i n a t i o n Department of Spiritist Centres from the Central Nor thwes t W estern Eastern Southeast regions of the country affiliated to the Mexican Federation of

Spiritist Associations local meeting of Spiritist centres in Mante and seminars held with the theme Death Spiritual Colonies Mental Irradiation and Spiritist Healing Celebration of 70th Anniversary de Spiritist Centre Love Light and Truth from Mante Anniversary de Spiritist Centre Love Light and Truth from Mante local report on the 7th International S p i r i t i s t C o n g r e s s participation in the meeting of the International Spiritist Council

MEXICO

meeting to strengthen and unify centres affiliated to the Federation and related institutions in the cities

of Valles Victoria Tampico Mante Pueblo Viejo Veracruz workshops held on Spiritist healing and fraternal assistance in the south of Veracruz and Tlaxcala

19th April interview about Spiritism and mediumship for the Radio Net 1060 AM group from the city of Juarez Chihuahua on 19th April

2013 Setting up of Spiritist Study Groups in Tabasco Quintana Roo Guadalajara and Sonora

Jorge Camargo jorgecamargozuritagmailcom

espiritismoenmexicohotmailcom

wwwespiritismoenmexicoorg

2nd QUARTER 2013 11

The meeting of CEICA took place with the presence of Mexico Panama and Honduras

CEYCA coordinator Dr Edwin Bravo

with Divaldo Franco and Patricia Rodriguez from the

Tamaulip Federation

Talk by Jorge Zurita at the

Congress in Cuba

THE SPIRITIST CHRISTIAN COMMUNION FRANCISCO CANDIDO XAVIER

wwwspiritismjp

JAPAN

GEEAK - NORWAY

The GEEAK Oslo continues to develop its

activities at the following address Dronningens gt

23 room 512 City Centre Oslo

Study of The Spirits books on Wednesdays at

6pm

Meimei Group (children and parents) on every

Saturday at 1230pm

Jussara Korngold was in Oslo for the second time

giving a talk at the Oslo Literature Hall on 14th

February 2013 with the theme Boosting your inner

Power

Spiritist Studies in Norway

Euripides Barsanulfo Spiritist Group - Bergen

Study of The Spirits book and the Gospel according

to Spiritism on Sundays from 730 to 9pm -

Information spiritismeibergengmailcom

Chico Xavier Spiritist Group - Trondheim

Meetings Wednesdays from 615 to 715pm

Contact spiritismentrondheimgmailcom

Bernt Torstenson Spiritist Study Group - Oslo

Meetings in Norwegian on Wednesdays from 1 to 2

pm Fredrikkebygget (UiO - Universitetet i Oslo

Blindern - Oslo) next to the Fredrikke Kapell

Contact sssbernttorstensongmailcom

Paul of Tarsus Spiritist Group Stavanger

Virtual meetings on Wednesdays from 730 to 9pm

Contact gepstavangergmailcom

httpspiritismestavangerblogspotno

postgeeaknorgecom

wwwgeeaknorgecom

NORWAY SPIRITIST SOCIETY

OF IRELAND

Andrei Moreira gave a talk in Dublin on 15th May 2013 on the theme Self Love a Healing Path

Divaldo Franco will be again in Dublin with the talk Mediumship Challenges and Blessings

on 11th June 2013 On 23rd May 2013 a talk by Sergio Thiesen Information sbertozzogmailcom

wwwallankardec-irelandorg

REPUBLIC OF IRELAND

ISC NEWSLETTER no48 12

GEEAK- LUXEMBOURG

Allan Kardec Spiritist Group of Luxembourg

You are all invited for a conference by Divaldo Pereira Franco on the theme Psychology of Gratitude Friday 7th June 2013 730pm to 1030pm Centre Socieacutetaire 29 rue de Strasbourg L-2560 - Luxembourg - Gare allankardecluxyahoofr wwwgroupespiriteallankardecluxcom

LUXEMBOURG

SPIRITIST FEDERATION OF PERU

The conference by Luis Hu took place in March

feperu_espiritayahoocom httpperuespiritablogspotcom

PERU

ALLAN KARDEC SPIRITIST GROUP - NZ

infoallankardecorgnz

httpallankardecorgnz

NEW ZEALAND

Study Group and AME GEEAK the Spiritist Medical Doctors Association of Coimbra

Contacts wwwgeeakpt

23rd Spiritist Gathering

of Lisbon

At the CEPC Centro Espiacuterita Perdatildeo e Caridade (Forgiveness and Charity Spiritist Centre) The themes are based on the book by Joanna de Angelis entitled Constelaccedilatildeo Familiar (Family

Constellation) From 10am to 5pm

With the participation of the Lisbon Spiritist Music Group and Choir and the Jogral Espiacuterita de Lisboa (Lisbon Spiritist Minstrel) as well as he participation of the DIJ of CEPC

Contacts wwwceperdaoecaridadept

June 17th CONCESP

The National Gathering of Spiritist Children will take place this year in Lisbon on 1st June From 1030 am to 430 pm at the Pousada da Juventude do Parque das Naccedilotildees with the theme Once upon a time the birds of heaven We look forward to seeing you with a lot of disposition and willingness in participating

Enrolment Forms concesp2013gmailcom

httpdijfeportuguesaptconcesp2013

Spiritist Meeting of Alentejo

On Sunday 2nd June from 10am to 6pm the Spiritist Meeting of Alentejo 2013 will take place at the D Fernando Hotel in Evora with the theme Spiritism in Alentejo

Contacts

cefeevoragmailcom

Cultural Spiritist

Meeting 2013

The Cultural Spiritist Meeting 2013 will be dedicated to the theme of The Portuguese Spiritist Movement and

2nd QUARTER 2013 13

will take place on Sunday 30th June from 2pm at its headquarters in Amadora Get to know better the history of the Portuguese Spiritist Movement See you there

Contacts wwwfeportuguesapt

Tel 214 975 754

geralfeportuguesapt

Featured

The Portuguese Spiritist Congress 2013

It will be held in Leiria at the premises of the Spiritist Association of Leiria on 16th amp 17th November under the theme of Mediumship a vision of the future We should point out that the hall has limited capacity so it is recommended that you book your place early

Contacts wwwfeportuguesapt

Please book your place by sending an email to

congressoespiritaportugues2013gmailcom

If you have any queries please dont hesitate to contact us

wwwfeportuguesapt

fepinformafeportuguesapt

focused on the same target which was to touching the soul of every one present in the huge audience awakening in those who were seeking knowledge a new opportunity for a new re-beginning Soon the videos of the talks will be available on Youtube Further information on the BUSS website below Article by Ana Marques

coordinator of Guiding Light Spiritist Society in Canterbury UK Photos Guilherme Almeida Future events in June in UK

Divaldo Franco on 9th June in London 10th June in Glasgow Therezinha Oliveira 23rd June to 30th June Talks in London and Wokingham

All posters and information are available on the BUSS website wwwbussorguk

busseventsgmailcom

BUSS - BRITISH UNION OF SPIRITIST SOCIETIES

2nd British Spiritist Congress Celebrating 30 Years of Spiritism

in the United Kingdom

With the main theme A new Era and the Dawning of a new Humanity the 2nd British Spiritist Congress held on 11th and 12th May 2013 at the main hall of the Quakers Friends House in London and organised by BUSS was a success Participants from 14 different countries were present namely France Norway Denmark Sweden Switzerland Japan Portugal Republic of Ireland Czech Republic Brazil Liechtenstein Germany Australia and Serbia During both Saturday and Sunday a total of 248 people enrolled for the event and were able to enjoy 15 talks offered by 13 speakers Charles Kempf General Secretary of the ISC Harold Dutra Dias Dr Andrei Moreira Speakers present from the UK Janet Duncan President of Allan Kardec Study Group - Centre for Spiritist Teachings London completing 30 years of foundation Guy Lyon Playfair Anne Christine Sinclair Silvia Gibbons Denise Ferrett Maria Gomes Davian Jessamy Elizabeth Freire Stevanin Tania and Tanya Moore

The event was hosted by Christopher Kinghorn There was a musical performance by Diego Carneiro p l a y i n g c e l l o s op r ano Maya Sapone and Martino Scovacricchi playing saxophone

Mark ing 30 years of Spiritism in the UK Janet Duncan founder of the Spiritist Movement in England gave a opening speech about the Pathway

to Enlightenment The event was broadcast worldwide through TVCEI (wwwtvceicom) and the talks were further broadcast by the Fraternity Radio and Good News Radio of

Brazil This great event focused primarily on bringing

together hearts and souls and also stressing the importance of diversity in our lives

13 speakers each one with their own different way of speaking and expressing themselves but

UNITED KINGDOM

ISC NEWSLETTER no48 14

THE SWEDISH SPIRITIST UNION

On 24th and 25th May Divaldo Pereira Franco was once again in Scandinavia This time in Gothenburg Sweden in a gathering with local Spiritist groups This year our companions from Finland also attended the event The eminent propagator of Spiritism gave a public talk in this city which was translated into Swedish and also a Seminar with the Spiritist Groups present

The Paring Vaumlgen till ljuset Spiritist Group and

the Leon Denis Spiritist Study Centre in Stockholm took part by selling Spiritist books and distributing messages at the Harmony Fair in Stockholm on 23rd and 24th last March It has been noticed during the Fair that people had a growing interest on the Spiritist Doctrine and its foundations

At the Vatumannen Bookstore in Stockholm Spiritist books continue to be sold and information leaflets on Spiritism distributed

The Leon Denis Spiritist Study Centre in

Stockholm is completing the study of the book Efter Doumlden (After Death) by Leon Denis which has already been translated into Swedish

Information spiritismensegmailcom

wwwgsfallankardecblogspotcom

wwwspiritismencom

httpspiritistiskaforbundetblogspotcouk

SWEDEN

2nd QUARTER 2013 15

accommodation and closer contact with people who normally would only have superficial contact one to each other at major events The Spirit Movement in Switzerland owes much to Mr Jorge Godinho who with his vast experience and great patience has been teaching and providing us with advice From 6th to 9th May we had

the great pleasure of having with us Haroldo Dutra a Spiritist speaker who travelled throughout Switzerland giving different talks and a short seminar With the election of the new board of directors of UCESS on 14th April 2013 Rejane Hostettler is now the director of UCESS and there are also 3 vice-directors Pedro Pereira Nelly Berchtold and Dilma Hambrock Rejane is doing a course on theology in Zurich and making Spiritism known amongst other religious denominations so that a new focus of work is being introduced

Two new Spiritist centres have been founded in this period CEBEM in Zurich (Kuumlsnacht) and GEFA in Bern (Zollikofen) In the Italian Switzerland we will be beginning a program of monthly

events in Italian in May (please see the poster) Most Spiritist centres have received a boost of new friends very knowledgeable in Spiritism joining these centres and are providing their help to the Spiritist movement with great motivation

Divaldo Franco spoke in Switzerland on 20th May 2013 in Zurich at G-19 a Spiritist institution In Winthertur at CEEAK he spoke on the following topic Rebellious Spirits and Peace For the Spiritist Centres in Switzerland please visit the website wwwspiritismech nellyberchtoldhotmailcom

UNION OF SPIRITIST STUDY CENTRES IN SWITZERLAND - UCESS

Members of the 10 Spiritist centres in Switzerland have been meeting regularly since

January 2013 for at least a week-end per month in the rural area of Berne to study the Spiritist doctrine Study a n d p r a c t i c e o f mediumship in the 1st half of the year and the Systematic Study of Spiritism is scheduled for 2nd half of the year This study promotes closer ties of friendship because of the study groups the shared

SWITZERLAND

CIVIL ASSOCIATION SOCRATES

We are working to legalise the Venezuelan Spiritist Federation Jose Vasquez L - ingjvasquezgmailcom

VENEZUELA URUGUAYAN SPIRITIST

FEDERATION - USF Seminar - Spiritual Assistance 60th Anniversary of Spiritist Centre Hacia la Verdad Organised by Spiritist Centre Hacia la Verdad Supported by Spiritist Assistance Department of the USF General Flores 4689 Info about the datehacialaverdadmontevideocom uyfeuruguaygmailcom wwwespiritismouruguaycom

URUGUAY

ISC NEWSLETTER no 48 16

SPIRITIST CENTRE LOVE

2 Groups Tallinn and Vosu Please write only in Esperanto Russian or Estonian to Mr August Kilk augustspiritismee

wwwspiritismee

ESTONIA

ALLAN KARDEC SPIRITIST GROUP

Please contact in Esperanto or Hungarian Szabadi Tibor satiborespgmailcom

HUNGARY

SPIRITISM IN FINLAND ALLAN KARDEC TYOumlRYHMAuml In April a talk on the Mediums Books was given in response to the invitation of the Spiritualist event held in Tampere

On 8th and 9th May the Spiritist movement in Finland had an invaluable help by Andrei Moreira on theme Depression from the Spiritist Perspective

The talks were held in Helsinki and Vaumlaumlksy and translated into Finnish We had 120 people who attended the event and apart from the organisers the audience was

100 Finnish It is with great joy that we inform that the Allan Kardec Tyoumlryhmauml ry (Allan Kardec Work Group) received their registration number from the Finnish authorities in May so becoming the first registered Spiritist association in Finland

We are always grateful for each seed of light which is sowed We hope to continue watering our garden of love

Contacts and information infoallankardecfi

infospiritismifi wwwspiritismifi

FINLAND

THE SPIRITIST MOVEMENT IN OTHER COUNTRIES

SPIRITISM IN BELARUS

The President of the Spiritist Group in Minsk (Belarusian Spiritist Group) is Andrei Latsinnik Vice-president Natalia Latsinnik and Spartak Severin is the contact for enquiries from other countries

The group is made up by 15 people From the translation into English or French the ISC newsletter is now also being translated into Russian by Spartak Severin Andrei and Natasha from the Spiritist Group of Minsk Please write only in English French Italian or Russian to spartak-severinyandexby httpbelarusspiritycom

BELARUS

2nd QUARTER 2013 17

Spiritism in Ecuador

In June an Executive Committee member of the ISC will be visiting Guayaquil to carry out tasks and Spiritist seminars organised by the South America Coordination Department

wwwespiritismoquitoblogspotcom

ECUADOR

UAE - UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

There are 3 Groups in the UAE The 3rd Meeting of Spiritist Philosophy of the Middle East took place on 23rd and 26th May with the participation of our dear friend Haroldo Dutra In February the Abu Dhabi Group organized the 6th Lecture Cycle for the 3 groups in the United Arab Emirates This time the guest speaker was

Anete Guimaraes httpespacodespertarblogspotcom

Cesar Augustus - GEEAD

contatogeeadgmailcom httpswwwfacebookcomgeeadabudhabi

Ana Elisa Vilhena ndash GECL -

grupoespiritacaminhodeluzgmailcom

ARAB EMIRATES

ALLAN KARDEC GROUP OF PRAGUE

27th May 2013 Prague

Seminar with Divaldo

Franco

Information allankardecseznamcz website in Czech wwwkardeccz

CZECH REPUBLIC

AUSTRALIA

Further information on the Spiritist Movement in some cities in Australia please visit the following website wwwallankardecsydneyorg allankardecsydneygmailcom

POLAND SPIRITISM IN WARSAW

Further information only in Polish on the website wwwspirytyzmpl konradspirytyzmpl wwwrivailpl

INTERNATIONAL SPIRITIST COUNCIL IN ARGENTINE

EDICEI at the 39th International Book Fair of

Buenos Aires

From 23rd April to 13th May 2013 as it always happened since 2009 the International Spiritist Council through Edicei Iberoamerica and under sponsored by the Argentine Spiritist Federation took part as an exhibitor in the 39th International Book Fair of Buenos Aires

50 countries 500 exhibitors took part in it and attracted 1200000 visitors On the stand more than 100 Spiritist books were on display including the basic works of the codification by Allan Kardec and the Spanish edition of the Spiritist Magazine of 1860 by Allan Kardec

After the event a sale of 455 books were registered including works of the following publishers namely Joanna de Angelis 18 de abril and the CEA

GLOBAL CAMPAIGN IN DEFENCE OF LIFE by the International Spiritist Council The artwork has been approved at the meeting in Havana Cuba It is made up of images in posters in different languages Artwork prepared by the team of the Portuguese Spiritist Federation To send the translation please email Helena on 7helenabbgmailcom Soon available in all languages on the ISC website wwwinterceicom

Spiritist Friend Please visit the website of the International Spiritist Council which is often updated httpceispiriteorges httpceispiriteorgpt httpceispiriteorg httpceispiriteorgfr wwwinterceicom

Page 6: INTERNATIONAL SPIRITIST COUNCIL · Divaldo spoke about mediumship, but with an initial approach that studied the characteristics of human beings and their different levels of consciousness

Museum in due course will undergo some rearrangements and carry on its normal activities thereafter Information diretoriafebnetorgbr

Book Exhibition at the House of Representatives (Cacircmara dos Deputados)

The Spiritist Book for a new World was the title of the exhibition which took place from 15th to 30th April at the House of Representatives It was an initiative by the Member of the House of Representatives Marco A Ubiali with production by the Brazilian Spiritist Federation The inauguration was attended by the President of the FEB the Vice-President and a few members of the House of Representatives The major works by the FEB Publisher of Allan Kardec and Chico Xavier which are landmarks of Spiritism also historic articles and materials such as Chicos birth certificate as well as videos depicting the works and personalities of Spiritist were on display

Information diretoriafebnetorgbr

Releases and reprinting of books by FEB FEB Publisher has re-published and released dozens of books In May The new Testament translated by Haroldo Dutra Dias was released with the texts by the four Evangelists and Acts of the Apostles About the book at FEB Portal Nowadays the works of FEB Publisher with updated layout and

covers which the readers like are be ing w ide l y distributed At the same time book production and distribution are being modernized to better cater for the needs of the

modern world At international level FEB has always published a number of books in Esperanto and some in French In recent years it has licensed the translation of several titles to Editoras Mensaje Fraternal (Fraternal Message Publisher) in Venezuela to IDE Editora and EDICEI This assured a wide propagation of Spiritism in Spanish and enabled the International Spiritist Council to have publications available in over a dozen languages Information wwwfergsorgbr wwwfebnetorgbr httpwwwfebnetorgbrblogtopicogeralcolunistascesar-perri

CANADIAN SPIRITIST COUNCIL

secretarycanadianspiritistcouncilcom wwwcanadianspiritistcouncilcom

CANADA

THE COLOMBIAN SPIRITIST

FEDERATION

Regional Meetings

The Colombian Spiritist movement legally supported by national constitution is holding Regional Meetings complying with the law for the

election of its Council of Directors particularly the nine affiliated Federations and their respective Spiritist centres

Annual General Meeting of the Colombian Spiritist Federation (CONFECOL)

On 10th May CONFECOL the entity that governs Spiritism in our country elected its new National Federative Council The members elected for the period 2013 to 2016 were as follows President Mr Jorge Ramoacuten Berrio Bustillo General Secretary Mr Luis Fernando Vargas Lozano Managing amp Finance Director Mr German T Espinosa Finance Supervisor Mr Emiro Navarro Deputy Finance Supervisor Mr Francisco Ariza Inspector Mr Jorge Francisco Leoacuten

Deputy Inspector Axel Rhenals Turriago The target for this period is to continue the 3rd

phase of Unification

Gathering for National Unification

On 12th May all federations of the country have been called to Bogota to carry out the last arrangements in the departments of Social Assistance and Promotion

and that of Family Childhood and Youth These are topics worked on in parallel at the Senderos da la Esperanza (Workers of Hope) and Tercera Revelacioacuten (Third Revelation) Spiritist Institutions

wwwconfecolorg secretariogeneralconfecolorg

COLOMBIA

ISC NEWSLETTER no 48 6

UNIVERSAL LOVE AND CHARITY

SOCIETY

The website wwwcubaespiritaorg has an event summary of the whole 7th World Spiritist Congress and all activities at Spiritist Centres in Cuba This will be the official website of Cuban Spiritists Received by Manuel de la Cruz lacruzmannyaolcom

CUBA

SPIRITIST STUDY CENTRE BUENA NUEVA

Besides their weekly activities the CEEBN participated in the 7th World Spiritist Congress held in Cuba

The Annual General Meeting for the election of the new board of directors for 2013 and 2014 was held in March

A Seminar and other Spiritist activities in August will be held by Dr Andrei Moreira from Brazil Odete Letelier espiritismoespiritismocl wwwespiritismocl

CHILE

SPANISH SPIRITIST FEDERATION

The issue 5 of the Spiritist Magazine of the Spanish Spiritist Federation has just been released It is covers the propagation of Spiritist culture and is

SPAIN

UNITED STATES SPIRITIST COUNCIL

On 20th April 2013 the 7th US Spiritist Symposium was held in the city of Dallas Texas The event takes place once a year and is supported and attended by the National Spiritist movement Each year on Sunday following the Symposium which takes place on Saturday the Annual General Meeting of the US Spiritist Council (USSC) is held and attended by the leaders of Spiritist Groups from various parts of the country

This year the Symposium started with an opening ceremony that included all board members of the USSC going onto stage and paying a tribute to the United States as a nation which guarantees complete freedom of religious expression to its citizens unlike what is happening in many other countries At the opening the USSC President also

UNITED STATES

SPIRITIST FEDERATION OF EL SALVADOR

8 Spiritist centres affiliated to the SFS Ciacuterculo de Investigaciones Psicofiacutesicas Sociedad Siacutequico Filosoacutefico Espiritual El Mesiacuteas La Verdad es para Todos Spiritist Centre Faro del Saber Spiritist Centre Virgilio Manzanares Pentildea Spiritist Centre Sociedad de Mediums Spiritist Centre Juan Diego de Guadalupe Spiritist Centre El Buen Amigo Spiritist Centre

Rosa Amelia Campos

federacionelsalvadorespiritaorg

EL SALVADOR

called for a minute of silence for all the victims affected by the terrorist event in Boston and by the disaster which happened at a chemical plant in Texas lsquoWe are extremely blessed to being able to live in a country like

the United States of Americarsquo said USSC President Mauricio Cisneros The event continued with lectures in one hall and short training seminars for Spiritist workers in another The event was closed by a representative of the Spiritist movement of Illinois when he made an invitation to the next Symposium of 2014 in Chicago Further details are available at

wwwspiritistsymposiumorg wwwspiritistus infospiritistus

2nd QUARTER 2013 7

positive feedback from lay readers and also resulted in the creation of many websites about Chico Xavier in the Spiritualist environment

The FSC continues to collaborate with the publishing of the Revue Spirite (Spiritist Magazine) in French which has been distributed at the 7th World Spiritist Congress and the ISC Annual General Meeting in Havana

The first Spiritist book for children in French has been published by Librairie Spirite Francophone in Quebec It is the result of a wide co-operation at Francophone level with the Committee for Moral Education of the Coordination Department of Europe with illustrations by Claudia Milena Werdine Alborghetti and translated by Marcia Kempf The book can be purchased at Amazon

On 9th March 2013 a local meeting of Southeast groups took place in Arles and on 28th April 2013 an E a s t e r n F r a n c e gathering took place in Hielle with a seminar on Healing run by Rosenite Alves On 30th March 2013 a seminar in Brittany run by Alirio Cerqueira Filho on mental energy

and self-healing took place On 25th amp 26th May the annual Symposium took place at the Wegimont Castle in Belgium On 8th and 9th June a local Southeast meeting will take place in Denice and on 22nd and 23rd June a local Northern meeting will be held in Lievain

Further information wwwspiritismeorg

the official publication of the Spanish Spiritist Federation and has an article dedicated to the History of Spiritism in the world

Themes developed in this issue include from precursors such as Swendborg Jackson Davis and the Fox sisters and moving on to the Spiritist revelation codified by Allan Kardec the Society of Spiritist Studies of Paris and the Revue Spirite (The Spiritist Magazine)It also included articles on the dedicated work of the mediums of the second half of the 19th century Arthur Conan Doyle and an overview of Spiritism as it stands in the world today

It featured the great work of propagation started by the Spiritist Magazine of the Spanish Spiritist Federation through the Propagation Committee with the distribution of the magazine to many universities libraries and cultural centres mainly in Madrid Castilla-La Mancha and Castilla-Leon This magazine focused primarily on the dissemination to non-Spiritist individuals trying to reclaim the space that Spiritist proposes to better understand and face the difficulties people encounter in this world of trials and regeneration

Also the speaker Haroldo Dutra a Judge from the state of Minas Gerais made a tour of Madrid Valencia and Alicante from 15th to 17th May 2013 giving talks and holding meetings

Healing through Forgiveness and The new Era were some of the themes spoken during his tour through several European countries to promote Spiritism

infoespiritismocc wwwespiritismocc

FRENCH SPIRITIST COUNCIL

The French Spiritist Council (FSC) was represented at the 7th World Spiritist Congress and Annual General Meeting of the ISC in Havana by Luc Moussu and Charles Kempf They are making the arrangements to launch a new campaign Amar a Vida (Loving Life) promoted by the ISC and carried out by the Portuguese Spiritist Federation The material has been translated into French and will be shown on the cover of next issue of the Voie Spirite (Spiritist Way) newsletter (cover on the left-hand side)

The FSC in co-operation with LMSF keeps promoting books with large stock at EDICEI in Brasilia which are being sold as second hand for 990 Euros This has been bringing not only income to the ISC and the French speaking movement but also greatly increasing the dissemination of the works of Andre Luiz in France It has attracted much

FRANCE

Executive Committee of ISC

General Secretary Charles Kempf (France) 1st Secretary A Cesar Perri de Carvalho (Brazil) 2nd Secretary Elsa Rossi (United Kingdom) 1st Treasurer Roberto Versiani ( Brazil) 2nd Treasurer Jean-Paul Evrard (Belgium) Eduardo Santos (Uruguay) Edwin Bravo (Guatemala) Faacutebio Villarraga (Colombia) Jussara Korngold (USA) Milciades Lezcano ( Paraguay) Vitor Mora Feria ( Portugal) Salvador Martin ( Spain)

ISC NEWSLETTER no 48 8

DUTCH SPIRITIST COUNCIL

Events promoted by the Dutch Spiritist Council

Haroldo Dutra Dias Theme Paul amp Stephen amp the Parables of Jesus

19th May 2013 from 1pm to 6pm Tel 0630 050 947 with Rikeli or

0651 085 180 with Rosana grupoespiritaemanuelhotmailcom

Divaldo Pereira Franco Theme Psychology of Gratitude 22nd May 7 to 9 pm Venue Florence Steenvoorde

Building Generaal Spoorlaan 62 ndash 2285 CH - Rijswijk

Enrolment by e-mail infonrspnl Contact 0645 267 902 with

Maria Moraes

Iris and Claudio Sinoti 1st theme The Psychology of Love 29th May 730 pm to 930 pm Address Hembrugstraat 156 - 2nd floor

1013 XC Amsterdam Enrolment by e-mail infonrspnl Contact 0645 267 902 with Maria Moraes or

0644 357 538 with Nilson 2nd theme Reflecting the soul the Spiritist

Psychology of Joanna de Angelis 30th May 8pm to 10pm Venue Stichting Muzenis

Cliffordstraat 38 1051 GV Amsterdam

Enrolment svjangelisgmailcom Contact 0615 091 659 with Dalva

12th National Spiritist Meeting Speakers Charles Kempf Claudia Werdine and

Milena Alborghetti Theme Happiness from a Spiritist viewpoint Date Sunday 25th August 2013 Address Hembrugstraat 156 - 2nd floor 1013 XC Amsterdam Contact Maria Moraes - nrspiritismeyahoocombr

amp infonrspnl

4th Congress on Medicine amp Spirituality Date Saturday 12th October 2013 Venue Florence Steenvoorde Building Address Generaal Spoorlaan 62 2285 CH - Rijswijk Contact Maria Moraes - infonrspnl

nrspevenementengmailcom Full information available soon For further information please visit the Dutch Spiritist Council website at wwwnrspnl Maria Moraesinfonrspnl

HOLLAND

Excellent quality and quantity of Spiritist Courses and Conferences available on the

website of TV CEI Have you already visited it

wwwtvceicom

THE FRANCISCAN SPIRITIST CENTRE

infojoanadecusaorgau wwwjoanadecusaorgau For further information please see page 17

AUSTRALIA

CADENA HELIOSOPHICA GUATEMALTECA

A quarterly talk by the Cadeia Heliosophica Guatemalteca (Guatemalan Philosophical Study Network) took place on 27th April 203 in Joya Cuilco Huehuetenango district in Guatemala propagating the teachings of the codification of Allan Kardec providing

medical care and handing out of free medicines moral education for children and youth and a talk for over 900 brothers and sisters from different villages who arrived by lorry or on foot to listen to the teachings of the Master Jesus The board of directors also met to arrange the next quarterly conference which will take place on 27th July in the village of Ninchim San Marcos with Alipio Gonzalez who will be coming from Venezuela

It has been reported that Spiritist centre of the village of Tuimuca joined the Guatemalan Philosophical Study

Network On the first Sunday of each month the Grupo de Damas Heliosophicas Rogelia Marroquin de Bravo (Group of Ladies of Philosophical Study Network Rogelia Marroquin de Bravo) organizes a breakfast lecture for the benefit of the Charity and Light School at a restaurant in the city centre and on Sunday 5th May Mothers Day had

been successfully celebrated Edwin Bravo wwwguatespiritaorg

GUATEMALA

2nd QUARTER 2013 9

THE PORTUGUESE SPIRITIST

FEDERATION

Spiritist Culture Gathering

The Association of Propagators of Spiritism of Portugal APSP held the 9th Spiritist Culture Gathering on 20th and 21st April 2013 at the municipal hall A Casa da Muacutesica (The Music Hall) in the beautiful town of Obidos again with a full house The overall feeling was that of satisfaction for getting together and exchanging knowledge

Contacts wwwadeportugalorgjornadas

Training for Workers

Saturday 11th May 2013 from 3 to 5 pm at the Portuguese Spiritist Federations headquarters a workshop on accountancy for Spiritist Workers took place

Spiritist Gathering of Algarve

The Spiritist Gathering of Algarve organized by the Nuacutecleo Familiar Espiacuterita do Mentor Amigo (Spiritist Family Centre of the Friend Mentor) took place on Sunday 12th May 2013 at the Eva Hotel in Faro It was a time of glad getting together and exchange of knowledge

Contact 965 053 743 nfe_mentoramigosapopt

Seminar by Iris and Claudio Sinoti

On 19th May the Portuguese Spiritist Federation held at its headquarters a seminar on topics related to psychology addressed in the book Refletindo a Alma (Reflecting the Soul) and others from the psychological works of the Spirit of Joanna de Angelis Iris and Claudio Sinotti who are workers from the Mansatildeo do Caminho (Mansion of the Way) Bahia joined us in the event

Contacts geralfeportuguesapt

Health and Light Project

The 3rd Light and Health Project where topics related to physical mental and spiritual health will be discussed is being organized by the Allan Kardec

PORTUGAL ITALIAN SPIRITIST UNION

The Italian Spiritist Union through its President Regina Piccoli informs that they have all the slides of the Systematic Study of Spiritism volume I and II translated into Italian They are completing the review to draw up a booklet as a complement to the study of the classes Info italiausigmailcom

ITALY

SPIRITIST FRATERNITY GOD LOVE amp CHARITY

Saturday 16th March 2013 - Self-discovery

Seminar - with the active participation of speakers Dr Andrei Moreira from Brazil Prof Jose Angel Velasquez from El Salvador Dr Edwin Bravo and Prof Johana Bravo from Guatemala and Dr Maria de la Gracia Ender from Panama The photos of the seminar are on Fedac Facebook at wwwfedacorgpa We had an audience of 200 people with a great interest by the participants

2 Active participation at the 7th World Spiritist Congress with a Fedac delegation of 15 people among Spiritists and accompanying people

3 We are now facing a temporary difficulty with the moving to new premises The venue we had for 26 years is being sold and we have to vacate the property

We are still looking for a place to move to within our budget

Dr Maria de la Gracia Ender wwwfedacorgpa fedacpanamahotmailcom

PANAMA

PARAGUAY SPIRITIST CENTRE

The 10th Spiritist Week in Paraguay took place and was organised by the Paraguayan Spiritist Federacion

On 13th 14th and 15th September the 2nd South American Spiritist Congress took place in

Asuncion centroespiritaparaguayo_cepariedernetpy

PARAGUAY

ISC NEWSLETTER no 48 10

SPIRITIST UNION OF MOZAMBIQUE

The Spiritist Union of Mozambique was integrated to the International Spiritist Council during the Annual General Meeting in Cuba President Elide Carneiro Address Av Alfredo Keil 12 ndash Maputo Mobile +25 8844 613 251 unemomozgmailcom

wwwfacebookcomCEAKMZ

MOZAMBIQUE

MEXICAN SPIRITIST FEDERATION

The Mexican Federation of Spiritist Associations reports the activities below Federacioacuten Espiacuterita de Tamaulipas y las Huastecas (Spiritist Federation of Tamaulipas and the Huastecas) FETH

21st December 2012 talk and presentation of Spiritist poems by Spiritist youngsters in Valles S a n L u i s Potosi at the 1 8 t h anniversary of the Tomasito Herrera Spiritist Centre 21st to 23rd December 2012 talks and f e l l o w s h i p gathering of the Spiritist centres

of Mante Tamaulipas 1st January 2013 meeting of leaders of the FETH groups and fraternal gatherings January and February 2013 the official setup of t h e C o o r d i n a t i o n Department of Spiritist Centres from the Central Nor thwes t W estern Eastern Southeast regions of the country affiliated to the Mexican Federation of

Spiritist Associations local meeting of Spiritist centres in Mante and seminars held with the theme Death Spiritual Colonies Mental Irradiation and Spiritist Healing Celebration of 70th Anniversary de Spiritist Centre Love Light and Truth from Mante Anniversary de Spiritist Centre Love Light and Truth from Mante local report on the 7th International S p i r i t i s t C o n g r e s s participation in the meeting of the International Spiritist Council

MEXICO

meeting to strengthen and unify centres affiliated to the Federation and related institutions in the cities

of Valles Victoria Tampico Mante Pueblo Viejo Veracruz workshops held on Spiritist healing and fraternal assistance in the south of Veracruz and Tlaxcala

19th April interview about Spiritism and mediumship for the Radio Net 1060 AM group from the city of Juarez Chihuahua on 19th April

2013 Setting up of Spiritist Study Groups in Tabasco Quintana Roo Guadalajara and Sonora

Jorge Camargo jorgecamargozuritagmailcom

espiritismoenmexicohotmailcom

wwwespiritismoenmexicoorg

2nd QUARTER 2013 11

The meeting of CEICA took place with the presence of Mexico Panama and Honduras

CEYCA coordinator Dr Edwin Bravo

with Divaldo Franco and Patricia Rodriguez from the

Tamaulip Federation

Talk by Jorge Zurita at the

Congress in Cuba

THE SPIRITIST CHRISTIAN COMMUNION FRANCISCO CANDIDO XAVIER

wwwspiritismjp

JAPAN

GEEAK - NORWAY

The GEEAK Oslo continues to develop its

activities at the following address Dronningens gt

23 room 512 City Centre Oslo

Study of The Spirits books on Wednesdays at

6pm

Meimei Group (children and parents) on every

Saturday at 1230pm

Jussara Korngold was in Oslo for the second time

giving a talk at the Oslo Literature Hall on 14th

February 2013 with the theme Boosting your inner

Power

Spiritist Studies in Norway

Euripides Barsanulfo Spiritist Group - Bergen

Study of The Spirits book and the Gospel according

to Spiritism on Sundays from 730 to 9pm -

Information spiritismeibergengmailcom

Chico Xavier Spiritist Group - Trondheim

Meetings Wednesdays from 615 to 715pm

Contact spiritismentrondheimgmailcom

Bernt Torstenson Spiritist Study Group - Oslo

Meetings in Norwegian on Wednesdays from 1 to 2

pm Fredrikkebygget (UiO - Universitetet i Oslo

Blindern - Oslo) next to the Fredrikke Kapell

Contact sssbernttorstensongmailcom

Paul of Tarsus Spiritist Group Stavanger

Virtual meetings on Wednesdays from 730 to 9pm

Contact gepstavangergmailcom

httpspiritismestavangerblogspotno

postgeeaknorgecom

wwwgeeaknorgecom

NORWAY SPIRITIST SOCIETY

OF IRELAND

Andrei Moreira gave a talk in Dublin on 15th May 2013 on the theme Self Love a Healing Path

Divaldo Franco will be again in Dublin with the talk Mediumship Challenges and Blessings

on 11th June 2013 On 23rd May 2013 a talk by Sergio Thiesen Information sbertozzogmailcom

wwwallankardec-irelandorg

REPUBLIC OF IRELAND

ISC NEWSLETTER no48 12

GEEAK- LUXEMBOURG

Allan Kardec Spiritist Group of Luxembourg

You are all invited for a conference by Divaldo Pereira Franco on the theme Psychology of Gratitude Friday 7th June 2013 730pm to 1030pm Centre Socieacutetaire 29 rue de Strasbourg L-2560 - Luxembourg - Gare allankardecluxyahoofr wwwgroupespiriteallankardecluxcom

LUXEMBOURG

SPIRITIST FEDERATION OF PERU

The conference by Luis Hu took place in March

feperu_espiritayahoocom httpperuespiritablogspotcom

PERU

ALLAN KARDEC SPIRITIST GROUP - NZ

infoallankardecorgnz

httpallankardecorgnz

NEW ZEALAND

Study Group and AME GEEAK the Spiritist Medical Doctors Association of Coimbra

Contacts wwwgeeakpt

23rd Spiritist Gathering

of Lisbon

At the CEPC Centro Espiacuterita Perdatildeo e Caridade (Forgiveness and Charity Spiritist Centre) The themes are based on the book by Joanna de Angelis entitled Constelaccedilatildeo Familiar (Family

Constellation) From 10am to 5pm

With the participation of the Lisbon Spiritist Music Group and Choir and the Jogral Espiacuterita de Lisboa (Lisbon Spiritist Minstrel) as well as he participation of the DIJ of CEPC

Contacts wwwceperdaoecaridadept

June 17th CONCESP

The National Gathering of Spiritist Children will take place this year in Lisbon on 1st June From 1030 am to 430 pm at the Pousada da Juventude do Parque das Naccedilotildees with the theme Once upon a time the birds of heaven We look forward to seeing you with a lot of disposition and willingness in participating

Enrolment Forms concesp2013gmailcom

httpdijfeportuguesaptconcesp2013

Spiritist Meeting of Alentejo

On Sunday 2nd June from 10am to 6pm the Spiritist Meeting of Alentejo 2013 will take place at the D Fernando Hotel in Evora with the theme Spiritism in Alentejo

Contacts

cefeevoragmailcom

Cultural Spiritist

Meeting 2013

The Cultural Spiritist Meeting 2013 will be dedicated to the theme of The Portuguese Spiritist Movement and

2nd QUARTER 2013 13

will take place on Sunday 30th June from 2pm at its headquarters in Amadora Get to know better the history of the Portuguese Spiritist Movement See you there

Contacts wwwfeportuguesapt

Tel 214 975 754

geralfeportuguesapt

Featured

The Portuguese Spiritist Congress 2013

It will be held in Leiria at the premises of the Spiritist Association of Leiria on 16th amp 17th November under the theme of Mediumship a vision of the future We should point out that the hall has limited capacity so it is recommended that you book your place early

Contacts wwwfeportuguesapt

Please book your place by sending an email to

congressoespiritaportugues2013gmailcom

If you have any queries please dont hesitate to contact us

wwwfeportuguesapt

fepinformafeportuguesapt

focused on the same target which was to touching the soul of every one present in the huge audience awakening in those who were seeking knowledge a new opportunity for a new re-beginning Soon the videos of the talks will be available on Youtube Further information on the BUSS website below Article by Ana Marques

coordinator of Guiding Light Spiritist Society in Canterbury UK Photos Guilherme Almeida Future events in June in UK

Divaldo Franco on 9th June in London 10th June in Glasgow Therezinha Oliveira 23rd June to 30th June Talks in London and Wokingham

All posters and information are available on the BUSS website wwwbussorguk

busseventsgmailcom

BUSS - BRITISH UNION OF SPIRITIST SOCIETIES

2nd British Spiritist Congress Celebrating 30 Years of Spiritism

in the United Kingdom

With the main theme A new Era and the Dawning of a new Humanity the 2nd British Spiritist Congress held on 11th and 12th May 2013 at the main hall of the Quakers Friends House in London and organised by BUSS was a success Participants from 14 different countries were present namely France Norway Denmark Sweden Switzerland Japan Portugal Republic of Ireland Czech Republic Brazil Liechtenstein Germany Australia and Serbia During both Saturday and Sunday a total of 248 people enrolled for the event and were able to enjoy 15 talks offered by 13 speakers Charles Kempf General Secretary of the ISC Harold Dutra Dias Dr Andrei Moreira Speakers present from the UK Janet Duncan President of Allan Kardec Study Group - Centre for Spiritist Teachings London completing 30 years of foundation Guy Lyon Playfair Anne Christine Sinclair Silvia Gibbons Denise Ferrett Maria Gomes Davian Jessamy Elizabeth Freire Stevanin Tania and Tanya Moore

The event was hosted by Christopher Kinghorn There was a musical performance by Diego Carneiro p l a y i n g c e l l o s op r ano Maya Sapone and Martino Scovacricchi playing saxophone

Mark ing 30 years of Spiritism in the UK Janet Duncan founder of the Spiritist Movement in England gave a opening speech about the Pathway

to Enlightenment The event was broadcast worldwide through TVCEI (wwwtvceicom) and the talks were further broadcast by the Fraternity Radio and Good News Radio of

Brazil This great event focused primarily on bringing

together hearts and souls and also stressing the importance of diversity in our lives

13 speakers each one with their own different way of speaking and expressing themselves but

UNITED KINGDOM

ISC NEWSLETTER no48 14

THE SWEDISH SPIRITIST UNION

On 24th and 25th May Divaldo Pereira Franco was once again in Scandinavia This time in Gothenburg Sweden in a gathering with local Spiritist groups This year our companions from Finland also attended the event The eminent propagator of Spiritism gave a public talk in this city which was translated into Swedish and also a Seminar with the Spiritist Groups present

The Paring Vaumlgen till ljuset Spiritist Group and

the Leon Denis Spiritist Study Centre in Stockholm took part by selling Spiritist books and distributing messages at the Harmony Fair in Stockholm on 23rd and 24th last March It has been noticed during the Fair that people had a growing interest on the Spiritist Doctrine and its foundations

At the Vatumannen Bookstore in Stockholm Spiritist books continue to be sold and information leaflets on Spiritism distributed

The Leon Denis Spiritist Study Centre in

Stockholm is completing the study of the book Efter Doumlden (After Death) by Leon Denis which has already been translated into Swedish

Information spiritismensegmailcom

wwwgsfallankardecblogspotcom

wwwspiritismencom

httpspiritistiskaforbundetblogspotcouk

SWEDEN

2nd QUARTER 2013 15

accommodation and closer contact with people who normally would only have superficial contact one to each other at major events The Spirit Movement in Switzerland owes much to Mr Jorge Godinho who with his vast experience and great patience has been teaching and providing us with advice From 6th to 9th May we had

the great pleasure of having with us Haroldo Dutra a Spiritist speaker who travelled throughout Switzerland giving different talks and a short seminar With the election of the new board of directors of UCESS on 14th April 2013 Rejane Hostettler is now the director of UCESS and there are also 3 vice-directors Pedro Pereira Nelly Berchtold and Dilma Hambrock Rejane is doing a course on theology in Zurich and making Spiritism known amongst other religious denominations so that a new focus of work is being introduced

Two new Spiritist centres have been founded in this period CEBEM in Zurich (Kuumlsnacht) and GEFA in Bern (Zollikofen) In the Italian Switzerland we will be beginning a program of monthly

events in Italian in May (please see the poster) Most Spiritist centres have received a boost of new friends very knowledgeable in Spiritism joining these centres and are providing their help to the Spiritist movement with great motivation

Divaldo Franco spoke in Switzerland on 20th May 2013 in Zurich at G-19 a Spiritist institution In Winthertur at CEEAK he spoke on the following topic Rebellious Spirits and Peace For the Spiritist Centres in Switzerland please visit the website wwwspiritismech nellyberchtoldhotmailcom

UNION OF SPIRITIST STUDY CENTRES IN SWITZERLAND - UCESS

Members of the 10 Spiritist centres in Switzerland have been meeting regularly since

January 2013 for at least a week-end per month in the rural area of Berne to study the Spiritist doctrine Study a n d p r a c t i c e o f mediumship in the 1st half of the year and the Systematic Study of Spiritism is scheduled for 2nd half of the year This study promotes closer ties of friendship because of the study groups the shared

SWITZERLAND

CIVIL ASSOCIATION SOCRATES

We are working to legalise the Venezuelan Spiritist Federation Jose Vasquez L - ingjvasquezgmailcom

VENEZUELA URUGUAYAN SPIRITIST

FEDERATION - USF Seminar - Spiritual Assistance 60th Anniversary of Spiritist Centre Hacia la Verdad Organised by Spiritist Centre Hacia la Verdad Supported by Spiritist Assistance Department of the USF General Flores 4689 Info about the datehacialaverdadmontevideocom uyfeuruguaygmailcom wwwespiritismouruguaycom

URUGUAY

ISC NEWSLETTER no 48 16

SPIRITIST CENTRE LOVE

2 Groups Tallinn and Vosu Please write only in Esperanto Russian or Estonian to Mr August Kilk augustspiritismee

wwwspiritismee

ESTONIA

ALLAN KARDEC SPIRITIST GROUP

Please contact in Esperanto or Hungarian Szabadi Tibor satiborespgmailcom

HUNGARY

SPIRITISM IN FINLAND ALLAN KARDEC TYOumlRYHMAuml In April a talk on the Mediums Books was given in response to the invitation of the Spiritualist event held in Tampere

On 8th and 9th May the Spiritist movement in Finland had an invaluable help by Andrei Moreira on theme Depression from the Spiritist Perspective

The talks were held in Helsinki and Vaumlaumlksy and translated into Finnish We had 120 people who attended the event and apart from the organisers the audience was

100 Finnish It is with great joy that we inform that the Allan Kardec Tyoumlryhmauml ry (Allan Kardec Work Group) received their registration number from the Finnish authorities in May so becoming the first registered Spiritist association in Finland

We are always grateful for each seed of light which is sowed We hope to continue watering our garden of love

Contacts and information infoallankardecfi

infospiritismifi wwwspiritismifi

FINLAND

THE SPIRITIST MOVEMENT IN OTHER COUNTRIES

SPIRITISM IN BELARUS

The President of the Spiritist Group in Minsk (Belarusian Spiritist Group) is Andrei Latsinnik Vice-president Natalia Latsinnik and Spartak Severin is the contact for enquiries from other countries

The group is made up by 15 people From the translation into English or French the ISC newsletter is now also being translated into Russian by Spartak Severin Andrei and Natasha from the Spiritist Group of Minsk Please write only in English French Italian or Russian to spartak-severinyandexby httpbelarusspiritycom

BELARUS

2nd QUARTER 2013 17

Spiritism in Ecuador

In June an Executive Committee member of the ISC will be visiting Guayaquil to carry out tasks and Spiritist seminars organised by the South America Coordination Department

wwwespiritismoquitoblogspotcom

ECUADOR

UAE - UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

There are 3 Groups in the UAE The 3rd Meeting of Spiritist Philosophy of the Middle East took place on 23rd and 26th May with the participation of our dear friend Haroldo Dutra In February the Abu Dhabi Group organized the 6th Lecture Cycle for the 3 groups in the United Arab Emirates This time the guest speaker was

Anete Guimaraes httpespacodespertarblogspotcom

Cesar Augustus - GEEAD

contatogeeadgmailcom httpswwwfacebookcomgeeadabudhabi

Ana Elisa Vilhena ndash GECL -

grupoespiritacaminhodeluzgmailcom

ARAB EMIRATES

ALLAN KARDEC GROUP OF PRAGUE

27th May 2013 Prague

Seminar with Divaldo

Franco

Information allankardecseznamcz website in Czech wwwkardeccz

CZECH REPUBLIC

AUSTRALIA

Further information on the Spiritist Movement in some cities in Australia please visit the following website wwwallankardecsydneyorg allankardecsydneygmailcom

POLAND SPIRITISM IN WARSAW

Further information only in Polish on the website wwwspirytyzmpl konradspirytyzmpl wwwrivailpl

INTERNATIONAL SPIRITIST COUNCIL IN ARGENTINE

EDICEI at the 39th International Book Fair of

Buenos Aires

From 23rd April to 13th May 2013 as it always happened since 2009 the International Spiritist Council through Edicei Iberoamerica and under sponsored by the Argentine Spiritist Federation took part as an exhibitor in the 39th International Book Fair of Buenos Aires

50 countries 500 exhibitors took part in it and attracted 1200000 visitors On the stand more than 100 Spiritist books were on display including the basic works of the codification by Allan Kardec and the Spanish edition of the Spiritist Magazine of 1860 by Allan Kardec

After the event a sale of 455 books were registered including works of the following publishers namely Joanna de Angelis 18 de abril and the CEA

GLOBAL CAMPAIGN IN DEFENCE OF LIFE by the International Spiritist Council The artwork has been approved at the meeting in Havana Cuba It is made up of images in posters in different languages Artwork prepared by the team of the Portuguese Spiritist Federation To send the translation please email Helena on 7helenabbgmailcom Soon available in all languages on the ISC website wwwinterceicom

Spiritist Friend Please visit the website of the International Spiritist Council which is often updated httpceispiriteorges httpceispiriteorgpt httpceispiriteorg httpceispiriteorgfr wwwinterceicom

Page 7: INTERNATIONAL SPIRITIST COUNCIL · Divaldo spoke about mediumship, but with an initial approach that studied the characteristics of human beings and their different levels of consciousness

UNIVERSAL LOVE AND CHARITY

SOCIETY

The website wwwcubaespiritaorg has an event summary of the whole 7th World Spiritist Congress and all activities at Spiritist Centres in Cuba This will be the official website of Cuban Spiritists Received by Manuel de la Cruz lacruzmannyaolcom

CUBA

SPIRITIST STUDY CENTRE BUENA NUEVA

Besides their weekly activities the CEEBN participated in the 7th World Spiritist Congress held in Cuba

The Annual General Meeting for the election of the new board of directors for 2013 and 2014 was held in March

A Seminar and other Spiritist activities in August will be held by Dr Andrei Moreira from Brazil Odete Letelier espiritismoespiritismocl wwwespiritismocl

CHILE

SPANISH SPIRITIST FEDERATION

The issue 5 of the Spiritist Magazine of the Spanish Spiritist Federation has just been released It is covers the propagation of Spiritist culture and is

SPAIN

UNITED STATES SPIRITIST COUNCIL

On 20th April 2013 the 7th US Spiritist Symposium was held in the city of Dallas Texas The event takes place once a year and is supported and attended by the National Spiritist movement Each year on Sunday following the Symposium which takes place on Saturday the Annual General Meeting of the US Spiritist Council (USSC) is held and attended by the leaders of Spiritist Groups from various parts of the country

This year the Symposium started with an opening ceremony that included all board members of the USSC going onto stage and paying a tribute to the United States as a nation which guarantees complete freedom of religious expression to its citizens unlike what is happening in many other countries At the opening the USSC President also

UNITED STATES

SPIRITIST FEDERATION OF EL SALVADOR

8 Spiritist centres affiliated to the SFS Ciacuterculo de Investigaciones Psicofiacutesicas Sociedad Siacutequico Filosoacutefico Espiritual El Mesiacuteas La Verdad es para Todos Spiritist Centre Faro del Saber Spiritist Centre Virgilio Manzanares Pentildea Spiritist Centre Sociedad de Mediums Spiritist Centre Juan Diego de Guadalupe Spiritist Centre El Buen Amigo Spiritist Centre

Rosa Amelia Campos

federacionelsalvadorespiritaorg

EL SALVADOR

called for a minute of silence for all the victims affected by the terrorist event in Boston and by the disaster which happened at a chemical plant in Texas lsquoWe are extremely blessed to being able to live in a country like

the United States of Americarsquo said USSC President Mauricio Cisneros The event continued with lectures in one hall and short training seminars for Spiritist workers in another The event was closed by a representative of the Spiritist movement of Illinois when he made an invitation to the next Symposium of 2014 in Chicago Further details are available at

wwwspiritistsymposiumorg wwwspiritistus infospiritistus

2nd QUARTER 2013 7

positive feedback from lay readers and also resulted in the creation of many websites about Chico Xavier in the Spiritualist environment

The FSC continues to collaborate with the publishing of the Revue Spirite (Spiritist Magazine) in French which has been distributed at the 7th World Spiritist Congress and the ISC Annual General Meeting in Havana

The first Spiritist book for children in French has been published by Librairie Spirite Francophone in Quebec It is the result of a wide co-operation at Francophone level with the Committee for Moral Education of the Coordination Department of Europe with illustrations by Claudia Milena Werdine Alborghetti and translated by Marcia Kempf The book can be purchased at Amazon

On 9th March 2013 a local meeting of Southeast groups took place in Arles and on 28th April 2013 an E a s t e r n F r a n c e gathering took place in Hielle with a seminar on Healing run by Rosenite Alves On 30th March 2013 a seminar in Brittany run by Alirio Cerqueira Filho on mental energy

and self-healing took place On 25th amp 26th May the annual Symposium took place at the Wegimont Castle in Belgium On 8th and 9th June a local Southeast meeting will take place in Denice and on 22nd and 23rd June a local Northern meeting will be held in Lievain

Further information wwwspiritismeorg

the official publication of the Spanish Spiritist Federation and has an article dedicated to the History of Spiritism in the world

Themes developed in this issue include from precursors such as Swendborg Jackson Davis and the Fox sisters and moving on to the Spiritist revelation codified by Allan Kardec the Society of Spiritist Studies of Paris and the Revue Spirite (The Spiritist Magazine)It also included articles on the dedicated work of the mediums of the second half of the 19th century Arthur Conan Doyle and an overview of Spiritism as it stands in the world today

It featured the great work of propagation started by the Spiritist Magazine of the Spanish Spiritist Federation through the Propagation Committee with the distribution of the magazine to many universities libraries and cultural centres mainly in Madrid Castilla-La Mancha and Castilla-Leon This magazine focused primarily on the dissemination to non-Spiritist individuals trying to reclaim the space that Spiritist proposes to better understand and face the difficulties people encounter in this world of trials and regeneration

Also the speaker Haroldo Dutra a Judge from the state of Minas Gerais made a tour of Madrid Valencia and Alicante from 15th to 17th May 2013 giving talks and holding meetings

Healing through Forgiveness and The new Era were some of the themes spoken during his tour through several European countries to promote Spiritism

infoespiritismocc wwwespiritismocc

FRENCH SPIRITIST COUNCIL

The French Spiritist Council (FSC) was represented at the 7th World Spiritist Congress and Annual General Meeting of the ISC in Havana by Luc Moussu and Charles Kempf They are making the arrangements to launch a new campaign Amar a Vida (Loving Life) promoted by the ISC and carried out by the Portuguese Spiritist Federation The material has been translated into French and will be shown on the cover of next issue of the Voie Spirite (Spiritist Way) newsletter (cover on the left-hand side)

The FSC in co-operation with LMSF keeps promoting books with large stock at EDICEI in Brasilia which are being sold as second hand for 990 Euros This has been bringing not only income to the ISC and the French speaking movement but also greatly increasing the dissemination of the works of Andre Luiz in France It has attracted much

FRANCE

Executive Committee of ISC

General Secretary Charles Kempf (France) 1st Secretary A Cesar Perri de Carvalho (Brazil) 2nd Secretary Elsa Rossi (United Kingdom) 1st Treasurer Roberto Versiani ( Brazil) 2nd Treasurer Jean-Paul Evrard (Belgium) Eduardo Santos (Uruguay) Edwin Bravo (Guatemala) Faacutebio Villarraga (Colombia) Jussara Korngold (USA) Milciades Lezcano ( Paraguay) Vitor Mora Feria ( Portugal) Salvador Martin ( Spain)

ISC NEWSLETTER no 48 8

DUTCH SPIRITIST COUNCIL

Events promoted by the Dutch Spiritist Council

Haroldo Dutra Dias Theme Paul amp Stephen amp the Parables of Jesus

19th May 2013 from 1pm to 6pm Tel 0630 050 947 with Rikeli or

0651 085 180 with Rosana grupoespiritaemanuelhotmailcom

Divaldo Pereira Franco Theme Psychology of Gratitude 22nd May 7 to 9 pm Venue Florence Steenvoorde

Building Generaal Spoorlaan 62 ndash 2285 CH - Rijswijk

Enrolment by e-mail infonrspnl Contact 0645 267 902 with

Maria Moraes

Iris and Claudio Sinoti 1st theme The Psychology of Love 29th May 730 pm to 930 pm Address Hembrugstraat 156 - 2nd floor

1013 XC Amsterdam Enrolment by e-mail infonrspnl Contact 0645 267 902 with Maria Moraes or

0644 357 538 with Nilson 2nd theme Reflecting the soul the Spiritist

Psychology of Joanna de Angelis 30th May 8pm to 10pm Venue Stichting Muzenis

Cliffordstraat 38 1051 GV Amsterdam

Enrolment svjangelisgmailcom Contact 0615 091 659 with Dalva

12th National Spiritist Meeting Speakers Charles Kempf Claudia Werdine and

Milena Alborghetti Theme Happiness from a Spiritist viewpoint Date Sunday 25th August 2013 Address Hembrugstraat 156 - 2nd floor 1013 XC Amsterdam Contact Maria Moraes - nrspiritismeyahoocombr

amp infonrspnl

4th Congress on Medicine amp Spirituality Date Saturday 12th October 2013 Venue Florence Steenvoorde Building Address Generaal Spoorlaan 62 2285 CH - Rijswijk Contact Maria Moraes - infonrspnl

nrspevenementengmailcom Full information available soon For further information please visit the Dutch Spiritist Council website at wwwnrspnl Maria Moraesinfonrspnl

HOLLAND

Excellent quality and quantity of Spiritist Courses and Conferences available on the

website of TV CEI Have you already visited it

wwwtvceicom

THE FRANCISCAN SPIRITIST CENTRE

infojoanadecusaorgau wwwjoanadecusaorgau For further information please see page 17

AUSTRALIA

CADENA HELIOSOPHICA GUATEMALTECA

A quarterly talk by the Cadeia Heliosophica Guatemalteca (Guatemalan Philosophical Study Network) took place on 27th April 203 in Joya Cuilco Huehuetenango district in Guatemala propagating the teachings of the codification of Allan Kardec providing

medical care and handing out of free medicines moral education for children and youth and a talk for over 900 brothers and sisters from different villages who arrived by lorry or on foot to listen to the teachings of the Master Jesus The board of directors also met to arrange the next quarterly conference which will take place on 27th July in the village of Ninchim San Marcos with Alipio Gonzalez who will be coming from Venezuela

It has been reported that Spiritist centre of the village of Tuimuca joined the Guatemalan Philosophical Study

Network On the first Sunday of each month the Grupo de Damas Heliosophicas Rogelia Marroquin de Bravo (Group of Ladies of Philosophical Study Network Rogelia Marroquin de Bravo) organizes a breakfast lecture for the benefit of the Charity and Light School at a restaurant in the city centre and on Sunday 5th May Mothers Day had

been successfully celebrated Edwin Bravo wwwguatespiritaorg

GUATEMALA

2nd QUARTER 2013 9

THE PORTUGUESE SPIRITIST

FEDERATION

Spiritist Culture Gathering

The Association of Propagators of Spiritism of Portugal APSP held the 9th Spiritist Culture Gathering on 20th and 21st April 2013 at the municipal hall A Casa da Muacutesica (The Music Hall) in the beautiful town of Obidos again with a full house The overall feeling was that of satisfaction for getting together and exchanging knowledge

Contacts wwwadeportugalorgjornadas

Training for Workers

Saturday 11th May 2013 from 3 to 5 pm at the Portuguese Spiritist Federations headquarters a workshop on accountancy for Spiritist Workers took place

Spiritist Gathering of Algarve

The Spiritist Gathering of Algarve organized by the Nuacutecleo Familiar Espiacuterita do Mentor Amigo (Spiritist Family Centre of the Friend Mentor) took place on Sunday 12th May 2013 at the Eva Hotel in Faro It was a time of glad getting together and exchange of knowledge

Contact 965 053 743 nfe_mentoramigosapopt

Seminar by Iris and Claudio Sinoti

On 19th May the Portuguese Spiritist Federation held at its headquarters a seminar on topics related to psychology addressed in the book Refletindo a Alma (Reflecting the Soul) and others from the psychological works of the Spirit of Joanna de Angelis Iris and Claudio Sinotti who are workers from the Mansatildeo do Caminho (Mansion of the Way) Bahia joined us in the event

Contacts geralfeportuguesapt

Health and Light Project

The 3rd Light and Health Project where topics related to physical mental and spiritual health will be discussed is being organized by the Allan Kardec

PORTUGAL ITALIAN SPIRITIST UNION

The Italian Spiritist Union through its President Regina Piccoli informs that they have all the slides of the Systematic Study of Spiritism volume I and II translated into Italian They are completing the review to draw up a booklet as a complement to the study of the classes Info italiausigmailcom

ITALY

SPIRITIST FRATERNITY GOD LOVE amp CHARITY

Saturday 16th March 2013 - Self-discovery

Seminar - with the active participation of speakers Dr Andrei Moreira from Brazil Prof Jose Angel Velasquez from El Salvador Dr Edwin Bravo and Prof Johana Bravo from Guatemala and Dr Maria de la Gracia Ender from Panama The photos of the seminar are on Fedac Facebook at wwwfedacorgpa We had an audience of 200 people with a great interest by the participants

2 Active participation at the 7th World Spiritist Congress with a Fedac delegation of 15 people among Spiritists and accompanying people

3 We are now facing a temporary difficulty with the moving to new premises The venue we had for 26 years is being sold and we have to vacate the property

We are still looking for a place to move to within our budget

Dr Maria de la Gracia Ender wwwfedacorgpa fedacpanamahotmailcom

PANAMA

PARAGUAY SPIRITIST CENTRE

The 10th Spiritist Week in Paraguay took place and was organised by the Paraguayan Spiritist Federacion

On 13th 14th and 15th September the 2nd South American Spiritist Congress took place in

Asuncion centroespiritaparaguayo_cepariedernetpy

PARAGUAY

ISC NEWSLETTER no 48 10

SPIRITIST UNION OF MOZAMBIQUE

The Spiritist Union of Mozambique was integrated to the International Spiritist Council during the Annual General Meeting in Cuba President Elide Carneiro Address Av Alfredo Keil 12 ndash Maputo Mobile +25 8844 613 251 unemomozgmailcom

wwwfacebookcomCEAKMZ

MOZAMBIQUE

MEXICAN SPIRITIST FEDERATION

The Mexican Federation of Spiritist Associations reports the activities below Federacioacuten Espiacuterita de Tamaulipas y las Huastecas (Spiritist Federation of Tamaulipas and the Huastecas) FETH

21st December 2012 talk and presentation of Spiritist poems by Spiritist youngsters in Valles S a n L u i s Potosi at the 1 8 t h anniversary of the Tomasito Herrera Spiritist Centre 21st to 23rd December 2012 talks and f e l l o w s h i p gathering of the Spiritist centres

of Mante Tamaulipas 1st January 2013 meeting of leaders of the FETH groups and fraternal gatherings January and February 2013 the official setup of t h e C o o r d i n a t i o n Department of Spiritist Centres from the Central Nor thwes t W estern Eastern Southeast regions of the country affiliated to the Mexican Federation of

Spiritist Associations local meeting of Spiritist centres in Mante and seminars held with the theme Death Spiritual Colonies Mental Irradiation and Spiritist Healing Celebration of 70th Anniversary de Spiritist Centre Love Light and Truth from Mante Anniversary de Spiritist Centre Love Light and Truth from Mante local report on the 7th International S p i r i t i s t C o n g r e s s participation in the meeting of the International Spiritist Council

MEXICO

meeting to strengthen and unify centres affiliated to the Federation and related institutions in the cities

of Valles Victoria Tampico Mante Pueblo Viejo Veracruz workshops held on Spiritist healing and fraternal assistance in the south of Veracruz and Tlaxcala

19th April interview about Spiritism and mediumship for the Radio Net 1060 AM group from the city of Juarez Chihuahua on 19th April

2013 Setting up of Spiritist Study Groups in Tabasco Quintana Roo Guadalajara and Sonora

Jorge Camargo jorgecamargozuritagmailcom

espiritismoenmexicohotmailcom

wwwespiritismoenmexicoorg

2nd QUARTER 2013 11

The meeting of CEICA took place with the presence of Mexico Panama and Honduras

CEYCA coordinator Dr Edwin Bravo

with Divaldo Franco and Patricia Rodriguez from the

Tamaulip Federation

Talk by Jorge Zurita at the

Congress in Cuba

THE SPIRITIST CHRISTIAN COMMUNION FRANCISCO CANDIDO XAVIER

wwwspiritismjp

JAPAN

GEEAK - NORWAY

The GEEAK Oslo continues to develop its

activities at the following address Dronningens gt

23 room 512 City Centre Oslo

Study of The Spirits books on Wednesdays at

6pm

Meimei Group (children and parents) on every

Saturday at 1230pm

Jussara Korngold was in Oslo for the second time

giving a talk at the Oslo Literature Hall on 14th

February 2013 with the theme Boosting your inner

Power

Spiritist Studies in Norway

Euripides Barsanulfo Spiritist Group - Bergen

Study of The Spirits book and the Gospel according

to Spiritism on Sundays from 730 to 9pm -

Information spiritismeibergengmailcom

Chico Xavier Spiritist Group - Trondheim

Meetings Wednesdays from 615 to 715pm

Contact spiritismentrondheimgmailcom

Bernt Torstenson Spiritist Study Group - Oslo

Meetings in Norwegian on Wednesdays from 1 to 2

pm Fredrikkebygget (UiO - Universitetet i Oslo

Blindern - Oslo) next to the Fredrikke Kapell

Contact sssbernttorstensongmailcom

Paul of Tarsus Spiritist Group Stavanger

Virtual meetings on Wednesdays from 730 to 9pm

Contact gepstavangergmailcom

httpspiritismestavangerblogspotno

postgeeaknorgecom

wwwgeeaknorgecom

NORWAY SPIRITIST SOCIETY

OF IRELAND

Andrei Moreira gave a talk in Dublin on 15th May 2013 on the theme Self Love a Healing Path

Divaldo Franco will be again in Dublin with the talk Mediumship Challenges and Blessings

on 11th June 2013 On 23rd May 2013 a talk by Sergio Thiesen Information sbertozzogmailcom

wwwallankardec-irelandorg

REPUBLIC OF IRELAND

ISC NEWSLETTER no48 12

GEEAK- LUXEMBOURG

Allan Kardec Spiritist Group of Luxembourg

You are all invited for a conference by Divaldo Pereira Franco on the theme Psychology of Gratitude Friday 7th June 2013 730pm to 1030pm Centre Socieacutetaire 29 rue de Strasbourg L-2560 - Luxembourg - Gare allankardecluxyahoofr wwwgroupespiriteallankardecluxcom

LUXEMBOURG

SPIRITIST FEDERATION OF PERU

The conference by Luis Hu took place in March

feperu_espiritayahoocom httpperuespiritablogspotcom

PERU

ALLAN KARDEC SPIRITIST GROUP - NZ

infoallankardecorgnz

httpallankardecorgnz

NEW ZEALAND

Study Group and AME GEEAK the Spiritist Medical Doctors Association of Coimbra

Contacts wwwgeeakpt

23rd Spiritist Gathering

of Lisbon

At the CEPC Centro Espiacuterita Perdatildeo e Caridade (Forgiveness and Charity Spiritist Centre) The themes are based on the book by Joanna de Angelis entitled Constelaccedilatildeo Familiar (Family

Constellation) From 10am to 5pm

With the participation of the Lisbon Spiritist Music Group and Choir and the Jogral Espiacuterita de Lisboa (Lisbon Spiritist Minstrel) as well as he participation of the DIJ of CEPC

Contacts wwwceperdaoecaridadept

June 17th CONCESP

The National Gathering of Spiritist Children will take place this year in Lisbon on 1st June From 1030 am to 430 pm at the Pousada da Juventude do Parque das Naccedilotildees with the theme Once upon a time the birds of heaven We look forward to seeing you with a lot of disposition and willingness in participating

Enrolment Forms concesp2013gmailcom

httpdijfeportuguesaptconcesp2013

Spiritist Meeting of Alentejo

On Sunday 2nd June from 10am to 6pm the Spiritist Meeting of Alentejo 2013 will take place at the D Fernando Hotel in Evora with the theme Spiritism in Alentejo

Contacts

cefeevoragmailcom

Cultural Spiritist

Meeting 2013

The Cultural Spiritist Meeting 2013 will be dedicated to the theme of The Portuguese Spiritist Movement and

2nd QUARTER 2013 13

will take place on Sunday 30th June from 2pm at its headquarters in Amadora Get to know better the history of the Portuguese Spiritist Movement See you there

Contacts wwwfeportuguesapt

Tel 214 975 754

geralfeportuguesapt

Featured

The Portuguese Spiritist Congress 2013

It will be held in Leiria at the premises of the Spiritist Association of Leiria on 16th amp 17th November under the theme of Mediumship a vision of the future We should point out that the hall has limited capacity so it is recommended that you book your place early

Contacts wwwfeportuguesapt

Please book your place by sending an email to

congressoespiritaportugues2013gmailcom

If you have any queries please dont hesitate to contact us

wwwfeportuguesapt

fepinformafeportuguesapt

focused on the same target which was to touching the soul of every one present in the huge audience awakening in those who were seeking knowledge a new opportunity for a new re-beginning Soon the videos of the talks will be available on Youtube Further information on the BUSS website below Article by Ana Marques

coordinator of Guiding Light Spiritist Society in Canterbury UK Photos Guilherme Almeida Future events in June in UK

Divaldo Franco on 9th June in London 10th June in Glasgow Therezinha Oliveira 23rd June to 30th June Talks in London and Wokingham

All posters and information are available on the BUSS website wwwbussorguk

busseventsgmailcom

BUSS - BRITISH UNION OF SPIRITIST SOCIETIES

2nd British Spiritist Congress Celebrating 30 Years of Spiritism

in the United Kingdom

With the main theme A new Era and the Dawning of a new Humanity the 2nd British Spiritist Congress held on 11th and 12th May 2013 at the main hall of the Quakers Friends House in London and organised by BUSS was a success Participants from 14 different countries were present namely France Norway Denmark Sweden Switzerland Japan Portugal Republic of Ireland Czech Republic Brazil Liechtenstein Germany Australia and Serbia During both Saturday and Sunday a total of 248 people enrolled for the event and were able to enjoy 15 talks offered by 13 speakers Charles Kempf General Secretary of the ISC Harold Dutra Dias Dr Andrei Moreira Speakers present from the UK Janet Duncan President of Allan Kardec Study Group - Centre for Spiritist Teachings London completing 30 years of foundation Guy Lyon Playfair Anne Christine Sinclair Silvia Gibbons Denise Ferrett Maria Gomes Davian Jessamy Elizabeth Freire Stevanin Tania and Tanya Moore

The event was hosted by Christopher Kinghorn There was a musical performance by Diego Carneiro p l a y i n g c e l l o s op r ano Maya Sapone and Martino Scovacricchi playing saxophone

Mark ing 30 years of Spiritism in the UK Janet Duncan founder of the Spiritist Movement in England gave a opening speech about the Pathway

to Enlightenment The event was broadcast worldwide through TVCEI (wwwtvceicom) and the talks were further broadcast by the Fraternity Radio and Good News Radio of

Brazil This great event focused primarily on bringing

together hearts and souls and also stressing the importance of diversity in our lives

13 speakers each one with their own different way of speaking and expressing themselves but

UNITED KINGDOM

ISC NEWSLETTER no48 14

THE SWEDISH SPIRITIST UNION

On 24th and 25th May Divaldo Pereira Franco was once again in Scandinavia This time in Gothenburg Sweden in a gathering with local Spiritist groups This year our companions from Finland also attended the event The eminent propagator of Spiritism gave a public talk in this city which was translated into Swedish and also a Seminar with the Spiritist Groups present

The Paring Vaumlgen till ljuset Spiritist Group and

the Leon Denis Spiritist Study Centre in Stockholm took part by selling Spiritist books and distributing messages at the Harmony Fair in Stockholm on 23rd and 24th last March It has been noticed during the Fair that people had a growing interest on the Spiritist Doctrine and its foundations

At the Vatumannen Bookstore in Stockholm Spiritist books continue to be sold and information leaflets on Spiritism distributed

The Leon Denis Spiritist Study Centre in

Stockholm is completing the study of the book Efter Doumlden (After Death) by Leon Denis which has already been translated into Swedish

Information spiritismensegmailcom

wwwgsfallankardecblogspotcom

wwwspiritismencom

httpspiritistiskaforbundetblogspotcouk

SWEDEN

2nd QUARTER 2013 15

accommodation and closer contact with people who normally would only have superficial contact one to each other at major events The Spirit Movement in Switzerland owes much to Mr Jorge Godinho who with his vast experience and great patience has been teaching and providing us with advice From 6th to 9th May we had

the great pleasure of having with us Haroldo Dutra a Spiritist speaker who travelled throughout Switzerland giving different talks and a short seminar With the election of the new board of directors of UCESS on 14th April 2013 Rejane Hostettler is now the director of UCESS and there are also 3 vice-directors Pedro Pereira Nelly Berchtold and Dilma Hambrock Rejane is doing a course on theology in Zurich and making Spiritism known amongst other religious denominations so that a new focus of work is being introduced

Two new Spiritist centres have been founded in this period CEBEM in Zurich (Kuumlsnacht) and GEFA in Bern (Zollikofen) In the Italian Switzerland we will be beginning a program of monthly

events in Italian in May (please see the poster) Most Spiritist centres have received a boost of new friends very knowledgeable in Spiritism joining these centres and are providing their help to the Spiritist movement with great motivation

Divaldo Franco spoke in Switzerland on 20th May 2013 in Zurich at G-19 a Spiritist institution In Winthertur at CEEAK he spoke on the following topic Rebellious Spirits and Peace For the Spiritist Centres in Switzerland please visit the website wwwspiritismech nellyberchtoldhotmailcom

UNION OF SPIRITIST STUDY CENTRES IN SWITZERLAND - UCESS

Members of the 10 Spiritist centres in Switzerland have been meeting regularly since

January 2013 for at least a week-end per month in the rural area of Berne to study the Spiritist doctrine Study a n d p r a c t i c e o f mediumship in the 1st half of the year and the Systematic Study of Spiritism is scheduled for 2nd half of the year This study promotes closer ties of friendship because of the study groups the shared

SWITZERLAND

CIVIL ASSOCIATION SOCRATES

We are working to legalise the Venezuelan Spiritist Federation Jose Vasquez L - ingjvasquezgmailcom

VENEZUELA URUGUAYAN SPIRITIST

FEDERATION - USF Seminar - Spiritual Assistance 60th Anniversary of Spiritist Centre Hacia la Verdad Organised by Spiritist Centre Hacia la Verdad Supported by Spiritist Assistance Department of the USF General Flores 4689 Info about the datehacialaverdadmontevideocom uyfeuruguaygmailcom wwwespiritismouruguaycom

URUGUAY

ISC NEWSLETTER no 48 16

SPIRITIST CENTRE LOVE

2 Groups Tallinn and Vosu Please write only in Esperanto Russian or Estonian to Mr August Kilk augustspiritismee

wwwspiritismee

ESTONIA

ALLAN KARDEC SPIRITIST GROUP

Please contact in Esperanto or Hungarian Szabadi Tibor satiborespgmailcom

HUNGARY

SPIRITISM IN FINLAND ALLAN KARDEC TYOumlRYHMAuml In April a talk on the Mediums Books was given in response to the invitation of the Spiritualist event held in Tampere

On 8th and 9th May the Spiritist movement in Finland had an invaluable help by Andrei Moreira on theme Depression from the Spiritist Perspective

The talks were held in Helsinki and Vaumlaumlksy and translated into Finnish We had 120 people who attended the event and apart from the organisers the audience was

100 Finnish It is with great joy that we inform that the Allan Kardec Tyoumlryhmauml ry (Allan Kardec Work Group) received their registration number from the Finnish authorities in May so becoming the first registered Spiritist association in Finland

We are always grateful for each seed of light which is sowed We hope to continue watering our garden of love

Contacts and information infoallankardecfi

infospiritismifi wwwspiritismifi

FINLAND

THE SPIRITIST MOVEMENT IN OTHER COUNTRIES

SPIRITISM IN BELARUS

The President of the Spiritist Group in Minsk (Belarusian Spiritist Group) is Andrei Latsinnik Vice-president Natalia Latsinnik and Spartak Severin is the contact for enquiries from other countries

The group is made up by 15 people From the translation into English or French the ISC newsletter is now also being translated into Russian by Spartak Severin Andrei and Natasha from the Spiritist Group of Minsk Please write only in English French Italian or Russian to spartak-severinyandexby httpbelarusspiritycom

BELARUS

2nd QUARTER 2013 17

Spiritism in Ecuador

In June an Executive Committee member of the ISC will be visiting Guayaquil to carry out tasks and Spiritist seminars organised by the South America Coordination Department

wwwespiritismoquitoblogspotcom

ECUADOR

UAE - UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

There are 3 Groups in the UAE The 3rd Meeting of Spiritist Philosophy of the Middle East took place on 23rd and 26th May with the participation of our dear friend Haroldo Dutra In February the Abu Dhabi Group organized the 6th Lecture Cycle for the 3 groups in the United Arab Emirates This time the guest speaker was

Anete Guimaraes httpespacodespertarblogspotcom

Cesar Augustus - GEEAD

contatogeeadgmailcom httpswwwfacebookcomgeeadabudhabi

Ana Elisa Vilhena ndash GECL -

grupoespiritacaminhodeluzgmailcom

ARAB EMIRATES

ALLAN KARDEC GROUP OF PRAGUE

27th May 2013 Prague

Seminar with Divaldo

Franco

Information allankardecseznamcz website in Czech wwwkardeccz

CZECH REPUBLIC

AUSTRALIA

Further information on the Spiritist Movement in some cities in Australia please visit the following website wwwallankardecsydneyorg allankardecsydneygmailcom

POLAND SPIRITISM IN WARSAW

Further information only in Polish on the website wwwspirytyzmpl konradspirytyzmpl wwwrivailpl

INTERNATIONAL SPIRITIST COUNCIL IN ARGENTINE

EDICEI at the 39th International Book Fair of

Buenos Aires

From 23rd April to 13th May 2013 as it always happened since 2009 the International Spiritist Council through Edicei Iberoamerica and under sponsored by the Argentine Spiritist Federation took part as an exhibitor in the 39th International Book Fair of Buenos Aires

50 countries 500 exhibitors took part in it and attracted 1200000 visitors On the stand more than 100 Spiritist books were on display including the basic works of the codification by Allan Kardec and the Spanish edition of the Spiritist Magazine of 1860 by Allan Kardec

After the event a sale of 455 books were registered including works of the following publishers namely Joanna de Angelis 18 de abril and the CEA

GLOBAL CAMPAIGN IN DEFENCE OF LIFE by the International Spiritist Council The artwork has been approved at the meeting in Havana Cuba It is made up of images in posters in different languages Artwork prepared by the team of the Portuguese Spiritist Federation To send the translation please email Helena on 7helenabbgmailcom Soon available in all languages on the ISC website wwwinterceicom

Spiritist Friend Please visit the website of the International Spiritist Council which is often updated httpceispiriteorges httpceispiriteorgpt httpceispiriteorg httpceispiriteorgfr wwwinterceicom

Page 8: INTERNATIONAL SPIRITIST COUNCIL · Divaldo spoke about mediumship, but with an initial approach that studied the characteristics of human beings and their different levels of consciousness

positive feedback from lay readers and also resulted in the creation of many websites about Chico Xavier in the Spiritualist environment

The FSC continues to collaborate with the publishing of the Revue Spirite (Spiritist Magazine) in French which has been distributed at the 7th World Spiritist Congress and the ISC Annual General Meeting in Havana

The first Spiritist book for children in French has been published by Librairie Spirite Francophone in Quebec It is the result of a wide co-operation at Francophone level with the Committee for Moral Education of the Coordination Department of Europe with illustrations by Claudia Milena Werdine Alborghetti and translated by Marcia Kempf The book can be purchased at Amazon

On 9th March 2013 a local meeting of Southeast groups took place in Arles and on 28th April 2013 an E a s t e r n F r a n c e gathering took place in Hielle with a seminar on Healing run by Rosenite Alves On 30th March 2013 a seminar in Brittany run by Alirio Cerqueira Filho on mental energy

and self-healing took place On 25th amp 26th May the annual Symposium took place at the Wegimont Castle in Belgium On 8th and 9th June a local Southeast meeting will take place in Denice and on 22nd and 23rd June a local Northern meeting will be held in Lievain

Further information wwwspiritismeorg

the official publication of the Spanish Spiritist Federation and has an article dedicated to the History of Spiritism in the world

Themes developed in this issue include from precursors such as Swendborg Jackson Davis and the Fox sisters and moving on to the Spiritist revelation codified by Allan Kardec the Society of Spiritist Studies of Paris and the Revue Spirite (The Spiritist Magazine)It also included articles on the dedicated work of the mediums of the second half of the 19th century Arthur Conan Doyle and an overview of Spiritism as it stands in the world today

It featured the great work of propagation started by the Spiritist Magazine of the Spanish Spiritist Federation through the Propagation Committee with the distribution of the magazine to many universities libraries and cultural centres mainly in Madrid Castilla-La Mancha and Castilla-Leon This magazine focused primarily on the dissemination to non-Spiritist individuals trying to reclaim the space that Spiritist proposes to better understand and face the difficulties people encounter in this world of trials and regeneration

Also the speaker Haroldo Dutra a Judge from the state of Minas Gerais made a tour of Madrid Valencia and Alicante from 15th to 17th May 2013 giving talks and holding meetings

Healing through Forgiveness and The new Era were some of the themes spoken during his tour through several European countries to promote Spiritism

infoespiritismocc wwwespiritismocc

FRENCH SPIRITIST COUNCIL

The French Spiritist Council (FSC) was represented at the 7th World Spiritist Congress and Annual General Meeting of the ISC in Havana by Luc Moussu and Charles Kempf They are making the arrangements to launch a new campaign Amar a Vida (Loving Life) promoted by the ISC and carried out by the Portuguese Spiritist Federation The material has been translated into French and will be shown on the cover of next issue of the Voie Spirite (Spiritist Way) newsletter (cover on the left-hand side)

The FSC in co-operation with LMSF keeps promoting books with large stock at EDICEI in Brasilia which are being sold as second hand for 990 Euros This has been bringing not only income to the ISC and the French speaking movement but also greatly increasing the dissemination of the works of Andre Luiz in France It has attracted much

FRANCE

Executive Committee of ISC

General Secretary Charles Kempf (France) 1st Secretary A Cesar Perri de Carvalho (Brazil) 2nd Secretary Elsa Rossi (United Kingdom) 1st Treasurer Roberto Versiani ( Brazil) 2nd Treasurer Jean-Paul Evrard (Belgium) Eduardo Santos (Uruguay) Edwin Bravo (Guatemala) Faacutebio Villarraga (Colombia) Jussara Korngold (USA) Milciades Lezcano ( Paraguay) Vitor Mora Feria ( Portugal) Salvador Martin ( Spain)

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DUTCH SPIRITIST COUNCIL

Events promoted by the Dutch Spiritist Council

Haroldo Dutra Dias Theme Paul amp Stephen amp the Parables of Jesus

19th May 2013 from 1pm to 6pm Tel 0630 050 947 with Rikeli or

0651 085 180 with Rosana grupoespiritaemanuelhotmailcom

Divaldo Pereira Franco Theme Psychology of Gratitude 22nd May 7 to 9 pm Venue Florence Steenvoorde

Building Generaal Spoorlaan 62 ndash 2285 CH - Rijswijk

Enrolment by e-mail infonrspnl Contact 0645 267 902 with

Maria Moraes

Iris and Claudio Sinoti 1st theme The Psychology of Love 29th May 730 pm to 930 pm Address Hembrugstraat 156 - 2nd floor

1013 XC Amsterdam Enrolment by e-mail infonrspnl Contact 0645 267 902 with Maria Moraes or

0644 357 538 with Nilson 2nd theme Reflecting the soul the Spiritist

Psychology of Joanna de Angelis 30th May 8pm to 10pm Venue Stichting Muzenis

Cliffordstraat 38 1051 GV Amsterdam

Enrolment svjangelisgmailcom Contact 0615 091 659 with Dalva

12th National Spiritist Meeting Speakers Charles Kempf Claudia Werdine and

Milena Alborghetti Theme Happiness from a Spiritist viewpoint Date Sunday 25th August 2013 Address Hembrugstraat 156 - 2nd floor 1013 XC Amsterdam Contact Maria Moraes - nrspiritismeyahoocombr

amp infonrspnl

4th Congress on Medicine amp Spirituality Date Saturday 12th October 2013 Venue Florence Steenvoorde Building Address Generaal Spoorlaan 62 2285 CH - Rijswijk Contact Maria Moraes - infonrspnl

nrspevenementengmailcom Full information available soon For further information please visit the Dutch Spiritist Council website at wwwnrspnl Maria Moraesinfonrspnl

HOLLAND

Excellent quality and quantity of Spiritist Courses and Conferences available on the

website of TV CEI Have you already visited it

wwwtvceicom

THE FRANCISCAN SPIRITIST CENTRE

infojoanadecusaorgau wwwjoanadecusaorgau For further information please see page 17

AUSTRALIA

CADENA HELIOSOPHICA GUATEMALTECA

A quarterly talk by the Cadeia Heliosophica Guatemalteca (Guatemalan Philosophical Study Network) took place on 27th April 203 in Joya Cuilco Huehuetenango district in Guatemala propagating the teachings of the codification of Allan Kardec providing

medical care and handing out of free medicines moral education for children and youth and a talk for over 900 brothers and sisters from different villages who arrived by lorry or on foot to listen to the teachings of the Master Jesus The board of directors also met to arrange the next quarterly conference which will take place on 27th July in the village of Ninchim San Marcos with Alipio Gonzalez who will be coming from Venezuela

It has been reported that Spiritist centre of the village of Tuimuca joined the Guatemalan Philosophical Study

Network On the first Sunday of each month the Grupo de Damas Heliosophicas Rogelia Marroquin de Bravo (Group of Ladies of Philosophical Study Network Rogelia Marroquin de Bravo) organizes a breakfast lecture for the benefit of the Charity and Light School at a restaurant in the city centre and on Sunday 5th May Mothers Day had

been successfully celebrated Edwin Bravo wwwguatespiritaorg

GUATEMALA

2nd QUARTER 2013 9

THE PORTUGUESE SPIRITIST

FEDERATION

Spiritist Culture Gathering

The Association of Propagators of Spiritism of Portugal APSP held the 9th Spiritist Culture Gathering on 20th and 21st April 2013 at the municipal hall A Casa da Muacutesica (The Music Hall) in the beautiful town of Obidos again with a full house The overall feeling was that of satisfaction for getting together and exchanging knowledge

Contacts wwwadeportugalorgjornadas

Training for Workers

Saturday 11th May 2013 from 3 to 5 pm at the Portuguese Spiritist Federations headquarters a workshop on accountancy for Spiritist Workers took place

Spiritist Gathering of Algarve

The Spiritist Gathering of Algarve organized by the Nuacutecleo Familiar Espiacuterita do Mentor Amigo (Spiritist Family Centre of the Friend Mentor) took place on Sunday 12th May 2013 at the Eva Hotel in Faro It was a time of glad getting together and exchange of knowledge

Contact 965 053 743 nfe_mentoramigosapopt

Seminar by Iris and Claudio Sinoti

On 19th May the Portuguese Spiritist Federation held at its headquarters a seminar on topics related to psychology addressed in the book Refletindo a Alma (Reflecting the Soul) and others from the psychological works of the Spirit of Joanna de Angelis Iris and Claudio Sinotti who are workers from the Mansatildeo do Caminho (Mansion of the Way) Bahia joined us in the event

Contacts geralfeportuguesapt

Health and Light Project

The 3rd Light and Health Project where topics related to physical mental and spiritual health will be discussed is being organized by the Allan Kardec

PORTUGAL ITALIAN SPIRITIST UNION

The Italian Spiritist Union through its President Regina Piccoli informs that they have all the slides of the Systematic Study of Spiritism volume I and II translated into Italian They are completing the review to draw up a booklet as a complement to the study of the classes Info italiausigmailcom

ITALY

SPIRITIST FRATERNITY GOD LOVE amp CHARITY

Saturday 16th March 2013 - Self-discovery

Seminar - with the active participation of speakers Dr Andrei Moreira from Brazil Prof Jose Angel Velasquez from El Salvador Dr Edwin Bravo and Prof Johana Bravo from Guatemala and Dr Maria de la Gracia Ender from Panama The photos of the seminar are on Fedac Facebook at wwwfedacorgpa We had an audience of 200 people with a great interest by the participants

2 Active participation at the 7th World Spiritist Congress with a Fedac delegation of 15 people among Spiritists and accompanying people

3 We are now facing a temporary difficulty with the moving to new premises The venue we had for 26 years is being sold and we have to vacate the property

We are still looking for a place to move to within our budget

Dr Maria de la Gracia Ender wwwfedacorgpa fedacpanamahotmailcom

PANAMA

PARAGUAY SPIRITIST CENTRE

The 10th Spiritist Week in Paraguay took place and was organised by the Paraguayan Spiritist Federacion

On 13th 14th and 15th September the 2nd South American Spiritist Congress took place in

Asuncion centroespiritaparaguayo_cepariedernetpy

PARAGUAY

ISC NEWSLETTER no 48 10

SPIRITIST UNION OF MOZAMBIQUE

The Spiritist Union of Mozambique was integrated to the International Spiritist Council during the Annual General Meeting in Cuba President Elide Carneiro Address Av Alfredo Keil 12 ndash Maputo Mobile +25 8844 613 251 unemomozgmailcom

wwwfacebookcomCEAKMZ

MOZAMBIQUE

MEXICAN SPIRITIST FEDERATION

The Mexican Federation of Spiritist Associations reports the activities below Federacioacuten Espiacuterita de Tamaulipas y las Huastecas (Spiritist Federation of Tamaulipas and the Huastecas) FETH

21st December 2012 talk and presentation of Spiritist poems by Spiritist youngsters in Valles S a n L u i s Potosi at the 1 8 t h anniversary of the Tomasito Herrera Spiritist Centre 21st to 23rd December 2012 talks and f e l l o w s h i p gathering of the Spiritist centres

of Mante Tamaulipas 1st January 2013 meeting of leaders of the FETH groups and fraternal gatherings January and February 2013 the official setup of t h e C o o r d i n a t i o n Department of Spiritist Centres from the Central Nor thwes t W estern Eastern Southeast regions of the country affiliated to the Mexican Federation of

Spiritist Associations local meeting of Spiritist centres in Mante and seminars held with the theme Death Spiritual Colonies Mental Irradiation and Spiritist Healing Celebration of 70th Anniversary de Spiritist Centre Love Light and Truth from Mante Anniversary de Spiritist Centre Love Light and Truth from Mante local report on the 7th International S p i r i t i s t C o n g r e s s participation in the meeting of the International Spiritist Council

MEXICO

meeting to strengthen and unify centres affiliated to the Federation and related institutions in the cities

of Valles Victoria Tampico Mante Pueblo Viejo Veracruz workshops held on Spiritist healing and fraternal assistance in the south of Veracruz and Tlaxcala

19th April interview about Spiritism and mediumship for the Radio Net 1060 AM group from the city of Juarez Chihuahua on 19th April

2013 Setting up of Spiritist Study Groups in Tabasco Quintana Roo Guadalajara and Sonora

Jorge Camargo jorgecamargozuritagmailcom

espiritismoenmexicohotmailcom

wwwespiritismoenmexicoorg

2nd QUARTER 2013 11

The meeting of CEICA took place with the presence of Mexico Panama and Honduras

CEYCA coordinator Dr Edwin Bravo

with Divaldo Franco and Patricia Rodriguez from the

Tamaulip Federation

Talk by Jorge Zurita at the

Congress in Cuba

THE SPIRITIST CHRISTIAN COMMUNION FRANCISCO CANDIDO XAVIER

wwwspiritismjp

JAPAN

GEEAK - NORWAY

The GEEAK Oslo continues to develop its

activities at the following address Dronningens gt

23 room 512 City Centre Oslo

Study of The Spirits books on Wednesdays at

6pm

Meimei Group (children and parents) on every

Saturday at 1230pm

Jussara Korngold was in Oslo for the second time

giving a talk at the Oslo Literature Hall on 14th

February 2013 with the theme Boosting your inner

Power

Spiritist Studies in Norway

Euripides Barsanulfo Spiritist Group - Bergen

Study of The Spirits book and the Gospel according

to Spiritism on Sundays from 730 to 9pm -

Information spiritismeibergengmailcom

Chico Xavier Spiritist Group - Trondheim

Meetings Wednesdays from 615 to 715pm

Contact spiritismentrondheimgmailcom

Bernt Torstenson Spiritist Study Group - Oslo

Meetings in Norwegian on Wednesdays from 1 to 2

pm Fredrikkebygget (UiO - Universitetet i Oslo

Blindern - Oslo) next to the Fredrikke Kapell

Contact sssbernttorstensongmailcom

Paul of Tarsus Spiritist Group Stavanger

Virtual meetings on Wednesdays from 730 to 9pm

Contact gepstavangergmailcom

httpspiritismestavangerblogspotno

postgeeaknorgecom

wwwgeeaknorgecom

NORWAY SPIRITIST SOCIETY

OF IRELAND

Andrei Moreira gave a talk in Dublin on 15th May 2013 on the theme Self Love a Healing Path

Divaldo Franco will be again in Dublin with the talk Mediumship Challenges and Blessings

on 11th June 2013 On 23rd May 2013 a talk by Sergio Thiesen Information sbertozzogmailcom

wwwallankardec-irelandorg

REPUBLIC OF IRELAND

ISC NEWSLETTER no48 12

GEEAK- LUXEMBOURG

Allan Kardec Spiritist Group of Luxembourg

You are all invited for a conference by Divaldo Pereira Franco on the theme Psychology of Gratitude Friday 7th June 2013 730pm to 1030pm Centre Socieacutetaire 29 rue de Strasbourg L-2560 - Luxembourg - Gare allankardecluxyahoofr wwwgroupespiriteallankardecluxcom

LUXEMBOURG

SPIRITIST FEDERATION OF PERU

The conference by Luis Hu took place in March

feperu_espiritayahoocom httpperuespiritablogspotcom

PERU

ALLAN KARDEC SPIRITIST GROUP - NZ

infoallankardecorgnz

httpallankardecorgnz

NEW ZEALAND

Study Group and AME GEEAK the Spiritist Medical Doctors Association of Coimbra

Contacts wwwgeeakpt

23rd Spiritist Gathering

of Lisbon

At the CEPC Centro Espiacuterita Perdatildeo e Caridade (Forgiveness and Charity Spiritist Centre) The themes are based on the book by Joanna de Angelis entitled Constelaccedilatildeo Familiar (Family

Constellation) From 10am to 5pm

With the participation of the Lisbon Spiritist Music Group and Choir and the Jogral Espiacuterita de Lisboa (Lisbon Spiritist Minstrel) as well as he participation of the DIJ of CEPC

Contacts wwwceperdaoecaridadept

June 17th CONCESP

The National Gathering of Spiritist Children will take place this year in Lisbon on 1st June From 1030 am to 430 pm at the Pousada da Juventude do Parque das Naccedilotildees with the theme Once upon a time the birds of heaven We look forward to seeing you with a lot of disposition and willingness in participating

Enrolment Forms concesp2013gmailcom

httpdijfeportuguesaptconcesp2013

Spiritist Meeting of Alentejo

On Sunday 2nd June from 10am to 6pm the Spiritist Meeting of Alentejo 2013 will take place at the D Fernando Hotel in Evora with the theme Spiritism in Alentejo

Contacts

cefeevoragmailcom

Cultural Spiritist

Meeting 2013

The Cultural Spiritist Meeting 2013 will be dedicated to the theme of The Portuguese Spiritist Movement and

2nd QUARTER 2013 13

will take place on Sunday 30th June from 2pm at its headquarters in Amadora Get to know better the history of the Portuguese Spiritist Movement See you there

Contacts wwwfeportuguesapt

Tel 214 975 754

geralfeportuguesapt

Featured

The Portuguese Spiritist Congress 2013

It will be held in Leiria at the premises of the Spiritist Association of Leiria on 16th amp 17th November under the theme of Mediumship a vision of the future We should point out that the hall has limited capacity so it is recommended that you book your place early

Contacts wwwfeportuguesapt

Please book your place by sending an email to

congressoespiritaportugues2013gmailcom

If you have any queries please dont hesitate to contact us

wwwfeportuguesapt

fepinformafeportuguesapt

focused on the same target which was to touching the soul of every one present in the huge audience awakening in those who were seeking knowledge a new opportunity for a new re-beginning Soon the videos of the talks will be available on Youtube Further information on the BUSS website below Article by Ana Marques

coordinator of Guiding Light Spiritist Society in Canterbury UK Photos Guilherme Almeida Future events in June in UK

Divaldo Franco on 9th June in London 10th June in Glasgow Therezinha Oliveira 23rd June to 30th June Talks in London and Wokingham

All posters and information are available on the BUSS website wwwbussorguk

busseventsgmailcom

BUSS - BRITISH UNION OF SPIRITIST SOCIETIES

2nd British Spiritist Congress Celebrating 30 Years of Spiritism

in the United Kingdom

With the main theme A new Era and the Dawning of a new Humanity the 2nd British Spiritist Congress held on 11th and 12th May 2013 at the main hall of the Quakers Friends House in London and organised by BUSS was a success Participants from 14 different countries were present namely France Norway Denmark Sweden Switzerland Japan Portugal Republic of Ireland Czech Republic Brazil Liechtenstein Germany Australia and Serbia During both Saturday and Sunday a total of 248 people enrolled for the event and were able to enjoy 15 talks offered by 13 speakers Charles Kempf General Secretary of the ISC Harold Dutra Dias Dr Andrei Moreira Speakers present from the UK Janet Duncan President of Allan Kardec Study Group - Centre for Spiritist Teachings London completing 30 years of foundation Guy Lyon Playfair Anne Christine Sinclair Silvia Gibbons Denise Ferrett Maria Gomes Davian Jessamy Elizabeth Freire Stevanin Tania and Tanya Moore

The event was hosted by Christopher Kinghorn There was a musical performance by Diego Carneiro p l a y i n g c e l l o s op r ano Maya Sapone and Martino Scovacricchi playing saxophone

Mark ing 30 years of Spiritism in the UK Janet Duncan founder of the Spiritist Movement in England gave a opening speech about the Pathway

to Enlightenment The event was broadcast worldwide through TVCEI (wwwtvceicom) and the talks were further broadcast by the Fraternity Radio and Good News Radio of

Brazil This great event focused primarily on bringing

together hearts and souls and also stressing the importance of diversity in our lives

13 speakers each one with their own different way of speaking and expressing themselves but

UNITED KINGDOM

ISC NEWSLETTER no48 14

THE SWEDISH SPIRITIST UNION

On 24th and 25th May Divaldo Pereira Franco was once again in Scandinavia This time in Gothenburg Sweden in a gathering with local Spiritist groups This year our companions from Finland also attended the event The eminent propagator of Spiritism gave a public talk in this city which was translated into Swedish and also a Seminar with the Spiritist Groups present

The Paring Vaumlgen till ljuset Spiritist Group and

the Leon Denis Spiritist Study Centre in Stockholm took part by selling Spiritist books and distributing messages at the Harmony Fair in Stockholm on 23rd and 24th last March It has been noticed during the Fair that people had a growing interest on the Spiritist Doctrine and its foundations

At the Vatumannen Bookstore in Stockholm Spiritist books continue to be sold and information leaflets on Spiritism distributed

The Leon Denis Spiritist Study Centre in

Stockholm is completing the study of the book Efter Doumlden (After Death) by Leon Denis which has already been translated into Swedish

Information spiritismensegmailcom

wwwgsfallankardecblogspotcom

wwwspiritismencom

httpspiritistiskaforbundetblogspotcouk

SWEDEN

2nd QUARTER 2013 15

accommodation and closer contact with people who normally would only have superficial contact one to each other at major events The Spirit Movement in Switzerland owes much to Mr Jorge Godinho who with his vast experience and great patience has been teaching and providing us with advice From 6th to 9th May we had

the great pleasure of having with us Haroldo Dutra a Spiritist speaker who travelled throughout Switzerland giving different talks and a short seminar With the election of the new board of directors of UCESS on 14th April 2013 Rejane Hostettler is now the director of UCESS and there are also 3 vice-directors Pedro Pereira Nelly Berchtold and Dilma Hambrock Rejane is doing a course on theology in Zurich and making Spiritism known amongst other religious denominations so that a new focus of work is being introduced

Two new Spiritist centres have been founded in this period CEBEM in Zurich (Kuumlsnacht) and GEFA in Bern (Zollikofen) In the Italian Switzerland we will be beginning a program of monthly

events in Italian in May (please see the poster) Most Spiritist centres have received a boost of new friends very knowledgeable in Spiritism joining these centres and are providing their help to the Spiritist movement with great motivation

Divaldo Franco spoke in Switzerland on 20th May 2013 in Zurich at G-19 a Spiritist institution In Winthertur at CEEAK he spoke on the following topic Rebellious Spirits and Peace For the Spiritist Centres in Switzerland please visit the website wwwspiritismech nellyberchtoldhotmailcom

UNION OF SPIRITIST STUDY CENTRES IN SWITZERLAND - UCESS

Members of the 10 Spiritist centres in Switzerland have been meeting regularly since

January 2013 for at least a week-end per month in the rural area of Berne to study the Spiritist doctrine Study a n d p r a c t i c e o f mediumship in the 1st half of the year and the Systematic Study of Spiritism is scheduled for 2nd half of the year This study promotes closer ties of friendship because of the study groups the shared

SWITZERLAND

CIVIL ASSOCIATION SOCRATES

We are working to legalise the Venezuelan Spiritist Federation Jose Vasquez L - ingjvasquezgmailcom

VENEZUELA URUGUAYAN SPIRITIST

FEDERATION - USF Seminar - Spiritual Assistance 60th Anniversary of Spiritist Centre Hacia la Verdad Organised by Spiritist Centre Hacia la Verdad Supported by Spiritist Assistance Department of the USF General Flores 4689 Info about the datehacialaverdadmontevideocom uyfeuruguaygmailcom wwwespiritismouruguaycom

URUGUAY

ISC NEWSLETTER no 48 16

SPIRITIST CENTRE LOVE

2 Groups Tallinn and Vosu Please write only in Esperanto Russian or Estonian to Mr August Kilk augustspiritismee

wwwspiritismee

ESTONIA

ALLAN KARDEC SPIRITIST GROUP

Please contact in Esperanto or Hungarian Szabadi Tibor satiborespgmailcom

HUNGARY

SPIRITISM IN FINLAND ALLAN KARDEC TYOumlRYHMAuml In April a talk on the Mediums Books was given in response to the invitation of the Spiritualist event held in Tampere

On 8th and 9th May the Spiritist movement in Finland had an invaluable help by Andrei Moreira on theme Depression from the Spiritist Perspective

The talks were held in Helsinki and Vaumlaumlksy and translated into Finnish We had 120 people who attended the event and apart from the organisers the audience was

100 Finnish It is with great joy that we inform that the Allan Kardec Tyoumlryhmauml ry (Allan Kardec Work Group) received their registration number from the Finnish authorities in May so becoming the first registered Spiritist association in Finland

We are always grateful for each seed of light which is sowed We hope to continue watering our garden of love

Contacts and information infoallankardecfi

infospiritismifi wwwspiritismifi

FINLAND

THE SPIRITIST MOVEMENT IN OTHER COUNTRIES

SPIRITISM IN BELARUS

The President of the Spiritist Group in Minsk (Belarusian Spiritist Group) is Andrei Latsinnik Vice-president Natalia Latsinnik and Spartak Severin is the contact for enquiries from other countries

The group is made up by 15 people From the translation into English or French the ISC newsletter is now also being translated into Russian by Spartak Severin Andrei and Natasha from the Spiritist Group of Minsk Please write only in English French Italian or Russian to spartak-severinyandexby httpbelarusspiritycom

BELARUS

2nd QUARTER 2013 17

Spiritism in Ecuador

In June an Executive Committee member of the ISC will be visiting Guayaquil to carry out tasks and Spiritist seminars organised by the South America Coordination Department

wwwespiritismoquitoblogspotcom

ECUADOR

UAE - UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

There are 3 Groups in the UAE The 3rd Meeting of Spiritist Philosophy of the Middle East took place on 23rd and 26th May with the participation of our dear friend Haroldo Dutra In February the Abu Dhabi Group organized the 6th Lecture Cycle for the 3 groups in the United Arab Emirates This time the guest speaker was

Anete Guimaraes httpespacodespertarblogspotcom

Cesar Augustus - GEEAD

contatogeeadgmailcom httpswwwfacebookcomgeeadabudhabi

Ana Elisa Vilhena ndash GECL -

grupoespiritacaminhodeluzgmailcom

ARAB EMIRATES

ALLAN KARDEC GROUP OF PRAGUE

27th May 2013 Prague

Seminar with Divaldo

Franco

Information allankardecseznamcz website in Czech wwwkardeccz

CZECH REPUBLIC

AUSTRALIA

Further information on the Spiritist Movement in some cities in Australia please visit the following website wwwallankardecsydneyorg allankardecsydneygmailcom

POLAND SPIRITISM IN WARSAW

Further information only in Polish on the website wwwspirytyzmpl konradspirytyzmpl wwwrivailpl

INTERNATIONAL SPIRITIST COUNCIL IN ARGENTINE

EDICEI at the 39th International Book Fair of

Buenos Aires

From 23rd April to 13th May 2013 as it always happened since 2009 the International Spiritist Council through Edicei Iberoamerica and under sponsored by the Argentine Spiritist Federation took part as an exhibitor in the 39th International Book Fair of Buenos Aires

50 countries 500 exhibitors took part in it and attracted 1200000 visitors On the stand more than 100 Spiritist books were on display including the basic works of the codification by Allan Kardec and the Spanish edition of the Spiritist Magazine of 1860 by Allan Kardec

After the event a sale of 455 books were registered including works of the following publishers namely Joanna de Angelis 18 de abril and the CEA

GLOBAL CAMPAIGN IN DEFENCE OF LIFE by the International Spiritist Council The artwork has been approved at the meeting in Havana Cuba It is made up of images in posters in different languages Artwork prepared by the team of the Portuguese Spiritist Federation To send the translation please email Helena on 7helenabbgmailcom Soon available in all languages on the ISC website wwwinterceicom

Spiritist Friend Please visit the website of the International Spiritist Council which is often updated httpceispiriteorges httpceispiriteorgpt httpceispiriteorg httpceispiriteorgfr wwwinterceicom

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DUTCH SPIRITIST COUNCIL

Events promoted by the Dutch Spiritist Council

Haroldo Dutra Dias Theme Paul amp Stephen amp the Parables of Jesus

19th May 2013 from 1pm to 6pm Tel 0630 050 947 with Rikeli or

0651 085 180 with Rosana grupoespiritaemanuelhotmailcom

Divaldo Pereira Franco Theme Psychology of Gratitude 22nd May 7 to 9 pm Venue Florence Steenvoorde

Building Generaal Spoorlaan 62 ndash 2285 CH - Rijswijk

Enrolment by e-mail infonrspnl Contact 0645 267 902 with

Maria Moraes

Iris and Claudio Sinoti 1st theme The Psychology of Love 29th May 730 pm to 930 pm Address Hembrugstraat 156 - 2nd floor

1013 XC Amsterdam Enrolment by e-mail infonrspnl Contact 0645 267 902 with Maria Moraes or

0644 357 538 with Nilson 2nd theme Reflecting the soul the Spiritist

Psychology of Joanna de Angelis 30th May 8pm to 10pm Venue Stichting Muzenis

Cliffordstraat 38 1051 GV Amsterdam

Enrolment svjangelisgmailcom Contact 0615 091 659 with Dalva

12th National Spiritist Meeting Speakers Charles Kempf Claudia Werdine and

Milena Alborghetti Theme Happiness from a Spiritist viewpoint Date Sunday 25th August 2013 Address Hembrugstraat 156 - 2nd floor 1013 XC Amsterdam Contact Maria Moraes - nrspiritismeyahoocombr

amp infonrspnl

4th Congress on Medicine amp Spirituality Date Saturday 12th October 2013 Venue Florence Steenvoorde Building Address Generaal Spoorlaan 62 2285 CH - Rijswijk Contact Maria Moraes - infonrspnl

nrspevenementengmailcom Full information available soon For further information please visit the Dutch Spiritist Council website at wwwnrspnl Maria Moraesinfonrspnl

HOLLAND

Excellent quality and quantity of Spiritist Courses and Conferences available on the

website of TV CEI Have you already visited it

wwwtvceicom

THE FRANCISCAN SPIRITIST CENTRE

infojoanadecusaorgau wwwjoanadecusaorgau For further information please see page 17

AUSTRALIA

CADENA HELIOSOPHICA GUATEMALTECA

A quarterly talk by the Cadeia Heliosophica Guatemalteca (Guatemalan Philosophical Study Network) took place on 27th April 203 in Joya Cuilco Huehuetenango district in Guatemala propagating the teachings of the codification of Allan Kardec providing

medical care and handing out of free medicines moral education for children and youth and a talk for over 900 brothers and sisters from different villages who arrived by lorry or on foot to listen to the teachings of the Master Jesus The board of directors also met to arrange the next quarterly conference which will take place on 27th July in the village of Ninchim San Marcos with Alipio Gonzalez who will be coming from Venezuela

It has been reported that Spiritist centre of the village of Tuimuca joined the Guatemalan Philosophical Study

Network On the first Sunday of each month the Grupo de Damas Heliosophicas Rogelia Marroquin de Bravo (Group of Ladies of Philosophical Study Network Rogelia Marroquin de Bravo) organizes a breakfast lecture for the benefit of the Charity and Light School at a restaurant in the city centre and on Sunday 5th May Mothers Day had

been successfully celebrated Edwin Bravo wwwguatespiritaorg

GUATEMALA

2nd QUARTER 2013 9

THE PORTUGUESE SPIRITIST

FEDERATION

Spiritist Culture Gathering

The Association of Propagators of Spiritism of Portugal APSP held the 9th Spiritist Culture Gathering on 20th and 21st April 2013 at the municipal hall A Casa da Muacutesica (The Music Hall) in the beautiful town of Obidos again with a full house The overall feeling was that of satisfaction for getting together and exchanging knowledge

Contacts wwwadeportugalorgjornadas

Training for Workers

Saturday 11th May 2013 from 3 to 5 pm at the Portuguese Spiritist Federations headquarters a workshop on accountancy for Spiritist Workers took place

Spiritist Gathering of Algarve

The Spiritist Gathering of Algarve organized by the Nuacutecleo Familiar Espiacuterita do Mentor Amigo (Spiritist Family Centre of the Friend Mentor) took place on Sunday 12th May 2013 at the Eva Hotel in Faro It was a time of glad getting together and exchange of knowledge

Contact 965 053 743 nfe_mentoramigosapopt

Seminar by Iris and Claudio Sinoti

On 19th May the Portuguese Spiritist Federation held at its headquarters a seminar on topics related to psychology addressed in the book Refletindo a Alma (Reflecting the Soul) and others from the psychological works of the Spirit of Joanna de Angelis Iris and Claudio Sinotti who are workers from the Mansatildeo do Caminho (Mansion of the Way) Bahia joined us in the event

Contacts geralfeportuguesapt

Health and Light Project

The 3rd Light and Health Project where topics related to physical mental and spiritual health will be discussed is being organized by the Allan Kardec

PORTUGAL ITALIAN SPIRITIST UNION

The Italian Spiritist Union through its President Regina Piccoli informs that they have all the slides of the Systematic Study of Spiritism volume I and II translated into Italian They are completing the review to draw up a booklet as a complement to the study of the classes Info italiausigmailcom

ITALY

SPIRITIST FRATERNITY GOD LOVE amp CHARITY

Saturday 16th March 2013 - Self-discovery

Seminar - with the active participation of speakers Dr Andrei Moreira from Brazil Prof Jose Angel Velasquez from El Salvador Dr Edwin Bravo and Prof Johana Bravo from Guatemala and Dr Maria de la Gracia Ender from Panama The photos of the seminar are on Fedac Facebook at wwwfedacorgpa We had an audience of 200 people with a great interest by the participants

2 Active participation at the 7th World Spiritist Congress with a Fedac delegation of 15 people among Spiritists and accompanying people

3 We are now facing a temporary difficulty with the moving to new premises The venue we had for 26 years is being sold and we have to vacate the property

We are still looking for a place to move to within our budget

Dr Maria de la Gracia Ender wwwfedacorgpa fedacpanamahotmailcom

PANAMA

PARAGUAY SPIRITIST CENTRE

The 10th Spiritist Week in Paraguay took place and was organised by the Paraguayan Spiritist Federacion

On 13th 14th and 15th September the 2nd South American Spiritist Congress took place in

Asuncion centroespiritaparaguayo_cepariedernetpy

PARAGUAY

ISC NEWSLETTER no 48 10

SPIRITIST UNION OF MOZAMBIQUE

The Spiritist Union of Mozambique was integrated to the International Spiritist Council during the Annual General Meeting in Cuba President Elide Carneiro Address Av Alfredo Keil 12 ndash Maputo Mobile +25 8844 613 251 unemomozgmailcom

wwwfacebookcomCEAKMZ

MOZAMBIQUE

MEXICAN SPIRITIST FEDERATION

The Mexican Federation of Spiritist Associations reports the activities below Federacioacuten Espiacuterita de Tamaulipas y las Huastecas (Spiritist Federation of Tamaulipas and the Huastecas) FETH

21st December 2012 talk and presentation of Spiritist poems by Spiritist youngsters in Valles S a n L u i s Potosi at the 1 8 t h anniversary of the Tomasito Herrera Spiritist Centre 21st to 23rd December 2012 talks and f e l l o w s h i p gathering of the Spiritist centres

of Mante Tamaulipas 1st January 2013 meeting of leaders of the FETH groups and fraternal gatherings January and February 2013 the official setup of t h e C o o r d i n a t i o n Department of Spiritist Centres from the Central Nor thwes t W estern Eastern Southeast regions of the country affiliated to the Mexican Federation of

Spiritist Associations local meeting of Spiritist centres in Mante and seminars held with the theme Death Spiritual Colonies Mental Irradiation and Spiritist Healing Celebration of 70th Anniversary de Spiritist Centre Love Light and Truth from Mante Anniversary de Spiritist Centre Love Light and Truth from Mante local report on the 7th International S p i r i t i s t C o n g r e s s participation in the meeting of the International Spiritist Council

MEXICO

meeting to strengthen and unify centres affiliated to the Federation and related institutions in the cities

of Valles Victoria Tampico Mante Pueblo Viejo Veracruz workshops held on Spiritist healing and fraternal assistance in the south of Veracruz and Tlaxcala

19th April interview about Spiritism and mediumship for the Radio Net 1060 AM group from the city of Juarez Chihuahua on 19th April

2013 Setting up of Spiritist Study Groups in Tabasco Quintana Roo Guadalajara and Sonora

Jorge Camargo jorgecamargozuritagmailcom

espiritismoenmexicohotmailcom

wwwespiritismoenmexicoorg

2nd QUARTER 2013 11

The meeting of CEICA took place with the presence of Mexico Panama and Honduras

CEYCA coordinator Dr Edwin Bravo

with Divaldo Franco and Patricia Rodriguez from the

Tamaulip Federation

Talk by Jorge Zurita at the

Congress in Cuba

THE SPIRITIST CHRISTIAN COMMUNION FRANCISCO CANDIDO XAVIER

wwwspiritismjp

JAPAN

GEEAK - NORWAY

The GEEAK Oslo continues to develop its

activities at the following address Dronningens gt

23 room 512 City Centre Oslo

Study of The Spirits books on Wednesdays at

6pm

Meimei Group (children and parents) on every

Saturday at 1230pm

Jussara Korngold was in Oslo for the second time

giving a talk at the Oslo Literature Hall on 14th

February 2013 with the theme Boosting your inner

Power

Spiritist Studies in Norway

Euripides Barsanulfo Spiritist Group - Bergen

Study of The Spirits book and the Gospel according

to Spiritism on Sundays from 730 to 9pm -

Information spiritismeibergengmailcom

Chico Xavier Spiritist Group - Trondheim

Meetings Wednesdays from 615 to 715pm

Contact spiritismentrondheimgmailcom

Bernt Torstenson Spiritist Study Group - Oslo

Meetings in Norwegian on Wednesdays from 1 to 2

pm Fredrikkebygget (UiO - Universitetet i Oslo

Blindern - Oslo) next to the Fredrikke Kapell

Contact sssbernttorstensongmailcom

Paul of Tarsus Spiritist Group Stavanger

Virtual meetings on Wednesdays from 730 to 9pm

Contact gepstavangergmailcom

httpspiritismestavangerblogspotno

postgeeaknorgecom

wwwgeeaknorgecom

NORWAY SPIRITIST SOCIETY

OF IRELAND

Andrei Moreira gave a talk in Dublin on 15th May 2013 on the theme Self Love a Healing Path

Divaldo Franco will be again in Dublin with the talk Mediumship Challenges and Blessings

on 11th June 2013 On 23rd May 2013 a talk by Sergio Thiesen Information sbertozzogmailcom

wwwallankardec-irelandorg

REPUBLIC OF IRELAND

ISC NEWSLETTER no48 12

GEEAK- LUXEMBOURG

Allan Kardec Spiritist Group of Luxembourg

You are all invited for a conference by Divaldo Pereira Franco on the theme Psychology of Gratitude Friday 7th June 2013 730pm to 1030pm Centre Socieacutetaire 29 rue de Strasbourg L-2560 - Luxembourg - Gare allankardecluxyahoofr wwwgroupespiriteallankardecluxcom

LUXEMBOURG

SPIRITIST FEDERATION OF PERU

The conference by Luis Hu took place in March

feperu_espiritayahoocom httpperuespiritablogspotcom

PERU

ALLAN KARDEC SPIRITIST GROUP - NZ

infoallankardecorgnz

httpallankardecorgnz

NEW ZEALAND

Study Group and AME GEEAK the Spiritist Medical Doctors Association of Coimbra

Contacts wwwgeeakpt

23rd Spiritist Gathering

of Lisbon

At the CEPC Centro Espiacuterita Perdatildeo e Caridade (Forgiveness and Charity Spiritist Centre) The themes are based on the book by Joanna de Angelis entitled Constelaccedilatildeo Familiar (Family

Constellation) From 10am to 5pm

With the participation of the Lisbon Spiritist Music Group and Choir and the Jogral Espiacuterita de Lisboa (Lisbon Spiritist Minstrel) as well as he participation of the DIJ of CEPC

Contacts wwwceperdaoecaridadept

June 17th CONCESP

The National Gathering of Spiritist Children will take place this year in Lisbon on 1st June From 1030 am to 430 pm at the Pousada da Juventude do Parque das Naccedilotildees with the theme Once upon a time the birds of heaven We look forward to seeing you with a lot of disposition and willingness in participating

Enrolment Forms concesp2013gmailcom

httpdijfeportuguesaptconcesp2013

Spiritist Meeting of Alentejo

On Sunday 2nd June from 10am to 6pm the Spiritist Meeting of Alentejo 2013 will take place at the D Fernando Hotel in Evora with the theme Spiritism in Alentejo

Contacts

cefeevoragmailcom

Cultural Spiritist

Meeting 2013

The Cultural Spiritist Meeting 2013 will be dedicated to the theme of The Portuguese Spiritist Movement and

2nd QUARTER 2013 13

will take place on Sunday 30th June from 2pm at its headquarters in Amadora Get to know better the history of the Portuguese Spiritist Movement See you there

Contacts wwwfeportuguesapt

Tel 214 975 754

geralfeportuguesapt

Featured

The Portuguese Spiritist Congress 2013

It will be held in Leiria at the premises of the Spiritist Association of Leiria on 16th amp 17th November under the theme of Mediumship a vision of the future We should point out that the hall has limited capacity so it is recommended that you book your place early

Contacts wwwfeportuguesapt

Please book your place by sending an email to

congressoespiritaportugues2013gmailcom

If you have any queries please dont hesitate to contact us

wwwfeportuguesapt

fepinformafeportuguesapt

focused on the same target which was to touching the soul of every one present in the huge audience awakening in those who were seeking knowledge a new opportunity for a new re-beginning Soon the videos of the talks will be available on Youtube Further information on the BUSS website below Article by Ana Marques

coordinator of Guiding Light Spiritist Society in Canterbury UK Photos Guilherme Almeida Future events in June in UK

Divaldo Franco on 9th June in London 10th June in Glasgow Therezinha Oliveira 23rd June to 30th June Talks in London and Wokingham

All posters and information are available on the BUSS website wwwbussorguk

busseventsgmailcom

BUSS - BRITISH UNION OF SPIRITIST SOCIETIES

2nd British Spiritist Congress Celebrating 30 Years of Spiritism

in the United Kingdom

With the main theme A new Era and the Dawning of a new Humanity the 2nd British Spiritist Congress held on 11th and 12th May 2013 at the main hall of the Quakers Friends House in London and organised by BUSS was a success Participants from 14 different countries were present namely France Norway Denmark Sweden Switzerland Japan Portugal Republic of Ireland Czech Republic Brazil Liechtenstein Germany Australia and Serbia During both Saturday and Sunday a total of 248 people enrolled for the event and were able to enjoy 15 talks offered by 13 speakers Charles Kempf General Secretary of the ISC Harold Dutra Dias Dr Andrei Moreira Speakers present from the UK Janet Duncan President of Allan Kardec Study Group - Centre for Spiritist Teachings London completing 30 years of foundation Guy Lyon Playfair Anne Christine Sinclair Silvia Gibbons Denise Ferrett Maria Gomes Davian Jessamy Elizabeth Freire Stevanin Tania and Tanya Moore

The event was hosted by Christopher Kinghorn There was a musical performance by Diego Carneiro p l a y i n g c e l l o s op r ano Maya Sapone and Martino Scovacricchi playing saxophone

Mark ing 30 years of Spiritism in the UK Janet Duncan founder of the Spiritist Movement in England gave a opening speech about the Pathway

to Enlightenment The event was broadcast worldwide through TVCEI (wwwtvceicom) and the talks were further broadcast by the Fraternity Radio and Good News Radio of

Brazil This great event focused primarily on bringing

together hearts and souls and also stressing the importance of diversity in our lives

13 speakers each one with their own different way of speaking and expressing themselves but

UNITED KINGDOM

ISC NEWSLETTER no48 14

THE SWEDISH SPIRITIST UNION

On 24th and 25th May Divaldo Pereira Franco was once again in Scandinavia This time in Gothenburg Sweden in a gathering with local Spiritist groups This year our companions from Finland also attended the event The eminent propagator of Spiritism gave a public talk in this city which was translated into Swedish and also a Seminar with the Spiritist Groups present

The Paring Vaumlgen till ljuset Spiritist Group and

the Leon Denis Spiritist Study Centre in Stockholm took part by selling Spiritist books and distributing messages at the Harmony Fair in Stockholm on 23rd and 24th last March It has been noticed during the Fair that people had a growing interest on the Spiritist Doctrine and its foundations

At the Vatumannen Bookstore in Stockholm Spiritist books continue to be sold and information leaflets on Spiritism distributed

The Leon Denis Spiritist Study Centre in

Stockholm is completing the study of the book Efter Doumlden (After Death) by Leon Denis which has already been translated into Swedish

Information spiritismensegmailcom

wwwgsfallankardecblogspotcom

wwwspiritismencom

httpspiritistiskaforbundetblogspotcouk

SWEDEN

2nd QUARTER 2013 15

accommodation and closer contact with people who normally would only have superficial contact one to each other at major events The Spirit Movement in Switzerland owes much to Mr Jorge Godinho who with his vast experience and great patience has been teaching and providing us with advice From 6th to 9th May we had

the great pleasure of having with us Haroldo Dutra a Spiritist speaker who travelled throughout Switzerland giving different talks and a short seminar With the election of the new board of directors of UCESS on 14th April 2013 Rejane Hostettler is now the director of UCESS and there are also 3 vice-directors Pedro Pereira Nelly Berchtold and Dilma Hambrock Rejane is doing a course on theology in Zurich and making Spiritism known amongst other religious denominations so that a new focus of work is being introduced

Two new Spiritist centres have been founded in this period CEBEM in Zurich (Kuumlsnacht) and GEFA in Bern (Zollikofen) In the Italian Switzerland we will be beginning a program of monthly

events in Italian in May (please see the poster) Most Spiritist centres have received a boost of new friends very knowledgeable in Spiritism joining these centres and are providing their help to the Spiritist movement with great motivation

Divaldo Franco spoke in Switzerland on 20th May 2013 in Zurich at G-19 a Spiritist institution In Winthertur at CEEAK he spoke on the following topic Rebellious Spirits and Peace For the Spiritist Centres in Switzerland please visit the website wwwspiritismech nellyberchtoldhotmailcom

UNION OF SPIRITIST STUDY CENTRES IN SWITZERLAND - UCESS

Members of the 10 Spiritist centres in Switzerland have been meeting regularly since

January 2013 for at least a week-end per month in the rural area of Berne to study the Spiritist doctrine Study a n d p r a c t i c e o f mediumship in the 1st half of the year and the Systematic Study of Spiritism is scheduled for 2nd half of the year This study promotes closer ties of friendship because of the study groups the shared

SWITZERLAND

CIVIL ASSOCIATION SOCRATES

We are working to legalise the Venezuelan Spiritist Federation Jose Vasquez L - ingjvasquezgmailcom

VENEZUELA URUGUAYAN SPIRITIST

FEDERATION - USF Seminar - Spiritual Assistance 60th Anniversary of Spiritist Centre Hacia la Verdad Organised by Spiritist Centre Hacia la Verdad Supported by Spiritist Assistance Department of the USF General Flores 4689 Info about the datehacialaverdadmontevideocom uyfeuruguaygmailcom wwwespiritismouruguaycom

URUGUAY

ISC NEWSLETTER no 48 16

SPIRITIST CENTRE LOVE

2 Groups Tallinn and Vosu Please write only in Esperanto Russian or Estonian to Mr August Kilk augustspiritismee

wwwspiritismee

ESTONIA

ALLAN KARDEC SPIRITIST GROUP

Please contact in Esperanto or Hungarian Szabadi Tibor satiborespgmailcom

HUNGARY

SPIRITISM IN FINLAND ALLAN KARDEC TYOumlRYHMAuml In April a talk on the Mediums Books was given in response to the invitation of the Spiritualist event held in Tampere

On 8th and 9th May the Spiritist movement in Finland had an invaluable help by Andrei Moreira on theme Depression from the Spiritist Perspective

The talks were held in Helsinki and Vaumlaumlksy and translated into Finnish We had 120 people who attended the event and apart from the organisers the audience was

100 Finnish It is with great joy that we inform that the Allan Kardec Tyoumlryhmauml ry (Allan Kardec Work Group) received their registration number from the Finnish authorities in May so becoming the first registered Spiritist association in Finland

We are always grateful for each seed of light which is sowed We hope to continue watering our garden of love

Contacts and information infoallankardecfi

infospiritismifi wwwspiritismifi

FINLAND

THE SPIRITIST MOVEMENT IN OTHER COUNTRIES

SPIRITISM IN BELARUS

The President of the Spiritist Group in Minsk (Belarusian Spiritist Group) is Andrei Latsinnik Vice-president Natalia Latsinnik and Spartak Severin is the contact for enquiries from other countries

The group is made up by 15 people From the translation into English or French the ISC newsletter is now also being translated into Russian by Spartak Severin Andrei and Natasha from the Spiritist Group of Minsk Please write only in English French Italian or Russian to spartak-severinyandexby httpbelarusspiritycom

BELARUS

2nd QUARTER 2013 17

Spiritism in Ecuador

In June an Executive Committee member of the ISC will be visiting Guayaquil to carry out tasks and Spiritist seminars organised by the South America Coordination Department

wwwespiritismoquitoblogspotcom

ECUADOR

UAE - UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

There are 3 Groups in the UAE The 3rd Meeting of Spiritist Philosophy of the Middle East took place on 23rd and 26th May with the participation of our dear friend Haroldo Dutra In February the Abu Dhabi Group organized the 6th Lecture Cycle for the 3 groups in the United Arab Emirates This time the guest speaker was

Anete Guimaraes httpespacodespertarblogspotcom

Cesar Augustus - GEEAD

contatogeeadgmailcom httpswwwfacebookcomgeeadabudhabi

Ana Elisa Vilhena ndash GECL -

grupoespiritacaminhodeluzgmailcom

ARAB EMIRATES

ALLAN KARDEC GROUP OF PRAGUE

27th May 2013 Prague

Seminar with Divaldo

Franco

Information allankardecseznamcz website in Czech wwwkardeccz

CZECH REPUBLIC

AUSTRALIA

Further information on the Spiritist Movement in some cities in Australia please visit the following website wwwallankardecsydneyorg allankardecsydneygmailcom

POLAND SPIRITISM IN WARSAW

Further information only in Polish on the website wwwspirytyzmpl konradspirytyzmpl wwwrivailpl

INTERNATIONAL SPIRITIST COUNCIL IN ARGENTINE

EDICEI at the 39th International Book Fair of

Buenos Aires

From 23rd April to 13th May 2013 as it always happened since 2009 the International Spiritist Council through Edicei Iberoamerica and under sponsored by the Argentine Spiritist Federation took part as an exhibitor in the 39th International Book Fair of Buenos Aires

50 countries 500 exhibitors took part in it and attracted 1200000 visitors On the stand more than 100 Spiritist books were on display including the basic works of the codification by Allan Kardec and the Spanish edition of the Spiritist Magazine of 1860 by Allan Kardec

After the event a sale of 455 books were registered including works of the following publishers namely Joanna de Angelis 18 de abril and the CEA

GLOBAL CAMPAIGN IN DEFENCE OF LIFE by the International Spiritist Council The artwork has been approved at the meeting in Havana Cuba It is made up of images in posters in different languages Artwork prepared by the team of the Portuguese Spiritist Federation To send the translation please email Helena on 7helenabbgmailcom Soon available in all languages on the ISC website wwwinterceicom

Spiritist Friend Please visit the website of the International Spiritist Council which is often updated httpceispiriteorges httpceispiriteorgpt httpceispiriteorg httpceispiriteorgfr wwwinterceicom

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THE PORTUGUESE SPIRITIST

FEDERATION

Spiritist Culture Gathering

The Association of Propagators of Spiritism of Portugal APSP held the 9th Spiritist Culture Gathering on 20th and 21st April 2013 at the municipal hall A Casa da Muacutesica (The Music Hall) in the beautiful town of Obidos again with a full house The overall feeling was that of satisfaction for getting together and exchanging knowledge

Contacts wwwadeportugalorgjornadas

Training for Workers

Saturday 11th May 2013 from 3 to 5 pm at the Portuguese Spiritist Federations headquarters a workshop on accountancy for Spiritist Workers took place

Spiritist Gathering of Algarve

The Spiritist Gathering of Algarve organized by the Nuacutecleo Familiar Espiacuterita do Mentor Amigo (Spiritist Family Centre of the Friend Mentor) took place on Sunday 12th May 2013 at the Eva Hotel in Faro It was a time of glad getting together and exchange of knowledge

Contact 965 053 743 nfe_mentoramigosapopt

Seminar by Iris and Claudio Sinoti

On 19th May the Portuguese Spiritist Federation held at its headquarters a seminar on topics related to psychology addressed in the book Refletindo a Alma (Reflecting the Soul) and others from the psychological works of the Spirit of Joanna de Angelis Iris and Claudio Sinotti who are workers from the Mansatildeo do Caminho (Mansion of the Way) Bahia joined us in the event

Contacts geralfeportuguesapt

Health and Light Project

The 3rd Light and Health Project where topics related to physical mental and spiritual health will be discussed is being organized by the Allan Kardec

PORTUGAL ITALIAN SPIRITIST UNION

The Italian Spiritist Union through its President Regina Piccoli informs that they have all the slides of the Systematic Study of Spiritism volume I and II translated into Italian They are completing the review to draw up a booklet as a complement to the study of the classes Info italiausigmailcom

ITALY

SPIRITIST FRATERNITY GOD LOVE amp CHARITY

Saturday 16th March 2013 - Self-discovery

Seminar - with the active participation of speakers Dr Andrei Moreira from Brazil Prof Jose Angel Velasquez from El Salvador Dr Edwin Bravo and Prof Johana Bravo from Guatemala and Dr Maria de la Gracia Ender from Panama The photos of the seminar are on Fedac Facebook at wwwfedacorgpa We had an audience of 200 people with a great interest by the participants

2 Active participation at the 7th World Spiritist Congress with a Fedac delegation of 15 people among Spiritists and accompanying people

3 We are now facing a temporary difficulty with the moving to new premises The venue we had for 26 years is being sold and we have to vacate the property

We are still looking for a place to move to within our budget

Dr Maria de la Gracia Ender wwwfedacorgpa fedacpanamahotmailcom

PANAMA

PARAGUAY SPIRITIST CENTRE

The 10th Spiritist Week in Paraguay took place and was organised by the Paraguayan Spiritist Federacion

On 13th 14th and 15th September the 2nd South American Spiritist Congress took place in

Asuncion centroespiritaparaguayo_cepariedernetpy

PARAGUAY

ISC NEWSLETTER no 48 10

SPIRITIST UNION OF MOZAMBIQUE

The Spiritist Union of Mozambique was integrated to the International Spiritist Council during the Annual General Meeting in Cuba President Elide Carneiro Address Av Alfredo Keil 12 ndash Maputo Mobile +25 8844 613 251 unemomozgmailcom

wwwfacebookcomCEAKMZ

MOZAMBIQUE

MEXICAN SPIRITIST FEDERATION

The Mexican Federation of Spiritist Associations reports the activities below Federacioacuten Espiacuterita de Tamaulipas y las Huastecas (Spiritist Federation of Tamaulipas and the Huastecas) FETH

21st December 2012 talk and presentation of Spiritist poems by Spiritist youngsters in Valles S a n L u i s Potosi at the 1 8 t h anniversary of the Tomasito Herrera Spiritist Centre 21st to 23rd December 2012 talks and f e l l o w s h i p gathering of the Spiritist centres

of Mante Tamaulipas 1st January 2013 meeting of leaders of the FETH groups and fraternal gatherings January and February 2013 the official setup of t h e C o o r d i n a t i o n Department of Spiritist Centres from the Central Nor thwes t W estern Eastern Southeast regions of the country affiliated to the Mexican Federation of

Spiritist Associations local meeting of Spiritist centres in Mante and seminars held with the theme Death Spiritual Colonies Mental Irradiation and Spiritist Healing Celebration of 70th Anniversary de Spiritist Centre Love Light and Truth from Mante Anniversary de Spiritist Centre Love Light and Truth from Mante local report on the 7th International S p i r i t i s t C o n g r e s s participation in the meeting of the International Spiritist Council

MEXICO

meeting to strengthen and unify centres affiliated to the Federation and related institutions in the cities

of Valles Victoria Tampico Mante Pueblo Viejo Veracruz workshops held on Spiritist healing and fraternal assistance in the south of Veracruz and Tlaxcala

19th April interview about Spiritism and mediumship for the Radio Net 1060 AM group from the city of Juarez Chihuahua on 19th April

2013 Setting up of Spiritist Study Groups in Tabasco Quintana Roo Guadalajara and Sonora

Jorge Camargo jorgecamargozuritagmailcom

espiritismoenmexicohotmailcom

wwwespiritismoenmexicoorg

2nd QUARTER 2013 11

The meeting of CEICA took place with the presence of Mexico Panama and Honduras

CEYCA coordinator Dr Edwin Bravo

with Divaldo Franco and Patricia Rodriguez from the

Tamaulip Federation

Talk by Jorge Zurita at the

Congress in Cuba

THE SPIRITIST CHRISTIAN COMMUNION FRANCISCO CANDIDO XAVIER

wwwspiritismjp

JAPAN

GEEAK - NORWAY

The GEEAK Oslo continues to develop its

activities at the following address Dronningens gt

23 room 512 City Centre Oslo

Study of The Spirits books on Wednesdays at

6pm

Meimei Group (children and parents) on every

Saturday at 1230pm

Jussara Korngold was in Oslo for the second time

giving a talk at the Oslo Literature Hall on 14th

February 2013 with the theme Boosting your inner

Power

Spiritist Studies in Norway

Euripides Barsanulfo Spiritist Group - Bergen

Study of The Spirits book and the Gospel according

to Spiritism on Sundays from 730 to 9pm -

Information spiritismeibergengmailcom

Chico Xavier Spiritist Group - Trondheim

Meetings Wednesdays from 615 to 715pm

Contact spiritismentrondheimgmailcom

Bernt Torstenson Spiritist Study Group - Oslo

Meetings in Norwegian on Wednesdays from 1 to 2

pm Fredrikkebygget (UiO - Universitetet i Oslo

Blindern - Oslo) next to the Fredrikke Kapell

Contact sssbernttorstensongmailcom

Paul of Tarsus Spiritist Group Stavanger

Virtual meetings on Wednesdays from 730 to 9pm

Contact gepstavangergmailcom

httpspiritismestavangerblogspotno

postgeeaknorgecom

wwwgeeaknorgecom

NORWAY SPIRITIST SOCIETY

OF IRELAND

Andrei Moreira gave a talk in Dublin on 15th May 2013 on the theme Self Love a Healing Path

Divaldo Franco will be again in Dublin with the talk Mediumship Challenges and Blessings

on 11th June 2013 On 23rd May 2013 a talk by Sergio Thiesen Information sbertozzogmailcom

wwwallankardec-irelandorg

REPUBLIC OF IRELAND

ISC NEWSLETTER no48 12

GEEAK- LUXEMBOURG

Allan Kardec Spiritist Group of Luxembourg

You are all invited for a conference by Divaldo Pereira Franco on the theme Psychology of Gratitude Friday 7th June 2013 730pm to 1030pm Centre Socieacutetaire 29 rue de Strasbourg L-2560 - Luxembourg - Gare allankardecluxyahoofr wwwgroupespiriteallankardecluxcom

LUXEMBOURG

SPIRITIST FEDERATION OF PERU

The conference by Luis Hu took place in March

feperu_espiritayahoocom httpperuespiritablogspotcom

PERU

ALLAN KARDEC SPIRITIST GROUP - NZ

infoallankardecorgnz

httpallankardecorgnz

NEW ZEALAND

Study Group and AME GEEAK the Spiritist Medical Doctors Association of Coimbra

Contacts wwwgeeakpt

23rd Spiritist Gathering

of Lisbon

At the CEPC Centro Espiacuterita Perdatildeo e Caridade (Forgiveness and Charity Spiritist Centre) The themes are based on the book by Joanna de Angelis entitled Constelaccedilatildeo Familiar (Family

Constellation) From 10am to 5pm

With the participation of the Lisbon Spiritist Music Group and Choir and the Jogral Espiacuterita de Lisboa (Lisbon Spiritist Minstrel) as well as he participation of the DIJ of CEPC

Contacts wwwceperdaoecaridadept

June 17th CONCESP

The National Gathering of Spiritist Children will take place this year in Lisbon on 1st June From 1030 am to 430 pm at the Pousada da Juventude do Parque das Naccedilotildees with the theme Once upon a time the birds of heaven We look forward to seeing you with a lot of disposition and willingness in participating

Enrolment Forms concesp2013gmailcom

httpdijfeportuguesaptconcesp2013

Spiritist Meeting of Alentejo

On Sunday 2nd June from 10am to 6pm the Spiritist Meeting of Alentejo 2013 will take place at the D Fernando Hotel in Evora with the theme Spiritism in Alentejo

Contacts

cefeevoragmailcom

Cultural Spiritist

Meeting 2013

The Cultural Spiritist Meeting 2013 will be dedicated to the theme of The Portuguese Spiritist Movement and

2nd QUARTER 2013 13

will take place on Sunday 30th June from 2pm at its headquarters in Amadora Get to know better the history of the Portuguese Spiritist Movement See you there

Contacts wwwfeportuguesapt

Tel 214 975 754

geralfeportuguesapt

Featured

The Portuguese Spiritist Congress 2013

It will be held in Leiria at the premises of the Spiritist Association of Leiria on 16th amp 17th November under the theme of Mediumship a vision of the future We should point out that the hall has limited capacity so it is recommended that you book your place early

Contacts wwwfeportuguesapt

Please book your place by sending an email to

congressoespiritaportugues2013gmailcom

If you have any queries please dont hesitate to contact us

wwwfeportuguesapt

fepinformafeportuguesapt

focused on the same target which was to touching the soul of every one present in the huge audience awakening in those who were seeking knowledge a new opportunity for a new re-beginning Soon the videos of the talks will be available on Youtube Further information on the BUSS website below Article by Ana Marques

coordinator of Guiding Light Spiritist Society in Canterbury UK Photos Guilherme Almeida Future events in June in UK

Divaldo Franco on 9th June in London 10th June in Glasgow Therezinha Oliveira 23rd June to 30th June Talks in London and Wokingham

All posters and information are available on the BUSS website wwwbussorguk

busseventsgmailcom

BUSS - BRITISH UNION OF SPIRITIST SOCIETIES

2nd British Spiritist Congress Celebrating 30 Years of Spiritism

in the United Kingdom

With the main theme A new Era and the Dawning of a new Humanity the 2nd British Spiritist Congress held on 11th and 12th May 2013 at the main hall of the Quakers Friends House in London and organised by BUSS was a success Participants from 14 different countries were present namely France Norway Denmark Sweden Switzerland Japan Portugal Republic of Ireland Czech Republic Brazil Liechtenstein Germany Australia and Serbia During both Saturday and Sunday a total of 248 people enrolled for the event and were able to enjoy 15 talks offered by 13 speakers Charles Kempf General Secretary of the ISC Harold Dutra Dias Dr Andrei Moreira Speakers present from the UK Janet Duncan President of Allan Kardec Study Group - Centre for Spiritist Teachings London completing 30 years of foundation Guy Lyon Playfair Anne Christine Sinclair Silvia Gibbons Denise Ferrett Maria Gomes Davian Jessamy Elizabeth Freire Stevanin Tania and Tanya Moore

The event was hosted by Christopher Kinghorn There was a musical performance by Diego Carneiro p l a y i n g c e l l o s op r ano Maya Sapone and Martino Scovacricchi playing saxophone

Mark ing 30 years of Spiritism in the UK Janet Duncan founder of the Spiritist Movement in England gave a opening speech about the Pathway

to Enlightenment The event was broadcast worldwide through TVCEI (wwwtvceicom) and the talks were further broadcast by the Fraternity Radio and Good News Radio of

Brazil This great event focused primarily on bringing

together hearts and souls and also stressing the importance of diversity in our lives

13 speakers each one with their own different way of speaking and expressing themselves but

UNITED KINGDOM

ISC NEWSLETTER no48 14

THE SWEDISH SPIRITIST UNION

On 24th and 25th May Divaldo Pereira Franco was once again in Scandinavia This time in Gothenburg Sweden in a gathering with local Spiritist groups This year our companions from Finland also attended the event The eminent propagator of Spiritism gave a public talk in this city which was translated into Swedish and also a Seminar with the Spiritist Groups present

The Paring Vaumlgen till ljuset Spiritist Group and

the Leon Denis Spiritist Study Centre in Stockholm took part by selling Spiritist books and distributing messages at the Harmony Fair in Stockholm on 23rd and 24th last March It has been noticed during the Fair that people had a growing interest on the Spiritist Doctrine and its foundations

At the Vatumannen Bookstore in Stockholm Spiritist books continue to be sold and information leaflets on Spiritism distributed

The Leon Denis Spiritist Study Centre in

Stockholm is completing the study of the book Efter Doumlden (After Death) by Leon Denis which has already been translated into Swedish

Information spiritismensegmailcom

wwwgsfallankardecblogspotcom

wwwspiritismencom

httpspiritistiskaforbundetblogspotcouk

SWEDEN

2nd QUARTER 2013 15

accommodation and closer contact with people who normally would only have superficial contact one to each other at major events The Spirit Movement in Switzerland owes much to Mr Jorge Godinho who with his vast experience and great patience has been teaching and providing us with advice From 6th to 9th May we had

the great pleasure of having with us Haroldo Dutra a Spiritist speaker who travelled throughout Switzerland giving different talks and a short seminar With the election of the new board of directors of UCESS on 14th April 2013 Rejane Hostettler is now the director of UCESS and there are also 3 vice-directors Pedro Pereira Nelly Berchtold and Dilma Hambrock Rejane is doing a course on theology in Zurich and making Spiritism known amongst other religious denominations so that a new focus of work is being introduced

Two new Spiritist centres have been founded in this period CEBEM in Zurich (Kuumlsnacht) and GEFA in Bern (Zollikofen) In the Italian Switzerland we will be beginning a program of monthly

events in Italian in May (please see the poster) Most Spiritist centres have received a boost of new friends very knowledgeable in Spiritism joining these centres and are providing their help to the Spiritist movement with great motivation

Divaldo Franco spoke in Switzerland on 20th May 2013 in Zurich at G-19 a Spiritist institution In Winthertur at CEEAK he spoke on the following topic Rebellious Spirits and Peace For the Spiritist Centres in Switzerland please visit the website wwwspiritismech nellyberchtoldhotmailcom

UNION OF SPIRITIST STUDY CENTRES IN SWITZERLAND - UCESS

Members of the 10 Spiritist centres in Switzerland have been meeting regularly since

January 2013 for at least a week-end per month in the rural area of Berne to study the Spiritist doctrine Study a n d p r a c t i c e o f mediumship in the 1st half of the year and the Systematic Study of Spiritism is scheduled for 2nd half of the year This study promotes closer ties of friendship because of the study groups the shared

SWITZERLAND

CIVIL ASSOCIATION SOCRATES

We are working to legalise the Venezuelan Spiritist Federation Jose Vasquez L - ingjvasquezgmailcom

VENEZUELA URUGUAYAN SPIRITIST

FEDERATION - USF Seminar - Spiritual Assistance 60th Anniversary of Spiritist Centre Hacia la Verdad Organised by Spiritist Centre Hacia la Verdad Supported by Spiritist Assistance Department of the USF General Flores 4689 Info about the datehacialaverdadmontevideocom uyfeuruguaygmailcom wwwespiritismouruguaycom

URUGUAY

ISC NEWSLETTER no 48 16

SPIRITIST CENTRE LOVE

2 Groups Tallinn and Vosu Please write only in Esperanto Russian or Estonian to Mr August Kilk augustspiritismee

wwwspiritismee

ESTONIA

ALLAN KARDEC SPIRITIST GROUP

Please contact in Esperanto or Hungarian Szabadi Tibor satiborespgmailcom

HUNGARY

SPIRITISM IN FINLAND ALLAN KARDEC TYOumlRYHMAuml In April a talk on the Mediums Books was given in response to the invitation of the Spiritualist event held in Tampere

On 8th and 9th May the Spiritist movement in Finland had an invaluable help by Andrei Moreira on theme Depression from the Spiritist Perspective

The talks were held in Helsinki and Vaumlaumlksy and translated into Finnish We had 120 people who attended the event and apart from the organisers the audience was

100 Finnish It is with great joy that we inform that the Allan Kardec Tyoumlryhmauml ry (Allan Kardec Work Group) received their registration number from the Finnish authorities in May so becoming the first registered Spiritist association in Finland

We are always grateful for each seed of light which is sowed We hope to continue watering our garden of love

Contacts and information infoallankardecfi

infospiritismifi wwwspiritismifi

FINLAND

THE SPIRITIST MOVEMENT IN OTHER COUNTRIES

SPIRITISM IN BELARUS

The President of the Spiritist Group in Minsk (Belarusian Spiritist Group) is Andrei Latsinnik Vice-president Natalia Latsinnik and Spartak Severin is the contact for enquiries from other countries

The group is made up by 15 people From the translation into English or French the ISC newsletter is now also being translated into Russian by Spartak Severin Andrei and Natasha from the Spiritist Group of Minsk Please write only in English French Italian or Russian to spartak-severinyandexby httpbelarusspiritycom

BELARUS

2nd QUARTER 2013 17

Spiritism in Ecuador

In June an Executive Committee member of the ISC will be visiting Guayaquil to carry out tasks and Spiritist seminars organised by the South America Coordination Department

wwwespiritismoquitoblogspotcom

ECUADOR

UAE - UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

There are 3 Groups in the UAE The 3rd Meeting of Spiritist Philosophy of the Middle East took place on 23rd and 26th May with the participation of our dear friend Haroldo Dutra In February the Abu Dhabi Group organized the 6th Lecture Cycle for the 3 groups in the United Arab Emirates This time the guest speaker was

Anete Guimaraes httpespacodespertarblogspotcom

Cesar Augustus - GEEAD

contatogeeadgmailcom httpswwwfacebookcomgeeadabudhabi

Ana Elisa Vilhena ndash GECL -

grupoespiritacaminhodeluzgmailcom

ARAB EMIRATES

ALLAN KARDEC GROUP OF PRAGUE

27th May 2013 Prague

Seminar with Divaldo

Franco

Information allankardecseznamcz website in Czech wwwkardeccz

CZECH REPUBLIC

AUSTRALIA

Further information on the Spiritist Movement in some cities in Australia please visit the following website wwwallankardecsydneyorg allankardecsydneygmailcom

POLAND SPIRITISM IN WARSAW

Further information only in Polish on the website wwwspirytyzmpl konradspirytyzmpl wwwrivailpl

INTERNATIONAL SPIRITIST COUNCIL IN ARGENTINE

EDICEI at the 39th International Book Fair of

Buenos Aires

From 23rd April to 13th May 2013 as it always happened since 2009 the International Spiritist Council through Edicei Iberoamerica and under sponsored by the Argentine Spiritist Federation took part as an exhibitor in the 39th International Book Fair of Buenos Aires

50 countries 500 exhibitors took part in it and attracted 1200000 visitors On the stand more than 100 Spiritist books were on display including the basic works of the codification by Allan Kardec and the Spanish edition of the Spiritist Magazine of 1860 by Allan Kardec

After the event a sale of 455 books were registered including works of the following publishers namely Joanna de Angelis 18 de abril and the CEA

GLOBAL CAMPAIGN IN DEFENCE OF LIFE by the International Spiritist Council The artwork has been approved at the meeting in Havana Cuba It is made up of images in posters in different languages Artwork prepared by the team of the Portuguese Spiritist Federation To send the translation please email Helena on 7helenabbgmailcom Soon available in all languages on the ISC website wwwinterceicom

Spiritist Friend Please visit the website of the International Spiritist Council which is often updated httpceispiriteorges httpceispiriteorgpt httpceispiriteorg httpceispiriteorgfr wwwinterceicom

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SPIRITIST UNION OF MOZAMBIQUE

The Spiritist Union of Mozambique was integrated to the International Spiritist Council during the Annual General Meeting in Cuba President Elide Carneiro Address Av Alfredo Keil 12 ndash Maputo Mobile +25 8844 613 251 unemomozgmailcom

wwwfacebookcomCEAKMZ

MOZAMBIQUE

MEXICAN SPIRITIST FEDERATION

The Mexican Federation of Spiritist Associations reports the activities below Federacioacuten Espiacuterita de Tamaulipas y las Huastecas (Spiritist Federation of Tamaulipas and the Huastecas) FETH

21st December 2012 talk and presentation of Spiritist poems by Spiritist youngsters in Valles S a n L u i s Potosi at the 1 8 t h anniversary of the Tomasito Herrera Spiritist Centre 21st to 23rd December 2012 talks and f e l l o w s h i p gathering of the Spiritist centres

of Mante Tamaulipas 1st January 2013 meeting of leaders of the FETH groups and fraternal gatherings January and February 2013 the official setup of t h e C o o r d i n a t i o n Department of Spiritist Centres from the Central Nor thwes t W estern Eastern Southeast regions of the country affiliated to the Mexican Federation of

Spiritist Associations local meeting of Spiritist centres in Mante and seminars held with the theme Death Spiritual Colonies Mental Irradiation and Spiritist Healing Celebration of 70th Anniversary de Spiritist Centre Love Light and Truth from Mante Anniversary de Spiritist Centre Love Light and Truth from Mante local report on the 7th International S p i r i t i s t C o n g r e s s participation in the meeting of the International Spiritist Council

MEXICO

meeting to strengthen and unify centres affiliated to the Federation and related institutions in the cities

of Valles Victoria Tampico Mante Pueblo Viejo Veracruz workshops held on Spiritist healing and fraternal assistance in the south of Veracruz and Tlaxcala

19th April interview about Spiritism and mediumship for the Radio Net 1060 AM group from the city of Juarez Chihuahua on 19th April

2013 Setting up of Spiritist Study Groups in Tabasco Quintana Roo Guadalajara and Sonora

Jorge Camargo jorgecamargozuritagmailcom

espiritismoenmexicohotmailcom

wwwespiritismoenmexicoorg

2nd QUARTER 2013 11

The meeting of CEICA took place with the presence of Mexico Panama and Honduras

CEYCA coordinator Dr Edwin Bravo

with Divaldo Franco and Patricia Rodriguez from the

Tamaulip Federation

Talk by Jorge Zurita at the

Congress in Cuba

THE SPIRITIST CHRISTIAN COMMUNION FRANCISCO CANDIDO XAVIER

wwwspiritismjp

JAPAN

GEEAK - NORWAY

The GEEAK Oslo continues to develop its

activities at the following address Dronningens gt

23 room 512 City Centre Oslo

Study of The Spirits books on Wednesdays at

6pm

Meimei Group (children and parents) on every

Saturday at 1230pm

Jussara Korngold was in Oslo for the second time

giving a talk at the Oslo Literature Hall on 14th

February 2013 with the theme Boosting your inner

Power

Spiritist Studies in Norway

Euripides Barsanulfo Spiritist Group - Bergen

Study of The Spirits book and the Gospel according

to Spiritism on Sundays from 730 to 9pm -

Information spiritismeibergengmailcom

Chico Xavier Spiritist Group - Trondheim

Meetings Wednesdays from 615 to 715pm

Contact spiritismentrondheimgmailcom

Bernt Torstenson Spiritist Study Group - Oslo

Meetings in Norwegian on Wednesdays from 1 to 2

pm Fredrikkebygget (UiO - Universitetet i Oslo

Blindern - Oslo) next to the Fredrikke Kapell

Contact sssbernttorstensongmailcom

Paul of Tarsus Spiritist Group Stavanger

Virtual meetings on Wednesdays from 730 to 9pm

Contact gepstavangergmailcom

httpspiritismestavangerblogspotno

postgeeaknorgecom

wwwgeeaknorgecom

NORWAY SPIRITIST SOCIETY

OF IRELAND

Andrei Moreira gave a talk in Dublin on 15th May 2013 on the theme Self Love a Healing Path

Divaldo Franco will be again in Dublin with the talk Mediumship Challenges and Blessings

on 11th June 2013 On 23rd May 2013 a talk by Sergio Thiesen Information sbertozzogmailcom

wwwallankardec-irelandorg

REPUBLIC OF IRELAND

ISC NEWSLETTER no48 12

GEEAK- LUXEMBOURG

Allan Kardec Spiritist Group of Luxembourg

You are all invited for a conference by Divaldo Pereira Franco on the theme Psychology of Gratitude Friday 7th June 2013 730pm to 1030pm Centre Socieacutetaire 29 rue de Strasbourg L-2560 - Luxembourg - Gare allankardecluxyahoofr wwwgroupespiriteallankardecluxcom

LUXEMBOURG

SPIRITIST FEDERATION OF PERU

The conference by Luis Hu took place in March

feperu_espiritayahoocom httpperuespiritablogspotcom

PERU

ALLAN KARDEC SPIRITIST GROUP - NZ

infoallankardecorgnz

httpallankardecorgnz

NEW ZEALAND

Study Group and AME GEEAK the Spiritist Medical Doctors Association of Coimbra

Contacts wwwgeeakpt

23rd Spiritist Gathering

of Lisbon

At the CEPC Centro Espiacuterita Perdatildeo e Caridade (Forgiveness and Charity Spiritist Centre) The themes are based on the book by Joanna de Angelis entitled Constelaccedilatildeo Familiar (Family

Constellation) From 10am to 5pm

With the participation of the Lisbon Spiritist Music Group and Choir and the Jogral Espiacuterita de Lisboa (Lisbon Spiritist Minstrel) as well as he participation of the DIJ of CEPC

Contacts wwwceperdaoecaridadept

June 17th CONCESP

The National Gathering of Spiritist Children will take place this year in Lisbon on 1st June From 1030 am to 430 pm at the Pousada da Juventude do Parque das Naccedilotildees with the theme Once upon a time the birds of heaven We look forward to seeing you with a lot of disposition and willingness in participating

Enrolment Forms concesp2013gmailcom

httpdijfeportuguesaptconcesp2013

Spiritist Meeting of Alentejo

On Sunday 2nd June from 10am to 6pm the Spiritist Meeting of Alentejo 2013 will take place at the D Fernando Hotel in Evora with the theme Spiritism in Alentejo

Contacts

cefeevoragmailcom

Cultural Spiritist

Meeting 2013

The Cultural Spiritist Meeting 2013 will be dedicated to the theme of The Portuguese Spiritist Movement and

2nd QUARTER 2013 13

will take place on Sunday 30th June from 2pm at its headquarters in Amadora Get to know better the history of the Portuguese Spiritist Movement See you there

Contacts wwwfeportuguesapt

Tel 214 975 754

geralfeportuguesapt

Featured

The Portuguese Spiritist Congress 2013

It will be held in Leiria at the premises of the Spiritist Association of Leiria on 16th amp 17th November under the theme of Mediumship a vision of the future We should point out that the hall has limited capacity so it is recommended that you book your place early

Contacts wwwfeportuguesapt

Please book your place by sending an email to

congressoespiritaportugues2013gmailcom

If you have any queries please dont hesitate to contact us

wwwfeportuguesapt

fepinformafeportuguesapt

focused on the same target which was to touching the soul of every one present in the huge audience awakening in those who were seeking knowledge a new opportunity for a new re-beginning Soon the videos of the talks will be available on Youtube Further information on the BUSS website below Article by Ana Marques

coordinator of Guiding Light Spiritist Society in Canterbury UK Photos Guilherme Almeida Future events in June in UK

Divaldo Franco on 9th June in London 10th June in Glasgow Therezinha Oliveira 23rd June to 30th June Talks in London and Wokingham

All posters and information are available on the BUSS website wwwbussorguk

busseventsgmailcom

BUSS - BRITISH UNION OF SPIRITIST SOCIETIES

2nd British Spiritist Congress Celebrating 30 Years of Spiritism

in the United Kingdom

With the main theme A new Era and the Dawning of a new Humanity the 2nd British Spiritist Congress held on 11th and 12th May 2013 at the main hall of the Quakers Friends House in London and organised by BUSS was a success Participants from 14 different countries were present namely France Norway Denmark Sweden Switzerland Japan Portugal Republic of Ireland Czech Republic Brazil Liechtenstein Germany Australia and Serbia During both Saturday and Sunday a total of 248 people enrolled for the event and were able to enjoy 15 talks offered by 13 speakers Charles Kempf General Secretary of the ISC Harold Dutra Dias Dr Andrei Moreira Speakers present from the UK Janet Duncan President of Allan Kardec Study Group - Centre for Spiritist Teachings London completing 30 years of foundation Guy Lyon Playfair Anne Christine Sinclair Silvia Gibbons Denise Ferrett Maria Gomes Davian Jessamy Elizabeth Freire Stevanin Tania and Tanya Moore

The event was hosted by Christopher Kinghorn There was a musical performance by Diego Carneiro p l a y i n g c e l l o s op r ano Maya Sapone and Martino Scovacricchi playing saxophone

Mark ing 30 years of Spiritism in the UK Janet Duncan founder of the Spiritist Movement in England gave a opening speech about the Pathway

to Enlightenment The event was broadcast worldwide through TVCEI (wwwtvceicom) and the talks were further broadcast by the Fraternity Radio and Good News Radio of

Brazil This great event focused primarily on bringing

together hearts and souls and also stressing the importance of diversity in our lives

13 speakers each one with their own different way of speaking and expressing themselves but

UNITED KINGDOM

ISC NEWSLETTER no48 14

THE SWEDISH SPIRITIST UNION

On 24th and 25th May Divaldo Pereira Franco was once again in Scandinavia This time in Gothenburg Sweden in a gathering with local Spiritist groups This year our companions from Finland also attended the event The eminent propagator of Spiritism gave a public talk in this city which was translated into Swedish and also a Seminar with the Spiritist Groups present

The Paring Vaumlgen till ljuset Spiritist Group and

the Leon Denis Spiritist Study Centre in Stockholm took part by selling Spiritist books and distributing messages at the Harmony Fair in Stockholm on 23rd and 24th last March It has been noticed during the Fair that people had a growing interest on the Spiritist Doctrine and its foundations

At the Vatumannen Bookstore in Stockholm Spiritist books continue to be sold and information leaflets on Spiritism distributed

The Leon Denis Spiritist Study Centre in

Stockholm is completing the study of the book Efter Doumlden (After Death) by Leon Denis which has already been translated into Swedish

Information spiritismensegmailcom

wwwgsfallankardecblogspotcom

wwwspiritismencom

httpspiritistiskaforbundetblogspotcouk

SWEDEN

2nd QUARTER 2013 15

accommodation and closer contact with people who normally would only have superficial contact one to each other at major events The Spirit Movement in Switzerland owes much to Mr Jorge Godinho who with his vast experience and great patience has been teaching and providing us with advice From 6th to 9th May we had

the great pleasure of having with us Haroldo Dutra a Spiritist speaker who travelled throughout Switzerland giving different talks and a short seminar With the election of the new board of directors of UCESS on 14th April 2013 Rejane Hostettler is now the director of UCESS and there are also 3 vice-directors Pedro Pereira Nelly Berchtold and Dilma Hambrock Rejane is doing a course on theology in Zurich and making Spiritism known amongst other religious denominations so that a new focus of work is being introduced

Two new Spiritist centres have been founded in this period CEBEM in Zurich (Kuumlsnacht) and GEFA in Bern (Zollikofen) In the Italian Switzerland we will be beginning a program of monthly

events in Italian in May (please see the poster) Most Spiritist centres have received a boost of new friends very knowledgeable in Spiritism joining these centres and are providing their help to the Spiritist movement with great motivation

Divaldo Franco spoke in Switzerland on 20th May 2013 in Zurich at G-19 a Spiritist institution In Winthertur at CEEAK he spoke on the following topic Rebellious Spirits and Peace For the Spiritist Centres in Switzerland please visit the website wwwspiritismech nellyberchtoldhotmailcom

UNION OF SPIRITIST STUDY CENTRES IN SWITZERLAND - UCESS

Members of the 10 Spiritist centres in Switzerland have been meeting regularly since

January 2013 for at least a week-end per month in the rural area of Berne to study the Spiritist doctrine Study a n d p r a c t i c e o f mediumship in the 1st half of the year and the Systematic Study of Spiritism is scheduled for 2nd half of the year This study promotes closer ties of friendship because of the study groups the shared

SWITZERLAND

CIVIL ASSOCIATION SOCRATES

We are working to legalise the Venezuelan Spiritist Federation Jose Vasquez L - ingjvasquezgmailcom

VENEZUELA URUGUAYAN SPIRITIST

FEDERATION - USF Seminar - Spiritual Assistance 60th Anniversary of Spiritist Centre Hacia la Verdad Organised by Spiritist Centre Hacia la Verdad Supported by Spiritist Assistance Department of the USF General Flores 4689 Info about the datehacialaverdadmontevideocom uyfeuruguaygmailcom wwwespiritismouruguaycom

URUGUAY

ISC NEWSLETTER no 48 16

SPIRITIST CENTRE LOVE

2 Groups Tallinn and Vosu Please write only in Esperanto Russian or Estonian to Mr August Kilk augustspiritismee

wwwspiritismee

ESTONIA

ALLAN KARDEC SPIRITIST GROUP

Please contact in Esperanto or Hungarian Szabadi Tibor satiborespgmailcom

HUNGARY

SPIRITISM IN FINLAND ALLAN KARDEC TYOumlRYHMAuml In April a talk on the Mediums Books was given in response to the invitation of the Spiritualist event held in Tampere

On 8th and 9th May the Spiritist movement in Finland had an invaluable help by Andrei Moreira on theme Depression from the Spiritist Perspective

The talks were held in Helsinki and Vaumlaumlksy and translated into Finnish We had 120 people who attended the event and apart from the organisers the audience was

100 Finnish It is with great joy that we inform that the Allan Kardec Tyoumlryhmauml ry (Allan Kardec Work Group) received their registration number from the Finnish authorities in May so becoming the first registered Spiritist association in Finland

We are always grateful for each seed of light which is sowed We hope to continue watering our garden of love

Contacts and information infoallankardecfi

infospiritismifi wwwspiritismifi

FINLAND

THE SPIRITIST MOVEMENT IN OTHER COUNTRIES

SPIRITISM IN BELARUS

The President of the Spiritist Group in Minsk (Belarusian Spiritist Group) is Andrei Latsinnik Vice-president Natalia Latsinnik and Spartak Severin is the contact for enquiries from other countries

The group is made up by 15 people From the translation into English or French the ISC newsletter is now also being translated into Russian by Spartak Severin Andrei and Natasha from the Spiritist Group of Minsk Please write only in English French Italian or Russian to spartak-severinyandexby httpbelarusspiritycom

BELARUS

2nd QUARTER 2013 17

Spiritism in Ecuador

In June an Executive Committee member of the ISC will be visiting Guayaquil to carry out tasks and Spiritist seminars organised by the South America Coordination Department

wwwespiritismoquitoblogspotcom

ECUADOR

UAE - UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

There are 3 Groups in the UAE The 3rd Meeting of Spiritist Philosophy of the Middle East took place on 23rd and 26th May with the participation of our dear friend Haroldo Dutra In February the Abu Dhabi Group organized the 6th Lecture Cycle for the 3 groups in the United Arab Emirates This time the guest speaker was

Anete Guimaraes httpespacodespertarblogspotcom

Cesar Augustus - GEEAD

contatogeeadgmailcom httpswwwfacebookcomgeeadabudhabi

Ana Elisa Vilhena ndash GECL -

grupoespiritacaminhodeluzgmailcom

ARAB EMIRATES

ALLAN KARDEC GROUP OF PRAGUE

27th May 2013 Prague

Seminar with Divaldo

Franco

Information allankardecseznamcz website in Czech wwwkardeccz

CZECH REPUBLIC

AUSTRALIA

Further information on the Spiritist Movement in some cities in Australia please visit the following website wwwallankardecsydneyorg allankardecsydneygmailcom

POLAND SPIRITISM IN WARSAW

Further information only in Polish on the website wwwspirytyzmpl konradspirytyzmpl wwwrivailpl

INTERNATIONAL SPIRITIST COUNCIL IN ARGENTINE

EDICEI at the 39th International Book Fair of

Buenos Aires

From 23rd April to 13th May 2013 as it always happened since 2009 the International Spiritist Council through Edicei Iberoamerica and under sponsored by the Argentine Spiritist Federation took part as an exhibitor in the 39th International Book Fair of Buenos Aires

50 countries 500 exhibitors took part in it and attracted 1200000 visitors On the stand more than 100 Spiritist books were on display including the basic works of the codification by Allan Kardec and the Spanish edition of the Spiritist Magazine of 1860 by Allan Kardec

After the event a sale of 455 books were registered including works of the following publishers namely Joanna de Angelis 18 de abril and the CEA

GLOBAL CAMPAIGN IN DEFENCE OF LIFE by the International Spiritist Council The artwork has been approved at the meeting in Havana Cuba It is made up of images in posters in different languages Artwork prepared by the team of the Portuguese Spiritist Federation To send the translation please email Helena on 7helenabbgmailcom Soon available in all languages on the ISC website wwwinterceicom

Spiritist Friend Please visit the website of the International Spiritist Council which is often updated httpceispiriteorges httpceispiriteorgpt httpceispiriteorg httpceispiriteorgfr wwwinterceicom

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THE SPIRITIST CHRISTIAN COMMUNION FRANCISCO CANDIDO XAVIER

wwwspiritismjp

JAPAN

GEEAK - NORWAY

The GEEAK Oslo continues to develop its

activities at the following address Dronningens gt

23 room 512 City Centre Oslo

Study of The Spirits books on Wednesdays at

6pm

Meimei Group (children and parents) on every

Saturday at 1230pm

Jussara Korngold was in Oslo for the second time

giving a talk at the Oslo Literature Hall on 14th

February 2013 with the theme Boosting your inner

Power

Spiritist Studies in Norway

Euripides Barsanulfo Spiritist Group - Bergen

Study of The Spirits book and the Gospel according

to Spiritism on Sundays from 730 to 9pm -

Information spiritismeibergengmailcom

Chico Xavier Spiritist Group - Trondheim

Meetings Wednesdays from 615 to 715pm

Contact spiritismentrondheimgmailcom

Bernt Torstenson Spiritist Study Group - Oslo

Meetings in Norwegian on Wednesdays from 1 to 2

pm Fredrikkebygget (UiO - Universitetet i Oslo

Blindern - Oslo) next to the Fredrikke Kapell

Contact sssbernttorstensongmailcom

Paul of Tarsus Spiritist Group Stavanger

Virtual meetings on Wednesdays from 730 to 9pm

Contact gepstavangergmailcom

httpspiritismestavangerblogspotno

postgeeaknorgecom

wwwgeeaknorgecom

NORWAY SPIRITIST SOCIETY

OF IRELAND

Andrei Moreira gave a talk in Dublin on 15th May 2013 on the theme Self Love a Healing Path

Divaldo Franco will be again in Dublin with the talk Mediumship Challenges and Blessings

on 11th June 2013 On 23rd May 2013 a talk by Sergio Thiesen Information sbertozzogmailcom

wwwallankardec-irelandorg

REPUBLIC OF IRELAND

ISC NEWSLETTER no48 12

GEEAK- LUXEMBOURG

Allan Kardec Spiritist Group of Luxembourg

You are all invited for a conference by Divaldo Pereira Franco on the theme Psychology of Gratitude Friday 7th June 2013 730pm to 1030pm Centre Socieacutetaire 29 rue de Strasbourg L-2560 - Luxembourg - Gare allankardecluxyahoofr wwwgroupespiriteallankardecluxcom

LUXEMBOURG

SPIRITIST FEDERATION OF PERU

The conference by Luis Hu took place in March

feperu_espiritayahoocom httpperuespiritablogspotcom

PERU

ALLAN KARDEC SPIRITIST GROUP - NZ

infoallankardecorgnz

httpallankardecorgnz

NEW ZEALAND

Study Group and AME GEEAK the Spiritist Medical Doctors Association of Coimbra

Contacts wwwgeeakpt

23rd Spiritist Gathering

of Lisbon

At the CEPC Centro Espiacuterita Perdatildeo e Caridade (Forgiveness and Charity Spiritist Centre) The themes are based on the book by Joanna de Angelis entitled Constelaccedilatildeo Familiar (Family

Constellation) From 10am to 5pm

With the participation of the Lisbon Spiritist Music Group and Choir and the Jogral Espiacuterita de Lisboa (Lisbon Spiritist Minstrel) as well as he participation of the DIJ of CEPC

Contacts wwwceperdaoecaridadept

June 17th CONCESP

The National Gathering of Spiritist Children will take place this year in Lisbon on 1st June From 1030 am to 430 pm at the Pousada da Juventude do Parque das Naccedilotildees with the theme Once upon a time the birds of heaven We look forward to seeing you with a lot of disposition and willingness in participating

Enrolment Forms concesp2013gmailcom

httpdijfeportuguesaptconcesp2013

Spiritist Meeting of Alentejo

On Sunday 2nd June from 10am to 6pm the Spiritist Meeting of Alentejo 2013 will take place at the D Fernando Hotel in Evora with the theme Spiritism in Alentejo

Contacts

cefeevoragmailcom

Cultural Spiritist

Meeting 2013

The Cultural Spiritist Meeting 2013 will be dedicated to the theme of The Portuguese Spiritist Movement and

2nd QUARTER 2013 13

will take place on Sunday 30th June from 2pm at its headquarters in Amadora Get to know better the history of the Portuguese Spiritist Movement See you there

Contacts wwwfeportuguesapt

Tel 214 975 754

geralfeportuguesapt

Featured

The Portuguese Spiritist Congress 2013

It will be held in Leiria at the premises of the Spiritist Association of Leiria on 16th amp 17th November under the theme of Mediumship a vision of the future We should point out that the hall has limited capacity so it is recommended that you book your place early

Contacts wwwfeportuguesapt

Please book your place by sending an email to

congressoespiritaportugues2013gmailcom

If you have any queries please dont hesitate to contact us

wwwfeportuguesapt

fepinformafeportuguesapt

focused on the same target which was to touching the soul of every one present in the huge audience awakening in those who were seeking knowledge a new opportunity for a new re-beginning Soon the videos of the talks will be available on Youtube Further information on the BUSS website below Article by Ana Marques

coordinator of Guiding Light Spiritist Society in Canterbury UK Photos Guilherme Almeida Future events in June in UK

Divaldo Franco on 9th June in London 10th June in Glasgow Therezinha Oliveira 23rd June to 30th June Talks in London and Wokingham

All posters and information are available on the BUSS website wwwbussorguk

busseventsgmailcom

BUSS - BRITISH UNION OF SPIRITIST SOCIETIES

2nd British Spiritist Congress Celebrating 30 Years of Spiritism

in the United Kingdom

With the main theme A new Era and the Dawning of a new Humanity the 2nd British Spiritist Congress held on 11th and 12th May 2013 at the main hall of the Quakers Friends House in London and organised by BUSS was a success Participants from 14 different countries were present namely France Norway Denmark Sweden Switzerland Japan Portugal Republic of Ireland Czech Republic Brazil Liechtenstein Germany Australia and Serbia During both Saturday and Sunday a total of 248 people enrolled for the event and were able to enjoy 15 talks offered by 13 speakers Charles Kempf General Secretary of the ISC Harold Dutra Dias Dr Andrei Moreira Speakers present from the UK Janet Duncan President of Allan Kardec Study Group - Centre for Spiritist Teachings London completing 30 years of foundation Guy Lyon Playfair Anne Christine Sinclair Silvia Gibbons Denise Ferrett Maria Gomes Davian Jessamy Elizabeth Freire Stevanin Tania and Tanya Moore

The event was hosted by Christopher Kinghorn There was a musical performance by Diego Carneiro p l a y i n g c e l l o s op r ano Maya Sapone and Martino Scovacricchi playing saxophone

Mark ing 30 years of Spiritism in the UK Janet Duncan founder of the Spiritist Movement in England gave a opening speech about the Pathway

to Enlightenment The event was broadcast worldwide through TVCEI (wwwtvceicom) and the talks were further broadcast by the Fraternity Radio and Good News Radio of

Brazil This great event focused primarily on bringing

together hearts and souls and also stressing the importance of diversity in our lives

13 speakers each one with their own different way of speaking and expressing themselves but

UNITED KINGDOM

ISC NEWSLETTER no48 14

THE SWEDISH SPIRITIST UNION

On 24th and 25th May Divaldo Pereira Franco was once again in Scandinavia This time in Gothenburg Sweden in a gathering with local Spiritist groups This year our companions from Finland also attended the event The eminent propagator of Spiritism gave a public talk in this city which was translated into Swedish and also a Seminar with the Spiritist Groups present

The Paring Vaumlgen till ljuset Spiritist Group and

the Leon Denis Spiritist Study Centre in Stockholm took part by selling Spiritist books and distributing messages at the Harmony Fair in Stockholm on 23rd and 24th last March It has been noticed during the Fair that people had a growing interest on the Spiritist Doctrine and its foundations

At the Vatumannen Bookstore in Stockholm Spiritist books continue to be sold and information leaflets on Spiritism distributed

The Leon Denis Spiritist Study Centre in

Stockholm is completing the study of the book Efter Doumlden (After Death) by Leon Denis which has already been translated into Swedish

Information spiritismensegmailcom

wwwgsfallankardecblogspotcom

wwwspiritismencom

httpspiritistiskaforbundetblogspotcouk

SWEDEN

2nd QUARTER 2013 15

accommodation and closer contact with people who normally would only have superficial contact one to each other at major events The Spirit Movement in Switzerland owes much to Mr Jorge Godinho who with his vast experience and great patience has been teaching and providing us with advice From 6th to 9th May we had

the great pleasure of having with us Haroldo Dutra a Spiritist speaker who travelled throughout Switzerland giving different talks and a short seminar With the election of the new board of directors of UCESS on 14th April 2013 Rejane Hostettler is now the director of UCESS and there are also 3 vice-directors Pedro Pereira Nelly Berchtold and Dilma Hambrock Rejane is doing a course on theology in Zurich and making Spiritism known amongst other religious denominations so that a new focus of work is being introduced

Two new Spiritist centres have been founded in this period CEBEM in Zurich (Kuumlsnacht) and GEFA in Bern (Zollikofen) In the Italian Switzerland we will be beginning a program of monthly

events in Italian in May (please see the poster) Most Spiritist centres have received a boost of new friends very knowledgeable in Spiritism joining these centres and are providing their help to the Spiritist movement with great motivation

Divaldo Franco spoke in Switzerland on 20th May 2013 in Zurich at G-19 a Spiritist institution In Winthertur at CEEAK he spoke on the following topic Rebellious Spirits and Peace For the Spiritist Centres in Switzerland please visit the website wwwspiritismech nellyberchtoldhotmailcom

UNION OF SPIRITIST STUDY CENTRES IN SWITZERLAND - UCESS

Members of the 10 Spiritist centres in Switzerland have been meeting regularly since

January 2013 for at least a week-end per month in the rural area of Berne to study the Spiritist doctrine Study a n d p r a c t i c e o f mediumship in the 1st half of the year and the Systematic Study of Spiritism is scheduled for 2nd half of the year This study promotes closer ties of friendship because of the study groups the shared

SWITZERLAND

CIVIL ASSOCIATION SOCRATES

We are working to legalise the Venezuelan Spiritist Federation Jose Vasquez L - ingjvasquezgmailcom

VENEZUELA URUGUAYAN SPIRITIST

FEDERATION - USF Seminar - Spiritual Assistance 60th Anniversary of Spiritist Centre Hacia la Verdad Organised by Spiritist Centre Hacia la Verdad Supported by Spiritist Assistance Department of the USF General Flores 4689 Info about the datehacialaverdadmontevideocom uyfeuruguaygmailcom wwwespiritismouruguaycom

URUGUAY

ISC NEWSLETTER no 48 16

SPIRITIST CENTRE LOVE

2 Groups Tallinn and Vosu Please write only in Esperanto Russian or Estonian to Mr August Kilk augustspiritismee

wwwspiritismee

ESTONIA

ALLAN KARDEC SPIRITIST GROUP

Please contact in Esperanto or Hungarian Szabadi Tibor satiborespgmailcom

HUNGARY

SPIRITISM IN FINLAND ALLAN KARDEC TYOumlRYHMAuml In April a talk on the Mediums Books was given in response to the invitation of the Spiritualist event held in Tampere

On 8th and 9th May the Spiritist movement in Finland had an invaluable help by Andrei Moreira on theme Depression from the Spiritist Perspective

The talks were held in Helsinki and Vaumlaumlksy and translated into Finnish We had 120 people who attended the event and apart from the organisers the audience was

100 Finnish It is with great joy that we inform that the Allan Kardec Tyoumlryhmauml ry (Allan Kardec Work Group) received their registration number from the Finnish authorities in May so becoming the first registered Spiritist association in Finland

We are always grateful for each seed of light which is sowed We hope to continue watering our garden of love

Contacts and information infoallankardecfi

infospiritismifi wwwspiritismifi

FINLAND

THE SPIRITIST MOVEMENT IN OTHER COUNTRIES

SPIRITISM IN BELARUS

The President of the Spiritist Group in Minsk (Belarusian Spiritist Group) is Andrei Latsinnik Vice-president Natalia Latsinnik and Spartak Severin is the contact for enquiries from other countries

The group is made up by 15 people From the translation into English or French the ISC newsletter is now also being translated into Russian by Spartak Severin Andrei and Natasha from the Spiritist Group of Minsk Please write only in English French Italian or Russian to spartak-severinyandexby httpbelarusspiritycom

BELARUS

2nd QUARTER 2013 17

Spiritism in Ecuador

In June an Executive Committee member of the ISC will be visiting Guayaquil to carry out tasks and Spiritist seminars organised by the South America Coordination Department

wwwespiritismoquitoblogspotcom

ECUADOR

UAE - UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

There are 3 Groups in the UAE The 3rd Meeting of Spiritist Philosophy of the Middle East took place on 23rd and 26th May with the participation of our dear friend Haroldo Dutra In February the Abu Dhabi Group organized the 6th Lecture Cycle for the 3 groups in the United Arab Emirates This time the guest speaker was

Anete Guimaraes httpespacodespertarblogspotcom

Cesar Augustus - GEEAD

contatogeeadgmailcom httpswwwfacebookcomgeeadabudhabi

Ana Elisa Vilhena ndash GECL -

grupoespiritacaminhodeluzgmailcom

ARAB EMIRATES

ALLAN KARDEC GROUP OF PRAGUE

27th May 2013 Prague

Seminar with Divaldo

Franco

Information allankardecseznamcz website in Czech wwwkardeccz

CZECH REPUBLIC

AUSTRALIA

Further information on the Spiritist Movement in some cities in Australia please visit the following website wwwallankardecsydneyorg allankardecsydneygmailcom

POLAND SPIRITISM IN WARSAW

Further information only in Polish on the website wwwspirytyzmpl konradspirytyzmpl wwwrivailpl

INTERNATIONAL SPIRITIST COUNCIL IN ARGENTINE

EDICEI at the 39th International Book Fair of

Buenos Aires

From 23rd April to 13th May 2013 as it always happened since 2009 the International Spiritist Council through Edicei Iberoamerica and under sponsored by the Argentine Spiritist Federation took part as an exhibitor in the 39th International Book Fair of Buenos Aires

50 countries 500 exhibitors took part in it and attracted 1200000 visitors On the stand more than 100 Spiritist books were on display including the basic works of the codification by Allan Kardec and the Spanish edition of the Spiritist Magazine of 1860 by Allan Kardec

After the event a sale of 455 books were registered including works of the following publishers namely Joanna de Angelis 18 de abril and the CEA

GLOBAL CAMPAIGN IN DEFENCE OF LIFE by the International Spiritist Council The artwork has been approved at the meeting in Havana Cuba It is made up of images in posters in different languages Artwork prepared by the team of the Portuguese Spiritist Federation To send the translation please email Helena on 7helenabbgmailcom Soon available in all languages on the ISC website wwwinterceicom

Spiritist Friend Please visit the website of the International Spiritist Council which is often updated httpceispiriteorges httpceispiriteorgpt httpceispiriteorg httpceispiriteorgfr wwwinterceicom

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ALLAN KARDEC SPIRITIST GROUP - NZ

infoallankardecorgnz

httpallankardecorgnz

NEW ZEALAND

Study Group and AME GEEAK the Spiritist Medical Doctors Association of Coimbra

Contacts wwwgeeakpt

23rd Spiritist Gathering

of Lisbon

At the CEPC Centro Espiacuterita Perdatildeo e Caridade (Forgiveness and Charity Spiritist Centre) The themes are based on the book by Joanna de Angelis entitled Constelaccedilatildeo Familiar (Family

Constellation) From 10am to 5pm

With the participation of the Lisbon Spiritist Music Group and Choir and the Jogral Espiacuterita de Lisboa (Lisbon Spiritist Minstrel) as well as he participation of the DIJ of CEPC

Contacts wwwceperdaoecaridadept

June 17th CONCESP

The National Gathering of Spiritist Children will take place this year in Lisbon on 1st June From 1030 am to 430 pm at the Pousada da Juventude do Parque das Naccedilotildees with the theme Once upon a time the birds of heaven We look forward to seeing you with a lot of disposition and willingness in participating

Enrolment Forms concesp2013gmailcom

httpdijfeportuguesaptconcesp2013

Spiritist Meeting of Alentejo

On Sunday 2nd June from 10am to 6pm the Spiritist Meeting of Alentejo 2013 will take place at the D Fernando Hotel in Evora with the theme Spiritism in Alentejo

Contacts

cefeevoragmailcom

Cultural Spiritist

Meeting 2013

The Cultural Spiritist Meeting 2013 will be dedicated to the theme of The Portuguese Spiritist Movement and

2nd QUARTER 2013 13

will take place on Sunday 30th June from 2pm at its headquarters in Amadora Get to know better the history of the Portuguese Spiritist Movement See you there

Contacts wwwfeportuguesapt

Tel 214 975 754

geralfeportuguesapt

Featured

The Portuguese Spiritist Congress 2013

It will be held in Leiria at the premises of the Spiritist Association of Leiria on 16th amp 17th November under the theme of Mediumship a vision of the future We should point out that the hall has limited capacity so it is recommended that you book your place early

Contacts wwwfeportuguesapt

Please book your place by sending an email to

congressoespiritaportugues2013gmailcom

If you have any queries please dont hesitate to contact us

wwwfeportuguesapt

fepinformafeportuguesapt

focused on the same target which was to touching the soul of every one present in the huge audience awakening in those who were seeking knowledge a new opportunity for a new re-beginning Soon the videos of the talks will be available on Youtube Further information on the BUSS website below Article by Ana Marques

coordinator of Guiding Light Spiritist Society in Canterbury UK Photos Guilherme Almeida Future events in June in UK

Divaldo Franco on 9th June in London 10th June in Glasgow Therezinha Oliveira 23rd June to 30th June Talks in London and Wokingham

All posters and information are available on the BUSS website wwwbussorguk

busseventsgmailcom

BUSS - BRITISH UNION OF SPIRITIST SOCIETIES

2nd British Spiritist Congress Celebrating 30 Years of Spiritism

in the United Kingdom

With the main theme A new Era and the Dawning of a new Humanity the 2nd British Spiritist Congress held on 11th and 12th May 2013 at the main hall of the Quakers Friends House in London and organised by BUSS was a success Participants from 14 different countries were present namely France Norway Denmark Sweden Switzerland Japan Portugal Republic of Ireland Czech Republic Brazil Liechtenstein Germany Australia and Serbia During both Saturday and Sunday a total of 248 people enrolled for the event and were able to enjoy 15 talks offered by 13 speakers Charles Kempf General Secretary of the ISC Harold Dutra Dias Dr Andrei Moreira Speakers present from the UK Janet Duncan President of Allan Kardec Study Group - Centre for Spiritist Teachings London completing 30 years of foundation Guy Lyon Playfair Anne Christine Sinclair Silvia Gibbons Denise Ferrett Maria Gomes Davian Jessamy Elizabeth Freire Stevanin Tania and Tanya Moore

The event was hosted by Christopher Kinghorn There was a musical performance by Diego Carneiro p l a y i n g c e l l o s op r ano Maya Sapone and Martino Scovacricchi playing saxophone

Mark ing 30 years of Spiritism in the UK Janet Duncan founder of the Spiritist Movement in England gave a opening speech about the Pathway

to Enlightenment The event was broadcast worldwide through TVCEI (wwwtvceicom) and the talks were further broadcast by the Fraternity Radio and Good News Radio of

Brazil This great event focused primarily on bringing

together hearts and souls and also stressing the importance of diversity in our lives

13 speakers each one with their own different way of speaking and expressing themselves but

UNITED KINGDOM

ISC NEWSLETTER no48 14

THE SWEDISH SPIRITIST UNION

On 24th and 25th May Divaldo Pereira Franco was once again in Scandinavia This time in Gothenburg Sweden in a gathering with local Spiritist groups This year our companions from Finland also attended the event The eminent propagator of Spiritism gave a public talk in this city which was translated into Swedish and also a Seminar with the Spiritist Groups present

The Paring Vaumlgen till ljuset Spiritist Group and

the Leon Denis Spiritist Study Centre in Stockholm took part by selling Spiritist books and distributing messages at the Harmony Fair in Stockholm on 23rd and 24th last March It has been noticed during the Fair that people had a growing interest on the Spiritist Doctrine and its foundations

At the Vatumannen Bookstore in Stockholm Spiritist books continue to be sold and information leaflets on Spiritism distributed

The Leon Denis Spiritist Study Centre in

Stockholm is completing the study of the book Efter Doumlden (After Death) by Leon Denis which has already been translated into Swedish

Information spiritismensegmailcom

wwwgsfallankardecblogspotcom

wwwspiritismencom

httpspiritistiskaforbundetblogspotcouk

SWEDEN

2nd QUARTER 2013 15

accommodation and closer contact with people who normally would only have superficial contact one to each other at major events The Spirit Movement in Switzerland owes much to Mr Jorge Godinho who with his vast experience and great patience has been teaching and providing us with advice From 6th to 9th May we had

the great pleasure of having with us Haroldo Dutra a Spiritist speaker who travelled throughout Switzerland giving different talks and a short seminar With the election of the new board of directors of UCESS on 14th April 2013 Rejane Hostettler is now the director of UCESS and there are also 3 vice-directors Pedro Pereira Nelly Berchtold and Dilma Hambrock Rejane is doing a course on theology in Zurich and making Spiritism known amongst other religious denominations so that a new focus of work is being introduced

Two new Spiritist centres have been founded in this period CEBEM in Zurich (Kuumlsnacht) and GEFA in Bern (Zollikofen) In the Italian Switzerland we will be beginning a program of monthly

events in Italian in May (please see the poster) Most Spiritist centres have received a boost of new friends very knowledgeable in Spiritism joining these centres and are providing their help to the Spiritist movement with great motivation

Divaldo Franco spoke in Switzerland on 20th May 2013 in Zurich at G-19 a Spiritist institution In Winthertur at CEEAK he spoke on the following topic Rebellious Spirits and Peace For the Spiritist Centres in Switzerland please visit the website wwwspiritismech nellyberchtoldhotmailcom

UNION OF SPIRITIST STUDY CENTRES IN SWITZERLAND - UCESS

Members of the 10 Spiritist centres in Switzerland have been meeting regularly since

January 2013 for at least a week-end per month in the rural area of Berne to study the Spiritist doctrine Study a n d p r a c t i c e o f mediumship in the 1st half of the year and the Systematic Study of Spiritism is scheduled for 2nd half of the year This study promotes closer ties of friendship because of the study groups the shared

SWITZERLAND

CIVIL ASSOCIATION SOCRATES

We are working to legalise the Venezuelan Spiritist Federation Jose Vasquez L - ingjvasquezgmailcom

VENEZUELA URUGUAYAN SPIRITIST

FEDERATION - USF Seminar - Spiritual Assistance 60th Anniversary of Spiritist Centre Hacia la Verdad Organised by Spiritist Centre Hacia la Verdad Supported by Spiritist Assistance Department of the USF General Flores 4689 Info about the datehacialaverdadmontevideocom uyfeuruguaygmailcom wwwespiritismouruguaycom

URUGUAY

ISC NEWSLETTER no 48 16

SPIRITIST CENTRE LOVE

2 Groups Tallinn and Vosu Please write only in Esperanto Russian or Estonian to Mr August Kilk augustspiritismee

wwwspiritismee

ESTONIA

ALLAN KARDEC SPIRITIST GROUP

Please contact in Esperanto or Hungarian Szabadi Tibor satiborespgmailcom

HUNGARY

SPIRITISM IN FINLAND ALLAN KARDEC TYOumlRYHMAuml In April a talk on the Mediums Books was given in response to the invitation of the Spiritualist event held in Tampere

On 8th and 9th May the Spiritist movement in Finland had an invaluable help by Andrei Moreira on theme Depression from the Spiritist Perspective

The talks were held in Helsinki and Vaumlaumlksy and translated into Finnish We had 120 people who attended the event and apart from the organisers the audience was

100 Finnish It is with great joy that we inform that the Allan Kardec Tyoumlryhmauml ry (Allan Kardec Work Group) received their registration number from the Finnish authorities in May so becoming the first registered Spiritist association in Finland

We are always grateful for each seed of light which is sowed We hope to continue watering our garden of love

Contacts and information infoallankardecfi

infospiritismifi wwwspiritismifi

FINLAND

THE SPIRITIST MOVEMENT IN OTHER COUNTRIES

SPIRITISM IN BELARUS

The President of the Spiritist Group in Minsk (Belarusian Spiritist Group) is Andrei Latsinnik Vice-president Natalia Latsinnik and Spartak Severin is the contact for enquiries from other countries

The group is made up by 15 people From the translation into English or French the ISC newsletter is now also being translated into Russian by Spartak Severin Andrei and Natasha from the Spiritist Group of Minsk Please write only in English French Italian or Russian to spartak-severinyandexby httpbelarusspiritycom

BELARUS

2nd QUARTER 2013 17

Spiritism in Ecuador

In June an Executive Committee member of the ISC will be visiting Guayaquil to carry out tasks and Spiritist seminars organised by the South America Coordination Department

wwwespiritismoquitoblogspotcom

ECUADOR

UAE - UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

There are 3 Groups in the UAE The 3rd Meeting of Spiritist Philosophy of the Middle East took place on 23rd and 26th May with the participation of our dear friend Haroldo Dutra In February the Abu Dhabi Group organized the 6th Lecture Cycle for the 3 groups in the United Arab Emirates This time the guest speaker was

Anete Guimaraes httpespacodespertarblogspotcom

Cesar Augustus - GEEAD

contatogeeadgmailcom httpswwwfacebookcomgeeadabudhabi

Ana Elisa Vilhena ndash GECL -

grupoespiritacaminhodeluzgmailcom

ARAB EMIRATES

ALLAN KARDEC GROUP OF PRAGUE

27th May 2013 Prague

Seminar with Divaldo

Franco

Information allankardecseznamcz website in Czech wwwkardeccz

CZECH REPUBLIC

AUSTRALIA

Further information on the Spiritist Movement in some cities in Australia please visit the following website wwwallankardecsydneyorg allankardecsydneygmailcom

POLAND SPIRITISM IN WARSAW

Further information only in Polish on the website wwwspirytyzmpl konradspirytyzmpl wwwrivailpl

INTERNATIONAL SPIRITIST COUNCIL IN ARGENTINE

EDICEI at the 39th International Book Fair of

Buenos Aires

From 23rd April to 13th May 2013 as it always happened since 2009 the International Spiritist Council through Edicei Iberoamerica and under sponsored by the Argentine Spiritist Federation took part as an exhibitor in the 39th International Book Fair of Buenos Aires

50 countries 500 exhibitors took part in it and attracted 1200000 visitors On the stand more than 100 Spiritist books were on display including the basic works of the codification by Allan Kardec and the Spanish edition of the Spiritist Magazine of 1860 by Allan Kardec

After the event a sale of 455 books were registered including works of the following publishers namely Joanna de Angelis 18 de abril and the CEA

GLOBAL CAMPAIGN IN DEFENCE OF LIFE by the International Spiritist Council The artwork has been approved at the meeting in Havana Cuba It is made up of images in posters in different languages Artwork prepared by the team of the Portuguese Spiritist Federation To send the translation please email Helena on 7helenabbgmailcom Soon available in all languages on the ISC website wwwinterceicom

Spiritist Friend Please visit the website of the International Spiritist Council which is often updated httpceispiriteorges httpceispiriteorgpt httpceispiriteorg httpceispiriteorgfr wwwinterceicom

Page 14: INTERNATIONAL SPIRITIST COUNCIL · Divaldo spoke about mediumship, but with an initial approach that studied the characteristics of human beings and their different levels of consciousness

focused on the same target which was to touching the soul of every one present in the huge audience awakening in those who were seeking knowledge a new opportunity for a new re-beginning Soon the videos of the talks will be available on Youtube Further information on the BUSS website below Article by Ana Marques

coordinator of Guiding Light Spiritist Society in Canterbury UK Photos Guilherme Almeida Future events in June in UK

Divaldo Franco on 9th June in London 10th June in Glasgow Therezinha Oliveira 23rd June to 30th June Talks in London and Wokingham

All posters and information are available on the BUSS website wwwbussorguk

busseventsgmailcom

BUSS - BRITISH UNION OF SPIRITIST SOCIETIES

2nd British Spiritist Congress Celebrating 30 Years of Spiritism

in the United Kingdom

With the main theme A new Era and the Dawning of a new Humanity the 2nd British Spiritist Congress held on 11th and 12th May 2013 at the main hall of the Quakers Friends House in London and organised by BUSS was a success Participants from 14 different countries were present namely France Norway Denmark Sweden Switzerland Japan Portugal Republic of Ireland Czech Republic Brazil Liechtenstein Germany Australia and Serbia During both Saturday and Sunday a total of 248 people enrolled for the event and were able to enjoy 15 talks offered by 13 speakers Charles Kempf General Secretary of the ISC Harold Dutra Dias Dr Andrei Moreira Speakers present from the UK Janet Duncan President of Allan Kardec Study Group - Centre for Spiritist Teachings London completing 30 years of foundation Guy Lyon Playfair Anne Christine Sinclair Silvia Gibbons Denise Ferrett Maria Gomes Davian Jessamy Elizabeth Freire Stevanin Tania and Tanya Moore

The event was hosted by Christopher Kinghorn There was a musical performance by Diego Carneiro p l a y i n g c e l l o s op r ano Maya Sapone and Martino Scovacricchi playing saxophone

Mark ing 30 years of Spiritism in the UK Janet Duncan founder of the Spiritist Movement in England gave a opening speech about the Pathway

to Enlightenment The event was broadcast worldwide through TVCEI (wwwtvceicom) and the talks were further broadcast by the Fraternity Radio and Good News Radio of

Brazil This great event focused primarily on bringing

together hearts and souls and also stressing the importance of diversity in our lives

13 speakers each one with their own different way of speaking and expressing themselves but

UNITED KINGDOM

ISC NEWSLETTER no48 14

THE SWEDISH SPIRITIST UNION

On 24th and 25th May Divaldo Pereira Franco was once again in Scandinavia This time in Gothenburg Sweden in a gathering with local Spiritist groups This year our companions from Finland also attended the event The eminent propagator of Spiritism gave a public talk in this city which was translated into Swedish and also a Seminar with the Spiritist Groups present

The Paring Vaumlgen till ljuset Spiritist Group and

the Leon Denis Spiritist Study Centre in Stockholm took part by selling Spiritist books and distributing messages at the Harmony Fair in Stockholm on 23rd and 24th last March It has been noticed during the Fair that people had a growing interest on the Spiritist Doctrine and its foundations

At the Vatumannen Bookstore in Stockholm Spiritist books continue to be sold and information leaflets on Spiritism distributed

The Leon Denis Spiritist Study Centre in

Stockholm is completing the study of the book Efter Doumlden (After Death) by Leon Denis which has already been translated into Swedish

Information spiritismensegmailcom

wwwgsfallankardecblogspotcom

wwwspiritismencom

httpspiritistiskaforbundetblogspotcouk

SWEDEN

2nd QUARTER 2013 15

accommodation and closer contact with people who normally would only have superficial contact one to each other at major events The Spirit Movement in Switzerland owes much to Mr Jorge Godinho who with his vast experience and great patience has been teaching and providing us with advice From 6th to 9th May we had

the great pleasure of having with us Haroldo Dutra a Spiritist speaker who travelled throughout Switzerland giving different talks and a short seminar With the election of the new board of directors of UCESS on 14th April 2013 Rejane Hostettler is now the director of UCESS and there are also 3 vice-directors Pedro Pereira Nelly Berchtold and Dilma Hambrock Rejane is doing a course on theology in Zurich and making Spiritism known amongst other religious denominations so that a new focus of work is being introduced

Two new Spiritist centres have been founded in this period CEBEM in Zurich (Kuumlsnacht) and GEFA in Bern (Zollikofen) In the Italian Switzerland we will be beginning a program of monthly

events in Italian in May (please see the poster) Most Spiritist centres have received a boost of new friends very knowledgeable in Spiritism joining these centres and are providing their help to the Spiritist movement with great motivation

Divaldo Franco spoke in Switzerland on 20th May 2013 in Zurich at G-19 a Spiritist institution In Winthertur at CEEAK he spoke on the following topic Rebellious Spirits and Peace For the Spiritist Centres in Switzerland please visit the website wwwspiritismech nellyberchtoldhotmailcom

UNION OF SPIRITIST STUDY CENTRES IN SWITZERLAND - UCESS

Members of the 10 Spiritist centres in Switzerland have been meeting regularly since

January 2013 for at least a week-end per month in the rural area of Berne to study the Spiritist doctrine Study a n d p r a c t i c e o f mediumship in the 1st half of the year and the Systematic Study of Spiritism is scheduled for 2nd half of the year This study promotes closer ties of friendship because of the study groups the shared

SWITZERLAND

CIVIL ASSOCIATION SOCRATES

We are working to legalise the Venezuelan Spiritist Federation Jose Vasquez L - ingjvasquezgmailcom

VENEZUELA URUGUAYAN SPIRITIST

FEDERATION - USF Seminar - Spiritual Assistance 60th Anniversary of Spiritist Centre Hacia la Verdad Organised by Spiritist Centre Hacia la Verdad Supported by Spiritist Assistance Department of the USF General Flores 4689 Info about the datehacialaverdadmontevideocom uyfeuruguaygmailcom wwwespiritismouruguaycom

URUGUAY

ISC NEWSLETTER no 48 16

SPIRITIST CENTRE LOVE

2 Groups Tallinn and Vosu Please write only in Esperanto Russian or Estonian to Mr August Kilk augustspiritismee

wwwspiritismee

ESTONIA

ALLAN KARDEC SPIRITIST GROUP

Please contact in Esperanto or Hungarian Szabadi Tibor satiborespgmailcom

HUNGARY

SPIRITISM IN FINLAND ALLAN KARDEC TYOumlRYHMAuml In April a talk on the Mediums Books was given in response to the invitation of the Spiritualist event held in Tampere

On 8th and 9th May the Spiritist movement in Finland had an invaluable help by Andrei Moreira on theme Depression from the Spiritist Perspective

The talks were held in Helsinki and Vaumlaumlksy and translated into Finnish We had 120 people who attended the event and apart from the organisers the audience was

100 Finnish It is with great joy that we inform that the Allan Kardec Tyoumlryhmauml ry (Allan Kardec Work Group) received their registration number from the Finnish authorities in May so becoming the first registered Spiritist association in Finland

We are always grateful for each seed of light which is sowed We hope to continue watering our garden of love

Contacts and information infoallankardecfi

infospiritismifi wwwspiritismifi

FINLAND

THE SPIRITIST MOVEMENT IN OTHER COUNTRIES

SPIRITISM IN BELARUS

The President of the Spiritist Group in Minsk (Belarusian Spiritist Group) is Andrei Latsinnik Vice-president Natalia Latsinnik and Spartak Severin is the contact for enquiries from other countries

The group is made up by 15 people From the translation into English or French the ISC newsletter is now also being translated into Russian by Spartak Severin Andrei and Natasha from the Spiritist Group of Minsk Please write only in English French Italian or Russian to spartak-severinyandexby httpbelarusspiritycom

BELARUS

2nd QUARTER 2013 17

Spiritism in Ecuador

In June an Executive Committee member of the ISC will be visiting Guayaquil to carry out tasks and Spiritist seminars organised by the South America Coordination Department

wwwespiritismoquitoblogspotcom

ECUADOR

UAE - UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

There are 3 Groups in the UAE The 3rd Meeting of Spiritist Philosophy of the Middle East took place on 23rd and 26th May with the participation of our dear friend Haroldo Dutra In February the Abu Dhabi Group organized the 6th Lecture Cycle for the 3 groups in the United Arab Emirates This time the guest speaker was

Anete Guimaraes httpespacodespertarblogspotcom

Cesar Augustus - GEEAD

contatogeeadgmailcom httpswwwfacebookcomgeeadabudhabi

Ana Elisa Vilhena ndash GECL -

grupoespiritacaminhodeluzgmailcom

ARAB EMIRATES

ALLAN KARDEC GROUP OF PRAGUE

27th May 2013 Prague

Seminar with Divaldo

Franco

Information allankardecseznamcz website in Czech wwwkardeccz

CZECH REPUBLIC

AUSTRALIA

Further information on the Spiritist Movement in some cities in Australia please visit the following website wwwallankardecsydneyorg allankardecsydneygmailcom

POLAND SPIRITISM IN WARSAW

Further information only in Polish on the website wwwspirytyzmpl konradspirytyzmpl wwwrivailpl

INTERNATIONAL SPIRITIST COUNCIL IN ARGENTINE

EDICEI at the 39th International Book Fair of

Buenos Aires

From 23rd April to 13th May 2013 as it always happened since 2009 the International Spiritist Council through Edicei Iberoamerica and under sponsored by the Argentine Spiritist Federation took part as an exhibitor in the 39th International Book Fair of Buenos Aires

50 countries 500 exhibitors took part in it and attracted 1200000 visitors On the stand more than 100 Spiritist books were on display including the basic works of the codification by Allan Kardec and the Spanish edition of the Spiritist Magazine of 1860 by Allan Kardec

After the event a sale of 455 books were registered including works of the following publishers namely Joanna de Angelis 18 de abril and the CEA

GLOBAL CAMPAIGN IN DEFENCE OF LIFE by the International Spiritist Council The artwork has been approved at the meeting in Havana Cuba It is made up of images in posters in different languages Artwork prepared by the team of the Portuguese Spiritist Federation To send the translation please email Helena on 7helenabbgmailcom Soon available in all languages on the ISC website wwwinterceicom

Spiritist Friend Please visit the website of the International Spiritist Council which is often updated httpceispiriteorges httpceispiriteorgpt httpceispiriteorg httpceispiriteorgfr wwwinterceicom

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THE SWEDISH SPIRITIST UNION

On 24th and 25th May Divaldo Pereira Franco was once again in Scandinavia This time in Gothenburg Sweden in a gathering with local Spiritist groups This year our companions from Finland also attended the event The eminent propagator of Spiritism gave a public talk in this city which was translated into Swedish and also a Seminar with the Spiritist Groups present

The Paring Vaumlgen till ljuset Spiritist Group and

the Leon Denis Spiritist Study Centre in Stockholm took part by selling Spiritist books and distributing messages at the Harmony Fair in Stockholm on 23rd and 24th last March It has been noticed during the Fair that people had a growing interest on the Spiritist Doctrine and its foundations

At the Vatumannen Bookstore in Stockholm Spiritist books continue to be sold and information leaflets on Spiritism distributed

The Leon Denis Spiritist Study Centre in

Stockholm is completing the study of the book Efter Doumlden (After Death) by Leon Denis which has already been translated into Swedish

Information spiritismensegmailcom

wwwgsfallankardecblogspotcom

wwwspiritismencom

httpspiritistiskaforbundetblogspotcouk

SWEDEN

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accommodation and closer contact with people who normally would only have superficial contact one to each other at major events The Spirit Movement in Switzerland owes much to Mr Jorge Godinho who with his vast experience and great patience has been teaching and providing us with advice From 6th to 9th May we had

the great pleasure of having with us Haroldo Dutra a Spiritist speaker who travelled throughout Switzerland giving different talks and a short seminar With the election of the new board of directors of UCESS on 14th April 2013 Rejane Hostettler is now the director of UCESS and there are also 3 vice-directors Pedro Pereira Nelly Berchtold and Dilma Hambrock Rejane is doing a course on theology in Zurich and making Spiritism known amongst other religious denominations so that a new focus of work is being introduced

Two new Spiritist centres have been founded in this period CEBEM in Zurich (Kuumlsnacht) and GEFA in Bern (Zollikofen) In the Italian Switzerland we will be beginning a program of monthly

events in Italian in May (please see the poster) Most Spiritist centres have received a boost of new friends very knowledgeable in Spiritism joining these centres and are providing their help to the Spiritist movement with great motivation

Divaldo Franco spoke in Switzerland on 20th May 2013 in Zurich at G-19 a Spiritist institution In Winthertur at CEEAK he spoke on the following topic Rebellious Spirits and Peace For the Spiritist Centres in Switzerland please visit the website wwwspiritismech nellyberchtoldhotmailcom

UNION OF SPIRITIST STUDY CENTRES IN SWITZERLAND - UCESS

Members of the 10 Spiritist centres in Switzerland have been meeting regularly since

January 2013 for at least a week-end per month in the rural area of Berne to study the Spiritist doctrine Study a n d p r a c t i c e o f mediumship in the 1st half of the year and the Systematic Study of Spiritism is scheduled for 2nd half of the year This study promotes closer ties of friendship because of the study groups the shared

SWITZERLAND

CIVIL ASSOCIATION SOCRATES

We are working to legalise the Venezuelan Spiritist Federation Jose Vasquez L - ingjvasquezgmailcom

VENEZUELA URUGUAYAN SPIRITIST

FEDERATION - USF Seminar - Spiritual Assistance 60th Anniversary of Spiritist Centre Hacia la Verdad Organised by Spiritist Centre Hacia la Verdad Supported by Spiritist Assistance Department of the USF General Flores 4689 Info about the datehacialaverdadmontevideocom uyfeuruguaygmailcom wwwespiritismouruguaycom

URUGUAY

ISC NEWSLETTER no 48 16

SPIRITIST CENTRE LOVE

2 Groups Tallinn and Vosu Please write only in Esperanto Russian or Estonian to Mr August Kilk augustspiritismee

wwwspiritismee

ESTONIA

ALLAN KARDEC SPIRITIST GROUP

Please contact in Esperanto or Hungarian Szabadi Tibor satiborespgmailcom

HUNGARY

SPIRITISM IN FINLAND ALLAN KARDEC TYOumlRYHMAuml In April a talk on the Mediums Books was given in response to the invitation of the Spiritualist event held in Tampere

On 8th and 9th May the Spiritist movement in Finland had an invaluable help by Andrei Moreira on theme Depression from the Spiritist Perspective

The talks were held in Helsinki and Vaumlaumlksy and translated into Finnish We had 120 people who attended the event and apart from the organisers the audience was

100 Finnish It is with great joy that we inform that the Allan Kardec Tyoumlryhmauml ry (Allan Kardec Work Group) received their registration number from the Finnish authorities in May so becoming the first registered Spiritist association in Finland

We are always grateful for each seed of light which is sowed We hope to continue watering our garden of love

Contacts and information infoallankardecfi

infospiritismifi wwwspiritismifi

FINLAND

THE SPIRITIST MOVEMENT IN OTHER COUNTRIES

SPIRITISM IN BELARUS

The President of the Spiritist Group in Minsk (Belarusian Spiritist Group) is Andrei Latsinnik Vice-president Natalia Latsinnik and Spartak Severin is the contact for enquiries from other countries

The group is made up by 15 people From the translation into English or French the ISC newsletter is now also being translated into Russian by Spartak Severin Andrei and Natasha from the Spiritist Group of Minsk Please write only in English French Italian or Russian to spartak-severinyandexby httpbelarusspiritycom

BELARUS

2nd QUARTER 2013 17

Spiritism in Ecuador

In June an Executive Committee member of the ISC will be visiting Guayaquil to carry out tasks and Spiritist seminars organised by the South America Coordination Department

wwwespiritismoquitoblogspotcom

ECUADOR

UAE - UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

There are 3 Groups in the UAE The 3rd Meeting of Spiritist Philosophy of the Middle East took place on 23rd and 26th May with the participation of our dear friend Haroldo Dutra In February the Abu Dhabi Group organized the 6th Lecture Cycle for the 3 groups in the United Arab Emirates This time the guest speaker was

Anete Guimaraes httpespacodespertarblogspotcom

Cesar Augustus - GEEAD

contatogeeadgmailcom httpswwwfacebookcomgeeadabudhabi

Ana Elisa Vilhena ndash GECL -

grupoespiritacaminhodeluzgmailcom

ARAB EMIRATES

ALLAN KARDEC GROUP OF PRAGUE

27th May 2013 Prague

Seminar with Divaldo

Franco

Information allankardecseznamcz website in Czech wwwkardeccz

CZECH REPUBLIC

AUSTRALIA

Further information on the Spiritist Movement in some cities in Australia please visit the following website wwwallankardecsydneyorg allankardecsydneygmailcom

POLAND SPIRITISM IN WARSAW

Further information only in Polish on the website wwwspirytyzmpl konradspirytyzmpl wwwrivailpl

INTERNATIONAL SPIRITIST COUNCIL IN ARGENTINE

EDICEI at the 39th International Book Fair of

Buenos Aires

From 23rd April to 13th May 2013 as it always happened since 2009 the International Spiritist Council through Edicei Iberoamerica and under sponsored by the Argentine Spiritist Federation took part as an exhibitor in the 39th International Book Fair of Buenos Aires

50 countries 500 exhibitors took part in it and attracted 1200000 visitors On the stand more than 100 Spiritist books were on display including the basic works of the codification by Allan Kardec and the Spanish edition of the Spiritist Magazine of 1860 by Allan Kardec

After the event a sale of 455 books were registered including works of the following publishers namely Joanna de Angelis 18 de abril and the CEA

GLOBAL CAMPAIGN IN DEFENCE OF LIFE by the International Spiritist Council The artwork has been approved at the meeting in Havana Cuba It is made up of images in posters in different languages Artwork prepared by the team of the Portuguese Spiritist Federation To send the translation please email Helena on 7helenabbgmailcom Soon available in all languages on the ISC website wwwinterceicom

Spiritist Friend Please visit the website of the International Spiritist Council which is often updated httpceispiriteorges httpceispiriteorgpt httpceispiriteorg httpceispiriteorgfr wwwinterceicom

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CIVIL ASSOCIATION SOCRATES

We are working to legalise the Venezuelan Spiritist Federation Jose Vasquez L - ingjvasquezgmailcom

VENEZUELA URUGUAYAN SPIRITIST

FEDERATION - USF Seminar - Spiritual Assistance 60th Anniversary of Spiritist Centre Hacia la Verdad Organised by Spiritist Centre Hacia la Verdad Supported by Spiritist Assistance Department of the USF General Flores 4689 Info about the datehacialaverdadmontevideocom uyfeuruguaygmailcom wwwespiritismouruguaycom

URUGUAY

ISC NEWSLETTER no 48 16

SPIRITIST CENTRE LOVE

2 Groups Tallinn and Vosu Please write only in Esperanto Russian or Estonian to Mr August Kilk augustspiritismee

wwwspiritismee

ESTONIA

ALLAN KARDEC SPIRITIST GROUP

Please contact in Esperanto or Hungarian Szabadi Tibor satiborespgmailcom

HUNGARY

SPIRITISM IN FINLAND ALLAN KARDEC TYOumlRYHMAuml In April a talk on the Mediums Books was given in response to the invitation of the Spiritualist event held in Tampere

On 8th and 9th May the Spiritist movement in Finland had an invaluable help by Andrei Moreira on theme Depression from the Spiritist Perspective

The talks were held in Helsinki and Vaumlaumlksy and translated into Finnish We had 120 people who attended the event and apart from the organisers the audience was

100 Finnish It is with great joy that we inform that the Allan Kardec Tyoumlryhmauml ry (Allan Kardec Work Group) received their registration number from the Finnish authorities in May so becoming the first registered Spiritist association in Finland

We are always grateful for each seed of light which is sowed We hope to continue watering our garden of love

Contacts and information infoallankardecfi

infospiritismifi wwwspiritismifi

FINLAND

THE SPIRITIST MOVEMENT IN OTHER COUNTRIES

SPIRITISM IN BELARUS

The President of the Spiritist Group in Minsk (Belarusian Spiritist Group) is Andrei Latsinnik Vice-president Natalia Latsinnik and Spartak Severin is the contact for enquiries from other countries

The group is made up by 15 people From the translation into English or French the ISC newsletter is now also being translated into Russian by Spartak Severin Andrei and Natasha from the Spiritist Group of Minsk Please write only in English French Italian or Russian to spartak-severinyandexby httpbelarusspiritycom

BELARUS

2nd QUARTER 2013 17

Spiritism in Ecuador

In June an Executive Committee member of the ISC will be visiting Guayaquil to carry out tasks and Spiritist seminars organised by the South America Coordination Department

wwwespiritismoquitoblogspotcom

ECUADOR

UAE - UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

There are 3 Groups in the UAE The 3rd Meeting of Spiritist Philosophy of the Middle East took place on 23rd and 26th May with the participation of our dear friend Haroldo Dutra In February the Abu Dhabi Group organized the 6th Lecture Cycle for the 3 groups in the United Arab Emirates This time the guest speaker was

Anete Guimaraes httpespacodespertarblogspotcom

Cesar Augustus - GEEAD

contatogeeadgmailcom httpswwwfacebookcomgeeadabudhabi

Ana Elisa Vilhena ndash GECL -

grupoespiritacaminhodeluzgmailcom

ARAB EMIRATES

ALLAN KARDEC GROUP OF PRAGUE

27th May 2013 Prague

Seminar with Divaldo

Franco

Information allankardecseznamcz website in Czech wwwkardeccz

CZECH REPUBLIC

AUSTRALIA

Further information on the Spiritist Movement in some cities in Australia please visit the following website wwwallankardecsydneyorg allankardecsydneygmailcom

POLAND SPIRITISM IN WARSAW

Further information only in Polish on the website wwwspirytyzmpl konradspirytyzmpl wwwrivailpl

INTERNATIONAL SPIRITIST COUNCIL IN ARGENTINE

EDICEI at the 39th International Book Fair of

Buenos Aires

From 23rd April to 13th May 2013 as it always happened since 2009 the International Spiritist Council through Edicei Iberoamerica and under sponsored by the Argentine Spiritist Federation took part as an exhibitor in the 39th International Book Fair of Buenos Aires

50 countries 500 exhibitors took part in it and attracted 1200000 visitors On the stand more than 100 Spiritist books were on display including the basic works of the codification by Allan Kardec and the Spanish edition of the Spiritist Magazine of 1860 by Allan Kardec

After the event a sale of 455 books were registered including works of the following publishers namely Joanna de Angelis 18 de abril and the CEA

GLOBAL CAMPAIGN IN DEFENCE OF LIFE by the International Spiritist Council The artwork has been approved at the meeting in Havana Cuba It is made up of images in posters in different languages Artwork prepared by the team of the Portuguese Spiritist Federation To send the translation please email Helena on 7helenabbgmailcom Soon available in all languages on the ISC website wwwinterceicom

Spiritist Friend Please visit the website of the International Spiritist Council which is often updated httpceispiriteorges httpceispiriteorgpt httpceispiriteorg httpceispiriteorgfr wwwinterceicom

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2nd QUARTER 2013 17

Spiritism in Ecuador

In June an Executive Committee member of the ISC will be visiting Guayaquil to carry out tasks and Spiritist seminars organised by the South America Coordination Department

wwwespiritismoquitoblogspotcom

ECUADOR

UAE - UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

There are 3 Groups in the UAE The 3rd Meeting of Spiritist Philosophy of the Middle East took place on 23rd and 26th May with the participation of our dear friend Haroldo Dutra In February the Abu Dhabi Group organized the 6th Lecture Cycle for the 3 groups in the United Arab Emirates This time the guest speaker was

Anete Guimaraes httpespacodespertarblogspotcom

Cesar Augustus - GEEAD

contatogeeadgmailcom httpswwwfacebookcomgeeadabudhabi

Ana Elisa Vilhena ndash GECL -

grupoespiritacaminhodeluzgmailcom

ARAB EMIRATES

ALLAN KARDEC GROUP OF PRAGUE

27th May 2013 Prague

Seminar with Divaldo

Franco

Information allankardecseznamcz website in Czech wwwkardeccz

CZECH REPUBLIC

AUSTRALIA

Further information on the Spiritist Movement in some cities in Australia please visit the following website wwwallankardecsydneyorg allankardecsydneygmailcom

POLAND SPIRITISM IN WARSAW

Further information only in Polish on the website wwwspirytyzmpl konradspirytyzmpl wwwrivailpl

INTERNATIONAL SPIRITIST COUNCIL IN ARGENTINE

EDICEI at the 39th International Book Fair of

Buenos Aires

From 23rd April to 13th May 2013 as it always happened since 2009 the International Spiritist Council through Edicei Iberoamerica and under sponsored by the Argentine Spiritist Federation took part as an exhibitor in the 39th International Book Fair of Buenos Aires

50 countries 500 exhibitors took part in it and attracted 1200000 visitors On the stand more than 100 Spiritist books were on display including the basic works of the codification by Allan Kardec and the Spanish edition of the Spiritist Magazine of 1860 by Allan Kardec

After the event a sale of 455 books were registered including works of the following publishers namely Joanna de Angelis 18 de abril and the CEA

GLOBAL CAMPAIGN IN DEFENCE OF LIFE by the International Spiritist Council The artwork has been approved at the meeting in Havana Cuba It is made up of images in posters in different languages Artwork prepared by the team of the Portuguese Spiritist Federation To send the translation please email Helena on 7helenabbgmailcom Soon available in all languages on the ISC website wwwinterceicom

Spiritist Friend Please visit the website of the International Spiritist Council which is often updated httpceispiriteorges httpceispiriteorgpt httpceispiriteorg httpceispiriteorgfr wwwinterceicom

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GLOBAL CAMPAIGN IN DEFENCE OF LIFE by the International Spiritist Council The artwork has been approved at the meeting in Havana Cuba It is made up of images in posters in different languages Artwork prepared by the team of the Portuguese Spiritist Federation To send the translation please email Helena on 7helenabbgmailcom Soon available in all languages on the ISC website wwwinterceicom

Spiritist Friend Please visit the website of the International Spiritist Council which is often updated httpceispiriteorges httpceispiriteorgpt httpceispiriteorg httpceispiriteorgfr wwwinterceicom