Sao Paulo, Brazil, Jun 20, 2009 / 16:41 pm
Moysés Louro de Azevedo Filho, the founder of Shalom, is working to share the Gospel with the world by creatively and boldly giving a “powerful response to secularism.”
The movement, begun in 1982 in Brazil, is based on the apostles’ encounter with the risen Christ in the Gospel of St. John, and the Lord’s greeting to them, “Peace be with you,” in Aramaic, “Shalom.” Through this experience, the apostles were able to live out the peace and love of the Trinity, and the first to experience this was Thomas, who doubted, and eventually spreading the Gospel to the ends of the earth.
Today, the ministry of Shalom is carried out through a Catholic evangelization center that focuses on contemplation, unity and evangelization.
Similarly, the brothers of Shalom have encountered the Holy Spirit and go out to proclaim the truth to those who are spiritually lost, Moysés explained in an interview with Aid to the Church in Need (ACN).