The spiritist teachings explain that the soul endures, in fact, a long journey through the inferior realms of creation until it reaches the stage of humanity, which enables us to understand some curious events that occur in the animal kingdom. This is the subject of this week’s editorial, entitled Do animals have imortal souls?

One of the highlights of the week is the interview conceded by our confrere Wellerson Santos, from Campo da Mata- Minas Gerais state, to our colleague Wellington Balbo.

Wellerson lives in Belo Horizonte (MG) and is a medium as well as a spiritist speaker and writer, who has been visiting various cities of Brazil delivering lectures in order  to disseminate the spiritist doctrine, which is one of the subjects of his interview. 

Another highlight of the week is the special from Leda Maria Flaborea, from São Paulo, who has completed the study about automatism and perispirit or spiritual body, which is, according to the spiritist doctrine, what models our physical body.  

During the third Brazilian Spiritist Congress, held in the city of Brazilia (Brazil’s capital) last month, Divaldo Franco had a special meeting with the youngsters, as shown in the special report which is also one of the highlights of this edition. 

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On the 30th May 1431, Joana D’Arc was taken to the fire of the Inquisition and was in 1920, almost 500 years later, canonized by the Pope Benedict XV and then in 1922, declared the patron saint of France.