No one ignores the importance of affection and love in the task of educating children and constructing a home where a child can turn into an adult who acts and lives worthily. This is the focus of this week’s editorial, entitled The hand that hits is the same that cherishes.

One of the highlights this week is the interview conceded to our collaborator and editor Antonio Nascimento by the confrere João Paulo Bittencourt Cardozo, from Sarandi (state of Rio Grande do Sul). In the interview, the confrere, who is a Public Defender, talks about some of his experiences on the search for a better world and instigates us to unite efforts in benefit of this ideal through Spiritist actions.

Another highlight in this issue is the special report by Paulo da Silva Neto Sobrinho, who analyzes the theme communication between both plans, while he comments the book The dead speak to us by the Father François Brune, who positively affirms that we are able to communicate with those we so-called deads.

The Dutch Spiritist Council has promoted the I Fraternal Meeting on January 31st, in Wervershoof, Netherlands, whose main objective was the team work between children, youngsters and adults, as shows the report by Claudia Werdine, which is also a highlight in this edition. 

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The day of tomorrow, February 15th, reminds us the disincarnation date of Gabriel Delanne, which took place in 1926. Being considered one of the most important Spiritist authors, Delanne has founded the French Spiritist Union in 1882 and the newspaper Le Spiritisme in the same year, leaving us works of great relevance for the Spiritist scholars, such as Spiritism and Science; The Spiritist Phenomenon; The Evolution of the Soul; The Soul is Immortal; The Materialized Apparitions of the Living and the Dead, in 2 volumes, and The Reincarnation.