A “jornada da confiança”, as the meetings of the Pilgrimage of Trust are called in Brazil, was held from October 9 to 12 in Salvador in the parish of Nossa Senhora da Conceição da Lapinha. Nearly five hundred young people from different cities of Bahia took part in it, some from even further, and even two young people from Bolivia.The adventure began in late May when young people from the parish (...)
10 November 2015
Apprenticeships: Thirsting for a future João, a young computer scientist spending some months as a volunteer with the Taizé brothers in Alagoinhas, writes about his experience with children in poor neighbourhoods. He has worked on the training courses which have developed alongside the activities of the “brincadeira”, which the brothers have been running for many years. For the second time this (...)
4 December 2014
Taizé brothers have been living in Brazil since 1966. The first "fraternity" (house) was at Recife, in the North East of Brazil, in the diocese of Bishop Helder Camara, with whom Brother Roger had established a close friendship during the Second Vatican Council. From 1972, the brothers lived at Vitória, 1,700 km further south. In 1978 they returned to the North East, to Alagoinhas, a medium (...)
14 January 2014
The brincadeira: “Never too late to learn!” “Keeping two hours of childhood a day for the children” is how one volunteer described the “brincadeira”: daily meetings for children led by one of the Taizé brothers living in Alagoinhas in the North East of Brazil. “Brincadeira” means “play and joy”. These afternoon meetings are also a place where the children can talk about their little or big problems at (...)
12 September 2009
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