Brazilian Zoroastrians

زرتشيتان برزيل 

Thanks to Onaldo Alves Pereira for the photos

Saturday evening meeting in Goiânia.

Some of Paraْna hamdins

Report from Onaldo - 18th Feb 2005

We just got back from a trip to the South region of Brazil . We participated in the V World Social Forum in the city of Porto Alegre where we had a stand and proffered conferences on the Good Religion. In an event attended by more then 150 thousand people from over one hundred countries we feared that our subject would go unnoticed, but to our great surprise and joy we could hardly meet the demand and our tent was always overflowing during our conferences.

We took nine people from our Comunidade Asha in Goiânia to help during the five days of event and we could hardly attend all the requests for talks, interviews and literature. We distributed 5 thousand pamphlets in Spanish, had hundreds of people asking for literature in different languages and shared over 30 thousand leaflets in Portuguese on the Gathic message. Besides we sold hundreds of our Gathas in Portuguese.

Some Kurds visited our stand and expressed a joyful surprise to find the Zarathushtrian religion in Brazil .

We traveled almost five thousand kilometers visiting people in different cities, handing out leaflets and donating Gathas samples to the local libraries.

Back to Goiânia we suffer with the meager resources to be able to keep in touch and develop all the contacts.

Yesterday we were in Paraúna getting to know the work Lorenzo and some of our other members are doing with children.  After school they help the kids with their homework and tech them arts, theater and dance. Last afternoon they were working with 83 boys and girls.

We need your prayers and help to keep on the good work. Brazil is an immense and fertile field for the Good Religion of Zarathushtra. Also, a place from where this message can spread to all of South America and Portugal .

Ushta!           Onaldo Alves Pereira,
http://www.zoroastrismo.org