{"id":1035241,"date":"2026-05-06T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"trans-27947-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infoans.news\/en\/trans-27947-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil \u2013 Father Roger Luis da Silva elected as the new president of the Can\u00e7\u00e3o Nova Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new president succeeds Father Wagner Ferreira, who was elected in 2023 following the death of the founder of the Can&ccedil;&atilde;o Nova Community, Monsignor Jonas Abib (on 12 December 2022). He is, therefore, the second successor to lead the Association.<\/p>\n<p>Father Roger Luis da Silva is originally from Itaperuna, RJ. A member of the Can&ccedil;&atilde;o Nova Community since 2000, he has served in the missions of Cachoeira Paulista, S&atilde;o Paulo; Nova Esperan&ccedil;a, Paran&aacute;; Palmas, Tocantins; and Bras&iacute;lia, Federal District. Among the roles he has held within the Community are: formator at the Community House, rector of the Seminary, head of Missions, TVCN, and councillor in charge of the clergy.<\/p>\n<p>Father Roger holds degrees in Philosophy and Theology. He was ordained on 12 December 2006 and is expected to remain in the post of president until 2031.<\/p>\n<p>During the assembly, the other members of the new Can&ccedil;&atilde;o Nova Community council were also appointed. See below:<\/p>\n<p>&ndash; Vice-president: Father Donizete Heleno Ferreira<\/p>\n<p>&ndash; General Formator: Father Clovis Andrade de Melo<\/p>\n<p>&ndash; General Secretary: Maria Marta Teixeira<\/p>\n<p>&ndash; General Treasurer: Rosana Aparecida Palandi Silva<\/p>\n<p>&ndash; Councillor in charge of the clergy: Father Alexsandro de Lima Freitas<\/p>\n<p>&ndash; Councillor in charge of married couples: Maria Salette Ferreira Ribeiro<\/p>\n<p>&ndash; Councillor in charge of celibates: Ver&aacute; L&uacute;cia Reis<\/p>\n<p>&ndash; General Councillors: 1st &ndash; Flaviana Teixeira Gomes \/ 2nd Jo&atilde;o Luiz de Oliveira<\/p>\n<p><strong>Can&ccedil;&atilde;o Nova<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Founded in 1978 by Monsignor Jonas Abib, the Can&ccedil;&atilde;o Nova Community is a Catholic charismatic community whose mission is to evangelise through the media, retreats, gatherings and social works. In 2008, the Community received Pontifical Recognition and, in 2009, joined the Salesian Family.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>By Danusa Rego<br \/><\/em><em>Can&ccedil;&atilde;o Nova<\/em><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new president succeeds Father Wagner Ferreira, who was elected in 2023 following the death of the founder of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2027947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1035241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-america-south-cone","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infoans.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infoans.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infoans.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infoans.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infoans.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1035241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infoans.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infoans.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2027947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infoans.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infoans.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infoans.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}