Jonas Abib

The case reached the Federal Supreme Court, which ruled in respect of it in 2016, in the case of an Ordinary Appeal in Habeas Corpus. The rapporteur of the case, Minister Luiz Edson Fachin, first explained that "the discriminatory criminal discourse only materializes after three indispensable steps have been taken: one of cognitive character, attesting to the inequality between groups and or individuals, another of value bias, in which is based on a supposed relationship of superiority between them and, finally, a third, in which the agent, from the previous stages, assumes legitimate the domination, exploitation, enslavement, elimination, suppression or reduction of fundamental rights of the different that comprises inferior".

In 2008, the Canção Nova Community received the Pontifical Recognition of the Church, which attests that it is, from then on, an International Association of Faithfuls.

On 9 October 2007, Jonas Abib received the title of Monsignor. Pope Benedict XVI gave the priest the title given to priests who stand out for relevant services rendered to the Church and to the faithful in their dioceses. The official request was made by the Bishop of the Diocese of Lorena, Bishop Benedito Beni dos Santos. The investiture ceremony took place eight days later, at Cachoeira Paulista, at the Canção Nova headquarters.

Jonas Abib is the author of the book Sim, Sim, Não, Não! – Reflexos de Cura e Libertação, which reached its 85th edition in 2007. In 2008, a controversy began about the allegedly prejudiced content with which Jonas Abib referred to other religions, such as spiritism, in addition to those religions of African origin, such as Umbanda and Candomblé. In 2008, the Bahia state court ordered the collection of the publication in the State. The Bahian prosecutor, in turn, accused Abib of inciting religious discrimination (article 20, Law 7,716 / 1989).

In 2004, along with the Canção Nova Community, inaugurated the Center of Evangelization Don João Hipólito de Moraes, a place for more than 80 thousand people.

In the year of 2002, Jonas Abib celebrated the 25 years of the Canção Nova. Also in 2002, he met with Pope John Paul II.

From 1989, Comunidade Canção Nova began to work with a TV retransmitter, Canção Nova by TVE of Rio de Janeiro.

In 1980, Canção Nova began to work in the media with Radio Canção Nova, in the municipality of Cachoeira Paulista, acting in the old frequency of Radio Bandeirantes, now with power that covers the whole of Brazil.

In 1978, Jonas Abib, together with a small group of young people, founded the Canção Nova Community, whose mission is to train new men for a new world, to bring personal experience to the person of Jesus Christ through events and by the media.

After completing this stage, he studied theology in São Paulo at the Pio XI Salesian Theological Institute in Alto da Lapa, and was ordained a Salesian priest on 8 December 1964, having chosen the following motto: "Made all for all". Abib soon after being ordained as a priest began in São Paulo to work with young people teaching at the Faculty of Sciences and Letters of Lorena/SP and promoting meetings and retreats, mainly in the Paraíba Valley region of São Paulo. In 1971, Jonas Abib had an experience of prayer in a retreat promoted by the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, marking his life and ministry, becoming, from the beginning, one of the main leaders of this ecclesial movement. His life is also marked by music. He is a composer of several songs and is also a Catholic singer, being one of the pioneers of popular Catholic music in Brazil.

Monsignor Jonas Abib, SDB (21 December 1936 – 12 December 2022) was a Brazilian Catholic priest. He was the founder and leader of the Canção Nova Community.