Ecumenism

Seven Faces that Reveal God

Thirty-two years ago, on October 21, I had the honor of inaugurating the Temple of Good Will (TGW) in Brasília (Brazil), with the indispensable help of the people.

Since its opening, the TGW is the most visited place in the country's capital, according to official data from Brasília’s...

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Globalization and pluralism

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Ecumenism and hard work

To join forces aimed at the solution of social problems Under the lemma "Education and Culture, Health and Work with Spirituality", the Legion of Good Will is renowned for the contribution given to the Ecumenism field of action. In the 50’s, the famous Italian thinker, Pietro Ubaldi (1886-1972),...
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The Beginnings of the LGW

I received from the Solidary Team of the Legion of Good Will of Europe a rare copy of the newspaper O Cristão [The Christian], dated January 31, 1950. It is a commemorative edition of the 58th anniversary of this official organ of the Union of the Congregational and Christian Evangelical Churches...
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Religion Does Not Rhyme With Intolerance

Questioned by a reader in the Folha de S.Paulo newspaper in the 80’s, I pondered that I fail to see Religion as an arena where many beliefs meet to settle their points of view, in their struggle to defend their principles or God, who is Love to begin with and who cannot approve manifestations of...
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"It’s Time to Begin"

On January 6, 1948 (Three Kings Day), the seed of the Legion of Good Will was planted. It was officially founded on January 1, 1950. Journalist and radio broadcaster Alziro Zarur (1914-1979), at the time one of the greatest names in Brazilian radio, when attending a spiritual...
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What’s of Interest

In recognition of the Paris Declaration, which was signed on November 12, 1995, the United Nations instituted November 16 as the “International Day for Tolerance”. The date was chosen to pay tribute to the signing of UNESCO’s constitution in 1945. Our tribute also to the National Black Awareness...
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Manifest of Good Will (I)

I received a letter from the reader Edson Rodrigues de Freitas, who lives in Rio de Janeiro city, asking me to have the Manifest of Good Will published, which words I addressed, during the launching of the Fundamental Stone of the World Parliament of Ecumenical Fraternity, on October 21, 1991, in...
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Manifest of Good Will (II)

There is no good regime while Man is bad (...) This is the great moment of the religious, political, entrepreneurial, syndicate and community leaderships getting united for the goodness of this extraordinary World, which has been watching so many frontiers fall, one after another. But may this...
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Manifest of Good Will (III)

Among the nations Brazil has been distinguished as privileged, in spite of the negativism (or even nihilism) of some people. No other one, amidst the five largest in the world, can present such balanced relationship among dimensions, Nature resources, population, cultural homogeneity and ethnical...
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Miscegenation in the World Is Inevitable

The inevitable human miscegenation is a fact of global proportions. Several experts state that the concept of a pure race is increasingly diminishing in the world. An example of this comes from the United States that has created an item in its census to include people of a mixed race, who represent...
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