Solidarity

Solidarity is not Utopia

When history teacher Iramara Fluminhan entered her classroom a few days ago she was surprised by her students with an unforgettable gesture of love and solidarity.

The students are in the 8th grade and attend the Good Will Educational Complex in São Paulo, Brazil, and their noble purpose...

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The Legion of Good Will and the Ideology of the Good Samaritan

Solidarity: Reason and Heart of the Economy

Never Retire From Life

Rescuing One’s Citizenship

Reflecting, Praying, and Acting in Solidarity

Since the early hours of Monday, February 6th, we have all been moved by the consequences of the earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale, whose epicenter was the city of Kahramanmaras, in southwestern Turkey, close to the border with Syria, and which caused huge destruction in both countries...
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The Good Sowing

  “Store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” Jesus (Matthew 6:20 and 21) How good it is to sow Goodness! The results always...
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Solidarity: Reason and Heart of the Economy

The 61st session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), organized by the United Nations (UN), brings to the debate an important topic given the many challenges that Humanity is facing: “Women’s Economic Empowerment in the Changing World of Work.” I would first like to greet all the...
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Prayer, Unity, and Hope

The world is once again united in demonstrations of faith and fraternity at a time of great pain. Moving gestures of affection and support from various parts of our planet marked November 29, 2016, when the aircraft taking the Chapecoense Soccer Association delegation, including players, Brazilian...
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Never Retire From Life

In a tribute to all our older Brothers and Sisters I present to you extracts from my editorial from the 24th edition of the magazine Revista LBV (Jan/Feb 1992), which had been published previously in the 1980s by the Folha de S.Paulo newspaper. We live in a time of constant...
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The Legion of Good Will and the Ideology of the Good Samaritan

Dear Friends and Brothers, on January 1, 1950, on World Day of Peace, the Legion of Good Will (LGW) appeared on Earth under the inspiration and the auspices of the words and examples of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Its main foundation is contained in the Gospel-Apocalypse of the...
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A Citizen called Solidarity*

On August 9, 1997, Betinho, from Bocaiúva, Minas Gerais state, returned to the Spiritual World. I believe that one of the main contributions of the late sociologist was the mobilization of Solidarity throughout Brazil. Reason why he founded the IBASE (Brazilian Institute of Social and Economic...
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Francis

As an acknowledged example of humanity, we greet the arrival of Pope Francis in Brazil in brotherly fashion. He has come for World Youth Day (Rio 2013). Young people are the future in the present! When he was elected Bishop of Rome, as he likes to be called in his noble modesty, Argentinian...
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Rescuing One’s Citizenship

Originating from the Legion of Good Will’s permanent campaign against hunger and in favor of citizenship, which was launched by Alziro Zarur*1 (1914-1979) at the end of the 1940s with the popular “Soup for the Poor” initiative, the LGW’s socio-educational program Charity Round...
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