José de Paiva Netto, writer, journalist, radio broadcaster, composer, and poet was born on March 2, 1941, in Rio de Janeiro/RJ (Brazil). He is the President of the Legion of Good Will (LBV), an effective member of the Brazilian Press Association (ABI) and of the Brazilian International Press Association (ABI-Inter). He is affiliated with the Brazilian Federation of Journalists (FENAJ), the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the Union of Professional Journalists of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the Union of Writers of Rio de Janeiro, the Union of Radio Broadcasters of Rio de Janeiro, and the Brazilian Union of (UBC). He is also a member of the Academy of Letters of Central Brazil.
As head of the Legion of Good Will since 1979 he has expanded the Organization’s Human, Social, and Educational programs, an example being its model schools. They serve for even bigger projects, one of which he has dedicated himself to for a very long time: re-education with Ecumenical Spirituality, established in the Good Will Pedagogy, which proposes a new learning model that allies the Brain and Heart. The Good Will Pedagogy has basically two segments: the Pedagogy of Affection and the Ecumenical Citizen Pedagogy.
Under his administration, the LBV was the first organization of the Brazilian civil society to become associated with the UN’s Department of Public Information (DPI) as from 1994. In 1999, it also became the first Brazilian civil association to obtain general consultative status in the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). In 2000 it became a member of the Conference of NGOs in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations (CONGO) in Vienna, Austria.
On October 21, 1989, Paiva Netto founded the Temple of Good Will (TGW) in Brasília/DF, capital of Brazil, in the presence of more than 50,000 people. The TGW is the center of Unrestricted Ecumenism, which preconizes the conciliation of all creatures and peoples on Earth, and of Total Ecumenism, which proclaims the urgent need for communion between the Humanity on Earth and the Humanity in Heaven. Acclaimed by the people as one of the Seven Wonders of Brasília, it is the most visited monument in the Brazilian capital, receiving more than one million pilgrims every year from Brazil and abroad, according to official information from the State Secretariat of Tourism of the Federal District (SETUR).
Paiva Netto also created the Super Good Will Communication Network (Radio, TV, Internet, and Publications) to propagate Spiritual Citizenship (a concept he advocates).
He is the author of several best-sellers, with more than 4.7 million books sold, and his articles have been published in important newspapers and magazines all over the world, such as: Diário de Notícias, Jornal de Coimbra, Correio da Manhã, Jornal de Notícias, O Primeiro de Janeiro, Notícias de Gaia, Voz do Rio Tinto, Jornal da Maia and O Público (Portugal), Time South, Jeune Afrique, and African News (Africa), Daily Post (international circulation), Clarín (Argentina), Jornada (Bolivia), El Diário Notícias and ABC Color (Paraguay), El Pais (Uruguay), and for International Business and Management, as well as other prominent vehicles in Brazil and abroad.
On this aspect of his personality, North American writer Errol Lincoln Uys observed: “Paiva Netto, although a practical man, still has the soul of a poet.”
According to the definition of the eminent professor, jurist, and treatiser José Cretella Júnior: “He’s an extraordinary stylist and always up to date with what’s new.” In the opinion of the master of professors Moacir Costa Lopes (1927-2010): “He’s a very talented writer.”
On June 29, 2013, he completes 57 years of service in the cause of the LBV.
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