Overview

• The organization confirmed his death and said he had been hospitalized at Hospital Pró-Cardíaco in Botafogo, with the cause not disclosed.
• The tribute will be open to the public in São Paulo on October 8, with the venue to be announced.
• He led the Legião da Boa Vontade for decades, expanding social assistance, education, and communications programs and sustaining more than 30 years of consultative relations with the United Nations.
• He developed the educational approaches known as the Pedagogy of Affection and the Pedagogy of the Ecumenical Citizen and created the World Forum Spirit and Science in 2000.
• He founded the Temple of Good Will in Brasília in 1989 and authored works translated into more than 25 languages with over 10 million copies sold, receiving honors such as the Order of Rio Branco and the Order of Aeronautical Merit.