Alziro Abraão Elias David Zarur was born, paradoxically, on a day of peace in a year of war, when men of the entire world were already facing one of the most tragic wars of History: December 25, 1914, in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It was not by chance that he unchained, during all his life, a pacific “war” in favor of Humanity. Son of Arab immigrants - Ássima and Elias Zarur -, he defended the thesis that “the Human Being was created in such a way that He/She can only be happy doing Good”.

Zarur studied in the Faculdade Nacional de Direito (National Law School), but he preferred to be a doctor in Gospel and Apocalipse, which for him were the most important works of the world. If he had gathered what he wrote in newspapers and magazines since 1930, without counting the thousands of offhand speeches, it would be possible to make more than 50 books on radio and television, politics and science, literature and religion.

In 1948, he excused himself from the social circles during about one year, living a period of “spiritual exile”, to plan, in details, the work that he would later come to found.

He observed that the radio had not yet made an exclusively dedicated program to the sick. That was how he created, on March 4, 1949, the Hour of Good Will, at the Radio Globo. The program brought a word of courage to the sick of the body and of the Soul.

At the time, he was criticized by people that worked in the radio business who did not believe that he, at the age of 33, would leave his success in the radio to dedicate himself to ecumenical religiosity. But Zarur went on and, in a modest room at Acre Street, in Rio de Janeiro/RJ, Brazil, elaborated, alone, the statutes of the organization that, later, would become one of the biggest in the world. 
This way, on January 1, 1950, he founded the Legion of Good Will, with the mission to contribute for the solidary development through actions in the social, educational, cultural and philosophical areas.

With the establishment of the LGW, Zarur initiated the Cruzade of Brotherly Religions, in favor of the union of the beliefs, in the search for Peace. His concern in respecting the different religions was recognized by the Vatican. Zarur received from the Apostolic Messenger Dom Sebastião Baggio the Medal of Pope Paul VI, “for services rendered to the cause of Ecumenism”.

His words sensitized thousands of Brazilians who paid close attention to his pioneer preaching. He spoke of Unrestricted Ecumenism and proclaimed Jesus’ New Commandment — Love one another as I have loved you —, explaining: “Not to love with the love of men, always selfish and sectarian, but to love with the Love of Jesus”.

Alziro Zarur passed away on October 21, 1979, in the city of Rio de Janeiro/RJ, Brazil.