The “General Jorge Edgar Leal Observatory for Argentine Sovereignty,” a small but active policy group recently founded by Argentine friends of the Schiller Institute, has endorsed Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche’s call for Pope Leo XIV to mobilize religious leaders of all faiths to sound a unified call for peace. They urge all popular organizations, the nations of the Global South, to join religious leaders in this cry.
“At this decisive hour, we join the call issued by Helga Zepp-LaRouche of the Schiller Institute to His Holiness Pope Leo XIV. As she stated in her recent open letter, we face the risk of falling into an ‘irreparable abyss’ if we do not halt this escalation, which threatens to turn into a global nuclear war. Therefore, we endorse her proposal to convene, in the spirit of the Council of Florence and the unity promoted by Nicholas of Cusa, all the religious authorities of the world—along with people of good faith, believers and non-believers alike—to raise a single voice in defense of peace,” the Observatory writes in their own “Call For Peace and Against War in the Persian Gulf,” issued on March 24, which they sent to every Argentine Catholic Bishop.
“We firmly believe that, just as the bells of all churches, the adhan of the mosques, and the shofar of the synagogues can ring in unison to halt the madness of war, so too must organizations for sovereignty, popular movements, and the nations of the Global South unite in a common front. The unity of the Churches of the East and West, driven by the highest religious authority, can awaken global consciousness and show that God’s will—whatever name each people may give it—is life and not death, peace and not destruction.”
The Observatory condemns the war in the Persian Gulf, where “foreign powers, driven by geostrategic interests that have nothing to do with the peoples of the region, are once again tightening the strings of a conflict whose consequences will be paid for, once again, with innocent blood, forced displacement, and the destruction of national sovereignties….
