President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is once more soliciting the intervention of religious leaders in Liberia’s ongoing search for lasting peace and stability. The country is recovering from a brutal civil war that lasted 14 consecutive years. An estimated 250,000 lives were destroyed. Thousands of Liberians were also displaced internally or dispersed across the various sub-regional [West African] countries as refugees.
Earlier this week, the President issued a Proclamation in which she called on religious leaders (priests, imams, bishops, etc.) to gather in their various places of worship across the country to give thanks and praises to Almighty God. She would also appreciate it were these religious gurus to pray for God’s blessings and mercies to continually rest upon Liberia and Liberians.
President Johnson Sirleaf wants glory given to God for His continual protection and blessings in time of peace, disaster and other natural phenomena which have sustained Liberia politically, socially and economically over the years.
By Proclamation, this Thursday, November 7, 2013, has been declared as National Thanksgiving Day to be observed throughout the Republic of Liberia as a national holiday, a Foreign Ministry news release, issued in Monrovia on Tuesday, has disclosed.
According to the Liberian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Proclamation is in consonance with an Act of the National Legislature which was enacted in 1883, declaring the first Thursday in the month of November of each year as National Thanksgiving Day.
The Proclamation notes that “it is befitting that a day has been set aside for the Nation and its People to give thanks and adoration to the Lord for His dispensation of grace, mercy and providence for the perseverance of the lives of the Liberian People” --- recalling that Liberians have always given thanks and praises to the Almighty God for His mercies showered upon their country.
Earlier this week, the President issued a Proclamation in which she called on religious leaders (priests, imams, bishops, etc.) to gather in their various places of worship across the country to give thanks and praises to Almighty God. She would also appreciate it were these religious gurus to pray for God’s blessings and mercies to continually rest upon Liberia and Liberians.
President Johnson Sirleaf wants glory given to God for His continual protection and blessings in time of peace, disaster and other natural phenomena which have sustained Liberia politically, socially and economically over the years.
By Proclamation, this Thursday, November 7, 2013, has been declared as National Thanksgiving Day to be observed throughout the Republic of Liberia as a national holiday, a Foreign Ministry news release, issued in Monrovia on Tuesday, has disclosed.
According to the Liberian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Proclamation is in consonance with an Act of the National Legislature which was enacted in 1883, declaring the first Thursday in the month of November of each year as National Thanksgiving Day.
The Proclamation notes that “it is befitting that a day has been set aside for the Nation and its People to give thanks and adoration to the Lord for His dispensation of grace, mercy and providence for the perseverance of the lives of the Liberian People” --- recalling that Liberians have always given thanks and praises to the Almighty God for His mercies showered upon their country.
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