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GENEVA, July 10, 2015 /Standard Newswire/ -- Prayers and action undertaken by the Liberian Council of Churches (LCC) during the Ebola outbreak of 2014-2015 will be honoured by the Liberian government with distinction of "Commander, Order of the Star of Africa."
The distinction will be conferred upon the LCC in an official ceremony on 17 July.
In a congratulatory message, the World Council of Churches (WCC) acting general secretary Georges Lemopoulos called the Liberian churches' efforts "a sign of hope in the midst of the Ebola crisis."
The LCC, which includes member churches of the WCC in Liberia, has been actively engaged in providing preventive awareness, contact tracing, food and material relief, medical supplies including personal protective gear to the affected communities during the Ebola crisis. A number of LCC affiliated partners ran health centres that provided immediate medical relief aid to Ebola victims.
"We are very aware of your advocacy, your coordination of member churches, your practical efforts and your witness of prayer during this deeply traumatic time for your country. We are proud to be a partner through accompaniment and celebrate this distinction being given to you," said Lemopoulos in his letter addressed to Rev. Dr Kortu K. Brown, acting president of the LCC.
Lemopoulos added, "Your witness in this crisis has been an inspiration to the ecumenical movement beyond your country, a testimony to what can be accomplished as churches and ecumenical organizations working together in a time of need to serve those who suffer and are in fear."
WCC acting general secretary's congratulatory letter
WCC member churches in Liberia
The World Council of Churches promotes Christian unity in faith, witness and service for a just and peaceful world. An ecumenical fellowship of churches founded in 1948, today the WCC brings together 345 Protestant, Orthodox, Anglican and other churches representing more than 550 million Christians in over 120 countries, and works cooperatively with the Roman Catholic Church. The WCC general secretary is the Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, from the [Lutheran] Church of Norway.
