Churches across Liberia resumed their regular worship services on Sunday, May 17, more than one month after the government banned social gathering ordering all Churches, Mosques and worship centers closed.
The Remedy Movement International, one of Liberia's growing charismatic churches here resumed worship on Sunday with a complete social distancing, suspending the roles of auxiliary groups in the church to avoid social contact and maintain social distancing.
The ban, which was intended to halt the spread of the coronavirus here and ensure social distancing was lifted by President George Weah on Friday, May 8
President Weah on Friday, May 8 proposed that Churches, Mosques and worship centers consider operating 25 percent of their regular worship-hour occupancy for each service beginning Sunday, May 17, with Muslims permitted to begin operating in their Mosques on May 15.
The Liberian Catholic Archbishop Most Rev. Lewis Zeigler in a statement asked all Parish Priests and Priests in charge of parishes in the Archdiocese of Monrovia to delay the opening of their churches for regular church activities till the end of May 2020, in the wake of daily increase of coronavirus cases here.
Meanwhile, on Saturday May 16, the eve of churches resumption, Liberia reported 226 confirmed coronavirus cases.
