AFRICA/LIBERIA - Missionaries: pastoral activities resumed "to guarantee mass for even the most remote communities"

Foya (Agenzia Fides) - "In Liberia we are still in 'Phase 1' even if we have resumed our pastoral activities, with all the necessary precautions", writes to Agenzia Fides Father Lorenzo Snider, priest of the Society for African Missions and missionary in Liberia. "In these days we are waiting for President Weah to comunicate whether the state of emergency will be extended. Here in Foya, the virus is spreading, damaging above all the already precarious health facilities and we fear that soon some of the staff of our center will be placed in quarantine", says the priest, who is a parish priest in Foya.
"In order to start pastoral activities - he says - we are resuming contacts with village communities and relaunching some activities, in particular helping the most remote people. Communities that have not been able to receive the sacraments at Easter are receiving them now".
Also Fr. Walter Maccalli who, from the parish of St John Vianney, writes to Fides: "we are moving very slowly from 'Phase 1' to 'Phase 2'. We have been able to resume visits to the Christians in some villages, to give First Communion to a group of young people from the Christian community of Kolahun".
"Furthermore, due to the lack of priests, in these difficult times, the Bishop of the diocese of Gbarnga, Mgr. Anthony Fallah Borwah, has entrusted us with the task of visiting also 4 other parishes, Voinjema, Kolahun, Zorzor and Vahun, to whom we assure mass once a month, when possible", concludes Fr. Walter Maccalli
The Missionary Team of the SMA Fathers in Liberia is resident in the parish of St. John Vianney in Foya. (LS-WM/AP) (Agenzia Fides, 24/07/2020)

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