Africa-Press – Liberia. Monrovia, December 9, 2025: The civil society organization Solidarity Trust for A New Day (STAND) has issued a scathing response to the Liberia Council of Churches (LCC).
STAND stated that the Council has finally “torn off its last veil of credibility.” Its demand to cancel the December 17 peaceful protest, the organization said, confirms what Liberians already know: a once-sacred institution is now “reduced to a compromised fraternity of corrupt men who have traded principle for privilege, truth for token, and God for gold.”
The statement continued: “Instead of standing with the underprivileged, the Council now wraps its hands around the Executive Mansion. Instead of speaking truth to power, it has shamelessly demoted itself to a loudspeaker for a corrupt regime. While the hungry starve, the brutalized bleed, the violated cry out, and the forgotten faint, this Council rushes to sit at the tables of political gluttons.”
Adding further condemnation, STAND said: “Nothing about this resembles moral leadership. It is the posture of a spiritually bankrupt institution; one drunk on the intoxicating fumes of state power and blinded by the glittering bribes and fat offerings that keep its mouth shut and its conscience dead.”
When the Ministry of Justice invited STAND to a “so-called security meeting” alongside the Council, the organization refused, explaining: “We do not legitimize institutions that have abandoned their calling. This Council lost its moral voice the day it applauded the illegal removal of the Speaker and remained silent as immorality and lawlessness flooded the nation. Yesterday’s statement merely seals their descent into full spiritual compromise.”
STAND condemned the Council’s reasoning that Liberians should not protest because Christmas is near, calling it the theology of cowards. A church afraid of truth is no church at all. A clergy that bends the gospel to please a president is not serving Christ; it is serving its own appetite.
The statement continued: “When religious leaders choose silver over sincerity, envelopes over ethics, and political access over prophetic duty, they have surrendered their altar, their conscience, and their ministry to satanic forces that oppose justice.”
STAND concluded, saying, “This Council has no moral standing to advise, rebuke, or restrain the Liberian people. A body that stays silent while corruption metastasizes, while police brutalize citizens, while powerful men prey on young girls, and while the nation sinks into hardship, such a body cannot claim to speak for God. It speaks only for the hands that feed it.”
A statement issued on December 8, 2025, under the signature of Chairman and Lead Advocate Mulbah K. Morlu Jr., STAND delivered a strong call to action: “We urge the media and the nation: do not be distracted by the noise of a compromised clergy. The December 17 protest is constitutional, legitimate, and unstoppable.”
He also stated, “No corrupted pulpit, no politically purchased statement, no fearful sermon crafted to please power will deter the will of the people. On December 17, the masses will rise. And no council (especially one that behaves like a moral impostor) will stand in their way.
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