MONROVIA (Reuters) - Liberians packed
churches in the capital Monrovia on
Sunday to seek solace from an
outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus,
defying official warnings to avoid public
gatherings to try to contain an
epidemic that has killed nearly 1,000
people in West Africa.

With its creaking healthcare system
completely overrun, Liberia declared a
state of emergency last week to tackle
the highly contagious and incurable
disease, which has also stricken
neighbouring Sierra Leone, Guinea and
Nigeria.
People still flocked to sing and pray in
churches in the ramshackle ocean-front
capital, many of them comparing Ebola
to the brutal civil war that ravaged the
country between 1989 and 2003,
killing nearly a quarter of a million
people.
"Everyone is so afraid,” said Martee
Jones Seator at Saint Peter's Lutheran
Church. “Ebola is not going to shake
our faith in any way ... because we've
been through difficult times."

The World Health Organization (WHO)
has said that the world's worst
outbreak of Ebola will likely continue for
months, as the region's healthcare
systems struggle to cope, and it has
appealed for funding and emergency
medical staff.
With the disease now in four African
countries - following the death in
Nigeria last month of a U.S. citizen who
arrived from Liberia - the WHO on
Friday classified the epidemic as an
international health emergency.

A Congolese nun who worked
with him died on Saturday in Monrovia.
Outside churches in the capital, plastic
buckets with taps containing
chlorinated water sat on stools,
allowing worshippers to disinfect their
hands. Inside, pastors told their
congregations to follow instructions
from health workers, some of whom
have been attacked by locals terrified
by the disease.

“We are in trouble here. We are in
trouble," Reverend Marcus MacKay,
dressed in a green gown, said before
the altar. "But you know what? There is
no way this devil is going to do its
work!”
Tests on suspected cases in Hong
Kong, Canada and Saudi Arabia in
recent days have all proved negative.

Now my question is; Is that the way forward though I believe God but gathering multitude will increase this deadly virus.

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