LIBERIA
AllAfrica
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The Episcopal Church of Liberia has indefinitely suspended its priest assigned in Grand Kru County in connection with the alleged raping of a 10-year-old girl in the county.
In a release issued last evening from the Church, Archbishop Jonathan B.B. Hart said the church is shocked and dismayed about news report concerning the involvement of its priest in “this barbaric and heinous act.”
Bishop Hart, who is also Archbishop of the International Province of West Africa, explained that the priest will remain suspended from all functions of the Episcopal Church of Liberia until he can exonerate himself in a court of law.
He keeping with Canon XXIX, Bishop Hart constituted ‘The Ecclesiastical Court’ made up of three priests of the Episcopal Diocese to further investigate the allegation levied against the priest.
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