A Christian health symposium was held at the end of March 2025, from March 24 to 29, 2025, in Liberia, West Africa, the Secretarial Department of the General Conference at the IMS announced yesterday, on May 12, 2025. Pastor Idel Suárez Moleiro, Director of the Health Department of the General Conference at the IMS, and co-workers of the department, took part in the event.
In addition, this symposium was a valuable opportunity to equip church leaders with knowledge about health and wellness, to strengthen our medical missionary approach, and promote unity among health professionals and church leaders.
Liberia, officially the Republic of Liberia, a country on the West African coast, has a population of around 5.5 million and covers an area of 43,000 square miles (111,369 km2). According to the Wikipedia, between 1822 and the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861, more than 15,000 freed and free-born African Americans, along with 3,198 Afro-Caribbeans, relocated to Liberia. Led by the American-Liberians, Liberia declared independence on July 26, 1847, which the USA did not recognize until February 5, 1962.
Written by Margarit Zhekov
Pastor Idel Suárez Moleiro, performing a Christian baptism in Africa; a photo from the personal archive of Pastor Idel Suárez Moleiro.
