The President of the Republic of Liberia, Her Excellency, Mrs Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has by Proclamation declared Thursday, November 7, 2013 as National Thanksgiving Day to be observed throughout the Republic as a National Holiday.

A Foreign Ministry release quotes the Presidential Proclamation as calling on all Liberians and Foreign Residents, Priests, Imams, Bishops, Pastors, Clergies and all religious organizations to gather in their various places of worship across the Nation to give thanks and praises to the Almighty God that His blessings and mercies may continuously rest upon the Nation and its People.

The Proclamation is in consonance with an Act of the National Legislature which was enacted in 1883, declaring the first Thursday in the month of November of each year to be known as National Thanksgiving Day.

According to the Proclamation, it is befitting that a day has been set aside for the Nation and its People to give thanks and adoration to the Lord for this dispensation of grace, mercy and providence for the perseverance of the lives of the Liberian People.

The Proclamation further recalled that the People of Liberia have always given thanks and praises to the Almighty God for his mercies showered upon the Nation and having more reason at this time to “glorify the Great Arbiter of human event in a special way for His grace”.  

The release also stated that God’s continuous protection and blessings in time of peace, disaster and other natural phenomena have sustained Liberia politically, socially and economically over the year.