In the last 28 years, Liberia has experienced an epidemic of moral, social, spiritual, economic and political proportion that can be compared to no other period in the history of Africa’s Second Oldest Independent Nation.

In 1979 the famous Rice Riot paralyzed the economy of Liberia and led to massive social and political upheavals throughout the country.

In 1980 the First Military Coup occurred in Liberia and scores of top ranging Liberian Government including President William R. Tolbert were executed. The country’s power was taken over by the military with 17 enlisted men as leaders of Liberia. The country was plunged into unbearable economic disaster, military conflicts, political instability and social upheaval from the period covering 1980 to 1990. At the time of the coup, many Liberians from the Tribal Majority support the military because they view the takeover as liberation from the control of the privileged minority that have ruled Liberia since 1847 with insincerity, exclusivity, narrow-mindedness and political shortsightedness. The support for the military was short lived as the government became increasingly barbaric to families of the deposed ruling class and it turned its viciousness on the very people it has promised to liberate.

In 1990 a group of political renegades, tribal misguided people and a population anxious to see the end of military dictatorship plunged Liberia into a vicious Civil War. The blood war lasted for about 15 years and claimed the lives of more than 250,000 0f Liberia’s 3 million people. The vast majority of the population was displaced. Education, medical, religious, civic and all other institutions came to a virtual standstill and eroded into the kind of decline that have placed the nation into a similarly irreparable state. Countless Liberians were left as amputees, scores of babies and children live at the mercy of religious and social institutions because their parents were killed, numbers of parents and children were buried alive and the country remains in devastation awaiting the support and goodwill of foreign governments, international organizations, the United Nations and the religious institutions in far away places such as the United States.