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“In the face of the potent destructive forces unleashed leading to destitution on citizens within the Mano River Basin Countries of West Africa, respecting the earth and building sustainable community calls the church to live out spiritual values such as justice, peace, love, faith and hope in communities”, said Cllr. Gloria Musu Scott.
Cllr. Gloria Musu Scott speaking on a panel at the Third Edition of the Archbishop Michael K. Francis Intellectual Discourse on Social Justice and Peace held in Brewerville City, Montserrado County, Liberia. She disserted the relationship between democracy and sustainability, and what churches should do to put into action the agreements and conventions their government has signed in our society. To make a sustainable society, there must be a movement away from agreements and conventions into contracts that oblige churches and church-related institutions to participate in actions favorable for sustainability. Churches and Christian communities can indeed contribute to the formulation and enforcement of democratic contracts. She calls on faith communities not to substitute democratic values through spiritualization. The sense of political equality must be connected to a sense of justice. She stressed that civic pride is only possible when citizens cooperate to produce social justice. And this is the will of God, she concludes.
Whilst the citizens of a just social contract want to be for themselves, they can never be only for themselves, based on Christian Principles, says, Rev. Dr. Tolbert Thomas Jallah, Jr., Regional Executive Director, Faith and Justice Network of the Mano River Basin Countries. He told the gathering of distinguished church leaders that FJN builds upon the idea that democracy as a political system must exist for power to be distributed equally, and serve as models for a social contract for justice. The Faith and Justice Network has a strong belief that a well–functioning social contract will promote the common interests of all citizens, Rev. Dr. Jallah concluded in his welcome statement.
