I commend President Ali for calling for National Day of Prayers and Fasting

Apr 07, 2022 Letters

Dear Editor,

President Ali is to be commended for calling on all religious bodies to unite under the banner of ‘One Guyana’ for a National Day of Prayers and Fasting on Friday, April 8, 2022. The President’s call comes as the three main religious observances of Ramadan, Lent, and Chaitra Navratri, are happening simultaneously. This rare occurrence offers a meaningful opportunity for Guyanese from all religious persuasions to come together to pray for Guyana. A statement from the President’s office said His Excellency “sees this as an opportunity for the religious bodies and persons from all belief systems to join with each other to promote the spirit of togetherness.”
“I would like all of us to fast together, pray together, and stay together as ‘One Guyana’,” he is reported as saying. The press statement said the National Day of Fasting and Prayers will culminate with a grand interfaith meeting at the National Park in a time of prayer, songs and reflections.
Such a call from our Government sends a good signal for our nation for “righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people” (Proverbs 14:34). The President has done what the apparently now defunct Guyana Evangelical Fellowship, Georgetown Ministers Fellowship, East Berbice Corentyne Ministers Association, and the Guyana Council of Churches should have done. Other similar religious groups such as the Zadok Ministries, Zion Ministers Network, Inter Religious Organization, and Hindu and Muslim bodies should have done so too. These “good men” have been quite silent in the face of many national ills – the giveaway of natural resources that keeps our people impoverished; the decriminalisation of cross dressing; the Government about to go easy on marijuana possession and use (copying the USA); marijuana growers being invited to be hemp growers; foreign embassies promoting recognition of sexual deviance practices; vulgar remarks made by a Minister to a woman MP in parliament and there were no government sanctions or condemnation from these religious groups; too many road accidents; rampant domestic violence and murders; and runaway crimes, etc.
During this Prayer and Fasting, we must pray for our weak, battered Opposition to be strong so the Government can be kept accountable. We must pray that God convict both the PNC and PPP about their treasonous betrayal of the nation in signing and defending the worst oil contract in the world that robs our nation of much needed resources. We must pray for all church leadership in all religions whom have lost their voice and have failed to be the moral conscience of the nation. We must pray for our scaredy-cat lawyers whom we supported at the UWI and Council of Legal Education who now lack moral courage to support the fight for a renegotiated oil contract. We must pray for those in the business sector who care about their own selfish financial interests and profits but pay low wages to poor workers. Let’s pray for the nation’s most vulnerable populations – rice and other farmers, fishermen, housewives, pensioners, sugar workers, small businesses, market vendors, retail sales people, civil servants, youths, students, single parents, nurses, policemen, security guards, those depending on public assistance and other at-risk populations. Let’s pray that we can be “One Guyana” where both the PNC and PPP confess their sins and join together to fight a common enemy that wants to bully us and appropriate the larger share of our oil income and keeping us destitute forever. Let’s also pray for a Third Force to emerge if the PNC and PPP fail to work together to renegotiate the worst oil contract in the world. Wake up Guyana, and stay awake!

Sincerely,
Dr. Jerry Jailall

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