Monrovia, 16 April, 2025 / 4:09 pm (ACI Africa).
A Catholic missionary Priest ministering in Liberia is helping patients in “extreme poverty”, including people with disabilities to access medical services free of charge.
Agenzia Fides, the information service of Propaganda Fide, has reported that for some years now, the Catholic Parish of S.t John Vianney in Foya, a remote strip of land near the Liberian border with Sierra Leone, with the formation of a charitable group, has been supporting the medical expenses of those who are unable to do so, especially the disabled,
The Parish Priest, Fr. Lorenzo Snider, has been taking care of the community for some years and has launched a project that provides, among other things, medical visits and basic medicines for people with physical disabilities or in extreme poverty.
In a Monday, April14 report by Agenzia Fides, the member of the Society of African Missions (SMA) said the outreach project started with treatment for malaria, to infections, and to prenatal visits.
“As we started to help, new scenarios opened up,” Fr. Snider says, and continues, “People with epileptic seizures, unable to pay for their therapy of 20 cents a day, then malnourished children, due to the death of the mother because of post-natal problems or other situations.”
