MONROVIA, June 16 -- Senate Pro-Tempore Albert Chie has told a group of clergymen that Senator Edwin Melvin of Snowe Bomi County has requested the Senate not to allow the second reading of his proposed bill seeking religious holidays. As per the Senate's rules, the second reading of legislation will prepare it to be sent to the relevant committee for action.
Heading a delegation of clergymen predominantly of the Christian faith, Bishop Isaac Winker of the Dominion Fellowship asked the Pro-Tempore of the Senate not to endorse any petition requesting them to enact into law a religious holiday whether it is Christian or Islamic.
"We have come on behalf of the church of Liberia to seek your wisdom not to endorse a petition asking for Christia...