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Global Ekklesia turns 3 today, Aniv. To be celebrated late Oct. 1st ever in Liberia-West Africa

James Fasuekoi

Today marks exactly three years since we appeared on the newsstand. Since then, we’ve continued to publish free of charge without requesting financial aid from any source, despite extensive research plus material costs involved in producing a quality Christian News Magazine such as ours. Meantime, as part of activities for this year’s anniversary celebration, Global Ekklesia will soon exhibit civil war memorabilia belonging to its Publisher James Kokulo Fasuekoi. Also, reserved copies of the author’s ‘now hard-to-find’ civil war book will sell relatively for a low price-all part of a small-fund-raising attempt to maintain, run the Christian website. Thanks to God, and to our many readers!   

By Our Staff Writer

Global Ekklesia Editor & Publisher James Fasuekoi (L) vows to take his publication to every village, town and city in the republic of Liberia and beyond. In this picture, he’s surrounded by kids in the Bassa Village of Behnnewein along Buchanan Highway.

Exactly three years today the Global Ekklesia Christian News Magazine published her first online edition from the Western Minnesota sleepy town of Howard Lake, announcing itself to the world. Since then, the Ekklesia has published over 138 editions free of charge, for our reading audiences worldwide. 

Divinely inspired by the publisher’s own family tragic story, amid the height of the COVID-19 epidemic, which killed millions worldwide including Americans, former Liberian Civil War journalist, Fasuekoi felt the Calling of the LORD through the Holy Spirit and began publishing the weekly Gospel magazine, keeping faith in God, with no clue how he would keep the website running. 

Explorer & former AP war correspondent James Kokulo Fasuekoi is pictured on St. Paul River Bridge which separates Lofa and Bong, during his recent cross-country journey that took his Gospel News crew into the Republic of Guinea.

Global Ekklesia is an independent non-partisan media with the sole purpose of spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ throughout the entire world in such an uncompromising style meant to help individuals personally understand Biblical truths and change their live for better in the LORD. 

For this year’s upcoming celebration, the magazine’s management has decided to push the publication’s 3rd anniversary celebration date to October 25th in Monrovia, Liberia. Invitations are expected to arrive shortly as early as this week to be sent out to guests expected to attend the event. 

As part of its 3rd anniversary activities, the Ekklesia plans to put on public exhibition, Civil War Memorabilia among which are photographic equipment, obsolete Associated Press Digital cameras, photo-scanner and transmitter machine, as well as other accessories, belonging to Editor Fasuekoi, dating back to Dec. 24, 1989-1999.

Journalist Fasuekoi, as a young man covered the deadly 1st Liberian Civil War, while embedded with more than seven warring factions. After the war ended 1996-97 and Taylor became president, he began covering the Kamajors-RUF bush war in neighboring Sierra Leone before being forced to flee his native Liberia. For the first time he will be telling part of his story and putting his civil war relics on public exhibition.

Ekklesia’s editor is also expected to give out few remaining copies of his “hard-to-find” published book on the Liberian Civil War at a relatively reasonable price, an exercise intended to raise small funding, mainly to underwrite the cost for maintaining the publication’s website annually.      

An award-winning reporter-photographer, Fasuekoi is an experienced newspaper journalist who worked previously worked for most of Liberia’s leading independent dailies before civil war broke out in Dec.1989.

For a decade (1990-1999) he worked as freelance war correspondent, covering civil wars and political upheavals in the West African region for national and foreign news media, among them, The Inquirer of Liberia, and The Associated Press of New York, USA. He single-handedly ran Global Ekklesia from its inception till now.

This Digital EOS-1 Canon Camera, given to Mr. Fasuekoi by The Associated Press was among more than a dozen war relics recently found in his Liberia storage in Liberia-exactly 28 years after the first civil war ended and will now form part of his upcoming exhibition of his war memorabilia in Monrovia, Liberia.

Fasuekoi holds an AA in Biblical Theology and the equivalent of a degree in Prints/Broadcast Journalism and Communications.

As editor for US-based Continental AfricaPaper, he was awarded the Bush Foundation Fellowship twice in 2017 and was among 25 scholars selected from the 23 Native Nations of North America to attend the annual Aspen Ideas Festival (AIF) in Aspen, Colorado.

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