Church Verification Report
What we checked
- Not a duplicate: no similarly named church is listed with us
- The name reads as a real congregation
- Contact email reviewed (gmail.com, common for small churches)
- A Facebook page was provided; Facebook blocks automated reading, so it was weighed through the independent search
- A working page belonging to this church was found by the search: facebook.com/fcpcm/
- Independent web search performed: see the findings on the right
What we found
We searched for this congregation and found that a First Presbyterian Church has existed in Monrovia, Liberia since 1833 and is described as the country's third oldest church, after the Baptist and Methodist churches, with a news report covering its 189th anniversary celebrations in 2022 (FrontPage Africa; World Council of Churches; Wikipedia on the Presbyterian Church in Liberia). The specific Facebook profile you supplied matches a page titled "First Presbyterian Church -Monrovia TV," which presents itself as the official Facebook page of First Presbyterian Church -Monrovia, and a separate, older page for the same Liberian congregation also appears with roughly 790 followers (Facebook). Note that many search results refer to a same-named church in Monrovia, California, which is a different body (ECO denomination register, map and directory listings). The findings are summarized here for space; the full research was weighed in the review.
Our conclusion: Independent searching confirms that First Presbyterian Church in Monrovia, Liberia is a long-established congregation founded in 1833 and widely reported as the country's third oldest church, with news coverage of its 189th anniversary in 2022. The Facebook page supplied with this signup matches a page titled "First Presbyterian Church -Monrovia TV," which presents itself as the official page of this congregation, and a second, older page for the
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