JAMAICA
The Gleaner
The chairman of the National Leadership Prayer Breakfast Committee, Reverend Dr Stevenson Samuels says on Monday, a new guest speaker will be announced for the 37th National Leadership Prayer Breakfast.
It follows the decision of Moravian Bishop Stanley Clarke to withdraw from the event scheduled for the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel.
A statement from the committee said Clarke, a former president of the Moravian Church in Jamaica advised the Breakfast Committee that the current controversy engulfing his denomination could overshadow the message he would wish to deliver to the nation at the breakfast.
There has been intense public attention on the Moravian church since the December 28 arrest and subsequent charging of 64-year-old pastor Rupert Clarke for having sex with a minor.
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