January 14, 2016: The World Health Organization (WHO) said West Africa is Ebola-free. West Africa was finally given the all-clear over the Ebola epidemic that had killed over 11,300 people from December, 2013 to January, 2016.
During the period of the Ebola crisis, citizens were generally discouraged from handshakes and subjected to regular temperature testing.
In September 2014, Bishop David Oyedepo had calmed nerves by cursing Ebola in a Sunday morning service declared , “Ebola is cursed and goes back to the sea. The presence of the Ark of the Lord in West Africa rejects it. Pastor Ibiyeomie had also cursed the plague and encouraged the taking of the Holy Communion in response.
January 14, 1739: George Whitefield, the preacher who sparked America’s first Great Awakening, is ordained to the Anglican ministry. Whitefield celebrated it as “a day of fat things” in his journal. Whitefield became famous for his open-air preaching after jealous ministers denied him the use of their pulpits, and he was perfectly suited to it—his booming voice, it was reported, could be heard a mile away
January 14,1501: Martin Luther, Theologian and Founder of Protestantism, enters the University of Erfurt, aged 17. He would later become a priest and asked 95 thesis questions that led to a major breakaway from some practices in the Roman Catholic Church.
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