By GNA Team, Kumasi
Kumasi, Dec. 25, GNA - Ghanaians have been counselled to always live in peace and harmony shunning animosity and vindictiveness as to help build a stable, prosperous nation, the Methodist Bishop of Kumasi, the Right Reverend Christopher Nyarko Andam, has preached.
This, he said, was a necessity because the nation could not afford to get backtracked in her development agenda due to wrangling, born out of rancour on the part of the citizenry.
Delivering the sermon at a Christmas Service at the Adum Wesley Cathedral, Kumasi, Rt. Rev. Andam said unity and peace were a process, not an event.
Therefore, “we all need to be accommodative and tolerant of each other irrespective of our differences as people in order to achieve our development objectives.”
The program saw the church praying for the nation’s leaders and citizenry, as well as the poor, marginalized and needy in the society.
Rt. Rev. Andam advised the people to show love to the underprivileged in the society, saying they should be each other’s keeper and caretaker.
At the Ohwimase Roman Catholic Church in Kumasi, Reverend Father Emmanuel Ayi, who delivered the Christmas homily, reiterated the need for all Ghanaians to embrace peace and unity in all their endeavours, without which it is impossible for the on-going nation building effort to be a success.
He said Christ's birth on earth signified peace on earth and goodwill towards men as it is summed up in Luke2:14, which reads in part, “.......peace on earth and goodwill towards men”.
In a related event to mark Christmas, Rev. Samuel Akwasi Frimpong, in-charge of the Oforikrom Victory Congregation of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana (PCG) sharing the same view, called on the people to demonstrate patriotism in whatever they do because the nation needed resilient people for prosperity.
They should enter year 2020 with a renewed mind set and must not allow partisan politics to divide them.
“We all ought to be development-oriented, always showing passion for peace and unity in order to build a disciplined nation”, he added.
Meanwhile, the Most Rev. Professor Daniel Yinkah-Sarfo, Anglican Archbishop of the Internal Province of Ghana, also in a Christmas message, has asked the people to pray fervently for the leadership of the nation.
He said this is a necessity since they needed the protection and guidance of the Almighty God to succeed in their work.
He appealed to the people to forgive each other for the wrongs committed and pray unceasingly for the nation’s sustainable growth.
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