IGP urges Christian, Muslim leaders to make peace a weekly pulpit message

The Inspector-General of Police, Christian Tetteh Yohunu, has called on Christian and Muslim leaders to build interfaith harmony and public confidence in the justice system directly into their weekly preaching, asking them to commit to three specific measures during an engagement with religious leaders at National Police Headquarters.

Yohunu asked leaders to dedicate their Friday and Sunday services to messages on interfaith harmony, self-control and the dangers of religious conflict; to warn congregations explicitly against violence; and to frame Ghana’s stability as a matter affecting the next generation.

“Dedicate your Friday sermons in Islam, and Sunday sermons strictly to messages of interfaith harmony, self-control and the danger of religious conflict,” he said, according to the statement.

He also urged leaders to link the country’s peace directly to their congregants’ children: “Remind your congregations that an attack on the peace of Ghana is an attack on the future of their own children.”

The IGP argued that religious leaders were positioned to shape the attitudes and behaviour of young people in particular, and he encouraged them to promote lawful dispute resolution over violence as a matter of routine religious instruction, rather than a response confined to moments of crisis.

 

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