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Asantehene cautions against
political threat
Kumasi, Sept. 6, Ghanadot/GNA -
The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has charged Christians
not to allow politicians to hold the nation to ransom as the
country prepares for general election in December this year.
He said Christians and members of other religious
organisations should rise up against the current threat of
insecurity ahead of the elections.
In an address read for him at the opening of the 8th
national conference of the Legion of Mary of the Roman
Catholic Church in Kumasi on Friday, Otumfuo Osei Tutu,
tasked Christians to imprint in the minds of political
leaders virtues of love, tolerance and peace during the
period.
The three-day conference which is being attended by
delegates from all over the country, was under the theme:
"Go preach the gospel of justice, peace and reconciliation
as Legionaries".
Otumfuo Osei Tutu described the theme as very appropriate in
the current situation where irresponsible behaviour and
inflammatory statements were being made by politicians.
He charged the Legionaries to preach and inculcate in
Ghanaians the virtues of justice, love, reconciliation and
peace, especially in this election year.
The Asantehene said the country had enjoyed relative peace
and stability which had earned it an enviable reputation in
the comity of nations and that there was the need for all
Ghanaians to jealously preserve it.
Most Reverend Thomas Kwaku Mensah, Metropolitan Archbishop
of Kumasi, said true peace could be obtained only through
forgiveness and reconciliation.
He urged the Legionaries to see themselves as instruments
which could be used for peace and appealed to them to pray
at all times for the sustenance of peace.
Most Reverend Mensah spoke against what he described as "globalisation
of sexual promiscuity" and stressed the need for self
respect and dignity for the human body at all times.
The Vicar General of the Kumasi Metropolitan Archdiocese,
Monsignor Douglas Peters, called on Christians to love one
another and work hard to promote peace in their communities.
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