General News of 2012-09-09

Politicians Urged To Commit To Peace

The Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Cape Coast, Rt Rev. Daniel Allotey, has called on politicians to demonstrate commitment to peace by calling to order members of their parties who stirs up strife. He said it was important for us to note that efforts had gone into maintaining the current peace in the country and must make conscious efforts at maintaining it.

Rt Rev. Allotey said though he believed Ghana would come out of this year's election a stronger nation, it would take the conscious efforts by all to ensure that peace prevailed.

Rt Rev. Allotey was speaking at the media launch of the 30th anniversary celebration of the diocese in Cape Coast. The celebrations is on the theme "Serving our present age, our calling to fulfill".

He stated that the anniversary celebrations were dedicated to the you who constitute the future.

"We believe that providing a guiding light for their path now will pave the way for the realisation of the society we all yearn for," he said.

He said though it was easy to urge the youth to lead pious principled and exemplary lives in the society, it not easy for the youth to live such lives, particularly in such a laissez-faire environment and in the face of the challenging socio-economic circumstances and technological advancement.

He prayed that the Holy Spirit would help them live up to the high expectations.

He urged all Ghanaians to strive to protect the peace we were currently enjoying and remember that it was by God's grace that such peaceful situation prevailed.

Rt Rev. Allotey also advised the media to also help create a nation of people with divergent views but a nation united all the same.

He further urged the youth to provide a platform to propagate truth and accuracy and use its tremendous influence to spread ideas on how to make the nation a better place.

Rt Rev. asked the church to use the anniversary celebrations as a spiritual exercise to pray for Ghana.

He indicated that the diocese run 54 day nurseries, 62 primary schools and 74 junior high schools under the administration of the Anglican Education Unit, with two senior high schools.

In the area oh health, he said the diocese had one medical facility, an eye clinic in Cape Coast,

while another health facility would soon be established at Brimso, a community near Cape Coast.

He also indicated that the diocese would soon establish an E-village to serve as an apprenticeship centre to equip the youth in the region with employable skills.

Rt Rev. Allotey said the diocese would also use the 30th anniversary celebrations to raise public awareness about eye care and eye health and also raise funds to equip the Christian Eye Centre in Cape Coast, run by the diocese.

Other activities lined up for the celebrations include quizzes, youth forum, love feast, clean-up and a route march. It will be climax with a sod cutting ceremony and thanksgiving service on Sunday,October 14, 2012.