The discussions by Parliamentarians leading to the call for laws to regulate churches have met another stiff opposition from believers in the country, this time from the Ghana Charismatic bishops Conference.
The Ghana Charismatic bishops conference chaired by bishop Kwame Yirenkyi Ampofo issued a communique this week calling on the Parliamentarians to concentrate on dealing with more important issues of national concern and leave regulation of churches.
According to the communique signed by the secretary Rev Kwasi Dei, the GCBC did not support the idea to regulate churches based on a number of points it raised. One of them being that it would be difficult to regulate peoples beliefs because it would then raise the need to regulate all other beliefs otherwise that would definitely create a bias.
The GCBC suggested that Ghanaians should be allowed to use their judgement to choose which faith and which church to belong to.
The GCBC believes that people are flocking to these self-styled pastors and prophets as an escape or in search of solutions to the myriad of problems facing them.
The Conference which has bishops with huge cathedrals all over the nation however advised the Parliament to find solutions to these myriad of problems plaguing the nation such as bad roads, the decline in the quality of education, how to curb the menace of armed robbery which is on the increase in the country making it unsafe and also the spread of slums in our cities especially the capital Accra.
The Ghana Charismatic Bishops Conference went further to reiterate their belief in the deliverance of the nation through the prophetic word of God to the government.
It can be recalled that last year and the beginning of this year the GCBC gave the government a prophetic word to use the army to fight armed robbery, use concrete to construct roads which led to the Vice President Dr. Bawumia experimenting with the idea in the construction of some roads near the Tema roundabout, and also to revert the educational system to the ordinary and advance level system to save our education as well as other ways by which the government could develop the nation.
The prophetic word is yet to be heeded to or implemented by government.
Read the communique here : COMMUNIQUE-LegislationToRegulateChurches_vers2_03Jun2019
