Thursday, April 9, 2009

There is corruption in the Church


A number of religious leaders who attended a two-day workshop on "Zero tolerance against corruption, the role of religious bodies in Ghana" at Takoradi have admitted that there is serious corruption within the churches.

Speaking at the workshop organised by the Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII), the religious leaders from the Anglican, Catholic, and Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission identified greed, selfishness, envy, opulence, flagrant flaunting of wealth as some of the drivers at the wheels of corruption in the churches.

They said that, the activities of these leaders were fed by and thrived on corruption.

Rt Rev Col (Rtd) John K. Otoo, the Anglican Bishop for the Sekondi-Takoradi Diocese, who delivered the keynote address, expressed his indignation about the speed and manner with which new churches were springing up.

"In the Christian community today, people are breaking away and are forming new churches, but they are cheating the world," he observed.

The rest is here-

http://news.myjoyonline.com/news/200904/28561.asp

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