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Moderator speaks against
encroachment on school lands
Ho, Jan 12, Ghanadot/GNA - Right Reverend Dr Yaw
Frimpong-Manso, Moderator of the General Assembly of the
Presbyterian Church of Ghana, has said it was wrong for
people to encroach on the church’s school lands in Ho and
that it was an affront to both the church and the
government.
“Such acts are not only an affront to the Church but also to
government, which owns the school,” he said and called on
the Ghana Education Service (GES) to intervene.
Rt. Rev. Dr Frimpong-Manso was addressing a special church
service at the RISS Presbyterian Church in Ho to induct Rev
James Agborli-Adjokatse into office as the new Ho-Sub
District Pastor.
He said a playground was an important school infrastructure
and could not be taken away by land owners except they are
bent on having the school closed down.
Rt. Rev. Dr Frimpong-Manso appealed to Rev Agborli-Adjokatse,
who was transferred from Sameraboi, to work hard to increase
the church’s membership to enable the sub-district to attain
the status of a district.
Mr Kofi La-Opare, Senior Presbyter of the Church, said the
Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) passed
the land on to the Church but was reverted to the land
owners, sparking unending litigation between the church and
the landowners.
Rev Agborli-Adjokatse pledged to work hard to grow and
expand the 20-year old church currently under the Anum
District.
Rev Yaw Danso, Volta Presbytery Chairman of the Presbyterian
Church of Ghana, said in a sermon that the raging debate
among Christians on the rightness of baptism by immersing or
sprinkling was not necessary.
He said the important thing was for Christians to live by
the tenets of Christianity and not how one was baptized.
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