Churches urged to speak on sanitation, gay issues

The Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for Sunyani, Mr Kwasi Oppong -Ababio, has urged churches to inculcate in their youth the importance of good environmental practices in their localities.

He said it was regrettable that Ghana had been identified as one of the countries where sanitation was not the best and asked church leaders to educate their congregation on the need to maintain good environmental practices to help keep the nation clean.

Mr Oppong-Ababio was addressing the closing ceremony of a four-day biennial national youth convention of the Christ Apostolic Church International (CACI) on the theme “Until Christ is Formed in You” at the Jubilee Park in Sunyani.

About 8,000 youth of the church from the 10 regions attended the convention which was to promote morality to enable them to attain, holiness, righteousness and other spiritual virtues that would not only promote good lives but also bring out the virtues that would help them propel the nation to