Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana, Oct 5, 2017 / 12:01 pm
Catholics in Ghana should openly profess their faith in God if they want to improve their country, said Bishop Emmanuel Kofi Fianu of Ho last week, encouraging the faithful not to be ashamed of their Catholicism but rather boldly to proclaim it everywhere.
"Our world today does not want teachers but models; people who take the lead and invite others to follow them instead of sitting in their comfort zones and pointing out the way to others without they themselves ever taking the way," said Bishop Fianu, chair for the Ghanaian bishops' Commission of Laity, Women and Youth, according to CANAA.
"The witness of life and word demands that we march our words with our life so that what we say corresponds to what we do," Fianu continued.
The bishop's words came during a Sept. 29-30 conference on "Living Our Vocation as Catholic Faithful" held at the Star of the Sea Cathedral in Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana.