Head Of Greek Orthodox Church Visits Ghana

By ISD Sat, 28 Jun 2008Resident RumorBeatitude Theodoros II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, at the start of one-week patriarchal delay to Ghana, has described Africa as the continent of the anticipated and Ghana, effervescent mode for the continent. He hitherto entreated the clergy, politicians and the press to work harder to convert the stellar funds of the Continent to row it to further up the ladder levels of stand up. Beatitude Theodoros, who is in addition to the reproduce of the Greek Average Church, is to preside deceased the week-long appointments marking the silver jubilee celebration of the Church in Ghana. Among the appointments methodical for the celebration are a let pass doxology for his Beatitude at the Blessed Transfiguration Place of worship in Accra, politeness yell on Chief John Agyekum Kufuor, a silver jubilee durbar at Larteh in the Eastern Province, and loyalty of some chapels of the church at Tema and Larteh. Beatitude Theodoros told a press house of representatives in Accra that he had a positive religious fervor to Africa where he did a 10-year ceremonial service preceding his philosophy to the papacy of the church. His Beatitude had worked in Cameroun, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Botswana and Angola. He said his delay to Ghana was a dream to West Africa that had come, calculation, 'It is my homage as characteristic to be indoors.' Beatitude Theodoros entreated the world community to admire the true knowledge of Jesus Christ, to promote love, unity and understanding along with mankind.What emphasising the commercial, social and fan well-being of the oddball and disembark, Beatitude Theodoros, reiterated his yell to the church to outlook subtlety of the spiritual requests of the high society to test the sprouting a short time ago and commercial wane in the world community. He said the disembark need in addition to give reflect on to the church. The Beatitude was accompanied at the house of representatives by high case personalities of the church in Ghana and other West African countries.Among them were: Boon Kwame Joseph Larbi, Direct of the Ghana Diocesan Order Programme of the church, the Divine Official in Ghana, Bishop Damaskinos, the Greek Descriptive to Ghana, as well as lofty Greek corporation those in Ghana. Natural out of the old African Familiar Average Catholic Church, the dash 5,000-member Church was standard all the rage canonical Traditional values under the Patriarchate in 1982. The Church now has 35 communities in the Self-important Accra, Ashanti, Central, Eastern and Central Regions under the subtlety of 25 occupied priests. In rider to honouring its spiritual inquire, the Church said it had, with the responsibility of its allies in Europe and America, built and supported the back-to-back of schools in a diagram of communities in Ghana. It says it runs the St. Peters Contact Further education college at Larteh, and in the locality of health enunciation had organised or hosted curative teams to hand over free curative subtlety and supplies to a diagram of communities.SOURCE:Take THE Real McCoy Responsibility Attached TO THIS STORY: