Don't create panic about dooms day, Minister advises churches

Bechem (Brong Ahafo), 4th May ?99,

Religious leaders have been urged to desist from creating unnecessary panic with the approach of the millennium by refraining from dooms-day predictions of the end of the world with the advent of the 21st century.

Alhaji Kwadwo Maama Adam, Deputy Brong Ahafo Regional Minister, said the promotion of such apocalyptic notion would only drive the world to the brink of chaos and inertia and undermine industry, planning and stability.

He was speaking at the dedication of a 3.2 million- cedi brass band instruments donated to the Bechem district of the Seventh Day Adventist Church by the Kumasi Adventist Union at Bechem on Saturday.

Alhaji Adam said religion must fill people with hope not apprehension, adding that religious leaders should rather inspire their followers to be ready for their creator by living through righteous lives.

Pastor Appiah Kubi Kwarteng, president of the mid-west Ghana Conference of the church, urged Christians to pursue both their religious and civil duties with all their might.