It is so strange that almost all the followers of the moribund CPP, the so called Nkrumahist ,always have their occiput (posterior part of the human head, atiko in twi) cracked whenever religion is given prominence by our lea ... read full comment
It is so strange that almost all the followers of the moribund CPP, the so called Nkrumahist ,always have their occiput (posterior part of the human head, atiko in twi) cracked whenever religion is given prominence by our leaders. The much disgraced Kwesi Pratt was in the news last week with his occiput literally cracked. And as is if someone snatched meat from his disproportionate jaws, he was screaming on top of his voice simply because the finance minister made mention of Jesus Christ in delivering the 2017 budget statement. Now what do we hear today? Kabila is in court because a national cathedral is to be constructed to provide non denominational church service to Christians. Lord have mercy. Btw, Pratt and Kabila are not alone in this religion phobic and anti-Christ business. There are a lot of such people in the stables of the irrelevant Nkrumaist. Chiefly among this anti-Christo Movement are Trokosis Andy k, Trokosi Kwarteng,and the self proclaim professor who go by the name prof Lungu.
THE REAL C.Y. ANDY-K 7 years ago
Say what you like but you can't defend what you say. Ghana is supposed to be a secular state and so the govt or its officials have no business meddling religion into state affairs in the manner they are doing.
I fully supp ... read full comment
Say what you like but you can't defend what you say. Ghana is supposed to be a secular state and so the govt or its officials have no business meddling religion into state affairs in the manner they are doing.
I fully support Kwesi Pratt and Kabila in this law suit. I was beginning to despair at the failure of even the so-called Left in Ghana speaking at least against the crazed backwardness called religion that has engulfed the country. The word "intelligentsia" has long disappeared from the lexicon of Ghanaians. Tell me, do you know any group of people in Ghana you can refer to as such? Zilch! At least, we pro-Nkrumahists are trying to do something about it.
No, wonder, Ken Kuranchie came out of prison and blurted out that "Ghanaians are not civilised"! It is bcos of people like you and your ilk.
Andy-K
Prof Lungu 7 years ago
Ha! Ha! Ha!
We must laugh again.... for the truth being told by THE REAL C.Y. ANDY-K.
Greetings!
Ha! Ha! Ha!
We must laugh again.... for the truth being told by THE REAL C.Y. ANDY-K.
Greetings!
Dessie 7 years ago
Look:even Abraham Lincoln believe in God by comparing Negro as God creation therefore believing in Ghana is believing in religion and religion is different forms of worshiping God -secular state:therefore if we build national ... read full comment
Look:even Abraham Lincoln believe in God by comparing Negro as God creation therefore believing in Ghana is believing in religion and religion is different forms of worshiping God -secular state:therefore if we build national icon centre for a religion it is not about politic,Case point:Montreal is full of cathedral building beaded of their ancestral religiousity.it crest Impressionism and if we have such among out community it is such a great ideas .there is no politics ideology in here and I believe all these crook clegyies,are just modern day crookism and fantasies which are not part of core value of religionism
princess adofo 7 years ago
teiko you yourself do you see yourself as a christian ?these are reasons we are suffering.fools like teiko go to church thinks he's a christian.after spilling blood they rin to church.hypocrites God will punish you.be fair to ... read full comment
teiko you yourself do you see yourself as a christian ?these are reasons we are suffering.fools like teiko go to church thinks he's a christian.after spilling blood they rin to church.hypocrites God will punish you.be fair to yourself teiko are you a christian by bible standard
Esi 7 years ago
He has a point there. Ghana is a majority Christian nation, but the country's laws itself are not based on Christian or any religious laws - his court writ is valid.
He has a point there. Ghana is a majority Christian nation, but the country's laws itself are not based on Christian or any religious laws - his court writ is valid.
Prof Lungu 7 years ago
Esi,
Thanks for your simple, but critical perspective, and a strong voice on this important matter.
Peace!
Esi,
Thanks for your simple, but critical perspective, and a strong voice on this important matter.
Peace!
Dessie 7 years ago
Useless point:National cathedral is religious but nfrastructure;it got nothing to do with Ghana Christians bra mostlems and ethicist .these are all bushit:it is about infrastructure religious infrastructure that leave our unb ... read full comment
Useless point:National cathedral is religious but nfrastructure;it got nothing to do with Ghana Christians bra mostlems and ethicist .these are all bushit:it is about infrastructure religious infrastructure that leave our unborn mark to cerebrate.if you go to Rome,it is there,if you go to Arabians it is there,if you go to Wurope it is there even cite d'bour they have national cathedral at Ymosokrom which attract tourism.we are so backward thinking-wake up Ghanaian -it is not about wearing lawyers symbol and try to create attention
Prof Lungu 7 years ago
Might it be you are speaking on those terms because you are a Christian?
Please explain to us why the public should use tax payer money to fund a cathedral for Christians. You are not thinking that would be the end, do you ... read full comment
Might it be you are speaking on those terms because you are a Christian?
Please explain to us why the public should use tax payer money to fund a cathedral for Christians. You are not thinking that would be the end, do you?
How many of those cathedrals in Montreal were built using public funds?
How much history do you know, and what lessons do you appreciate, therefrom?
WE are very disappointed!
And to to say Yamoussoukro is even worth our respect because the $300,000,000 edifice "attract tourism".
Do you know how many, how much, compared to, if Boigney had used the public funds to construct a first class hospital, or university?
READ:
"The Largest Church in the World Has The Fewest Worshippers
Former Ivory Coast dictator Félix Houphouët-Boigny built a beautifully massive church that barely anybody attends. Nina Strochlic takes a look inside.
By: Nina Strochlic
"If it’s in the Dictator Handbook that you must leave behind an extravagantly unaffordable and unnecessary vanity project, then Ivory Coast President Félix Houphouët-Boigny has fulfilled that requirement.
In the village-turned-capital of Yamoussoukro, the world’s largest church stands towering above a lush sprawl of grazing cattle and ramshackle buildings. A copper cross gleams atop a massive dome, while underneath, a marble and granite plaza stretches over seven acres and could fit a crowd of 300,000. But despite its $300 million price tag and 18,000-person indoor capacity, the out-of-place classical Greco-Roman structure has remained mostly empty for the past 25 years.
Houphouët-Boigny, Ivory Coast’s first president after the country’s independence from France, was immensely popular for the 33 years he ruled the country. He was also immensely rich, amassing a fortune of billions that apparently paid for the Basilique Notre-Dame de la Paix de Yamoussoukro, or “The Basilica of Our Lady of Peace of Yamoussoukro”—though he refused to answer questions of the church’s financing, saying it was “a deal with God.”
In 1985, after moving the country’s capital to his birthplace of Yamoussoukro, then an agricultural village of just 15,000, Houphouët-Boigny commissioned a lavish replica of the Vatican’s St. Peter’s Basilica in honor of the town’s new title and, presumably, as a lasting legacy to his reign as it dwindled.
He spent the next four years pouring millions into the project, led by architect Pierre Fakhoury, who brought in a crew of 1,500 workmen to sculpt the colossal structure in an expedited three years—compared to the 109 it took to construct St. Peter’s—to ensure the aging president could see its completion.
The end result was a complex stretching across 323,000 square feet and soaring 525 feet into the air. Inside, a massive, domed nave offers individual air conditioning vents for all 7,000 chairs. It’s decorated with 36 massive stained-glass windows, hand-made in Bordeaux, France, and one of which depicts Houphouët-Boigny offering a gift to Jesus.
Rows of 272 columns surround the basilica, four of which are large enough to hold elevators that carry visitors to a balcony under the dome with sweeping views of the capital. The severe contrast that the towering edifice struck with its surroundings lent it to become colloquially dubbed “the basilica in the bush.”
The Vatican wasn’t exactly pleased with its crowning glory being overshadowed by the African president’s passion project, though Houphouët-Boigny called it a “personal gift” to the church. When Pope John Paul II requested that the president not build the basilica taller than St. Peter’s, the architect lowered the dome height, but then plopped on a massive 30-foot cross on top, giving it 100 feet on the Vatican’s church.
Despite the duplicity and an initial year of hesitation to give his blessing, Pope John Paul II accepted an invitation to dedicate the church in 1990. He stayed at the official papal residence built specifically for him, boasting a swimming pool and a 40-room mansion for his entourage. The pope, in return for agreeing to visit, requested the government build a neighboring hospital for the poor. It was a promise unrealized until 2012, when construction finally began. Apparently, the money had been held in a Vatican bank account until then.
The project also divided native Ivorians, some of whom took pride in the massive monument to God, and others who condemned it as a waste of money in a country with an annual per capita income of $650. “The size and expense of the building in such a poor country make it a delicate matter,” a Vatican official told Time when it was completed. “But it is a project close to the President’s heart, and he sees it as an experience of faith. We want to respect that.”
Houphouët-Boigny was right to rush the construction. He died three years later, and his funeral was held in the basilica, filling the empty space for the first time since the pope’s consecration.
Today, Polish clergymen and members of the Society of the Catholic Apostolate, who were appointed by Pope John Paul II, oversee the church, and the costs to maintain the complex are an estimated $1.5 million annually.
The Basilica of Our Lady of Peace manages to attract some 350 worshippers to Sunday services, but due to the country’s ironically small Catholic population—comprising only about ten percent of the Ivory Coast population—the thousands of seats in the largest church in the world have gone mostly unfilled."
(Source: www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/01/30/the-largest-church-in-the-world-has-the-fewest-worshippers.html).
Please appreciate the difference between the personal/private, and the public.
There is a difference there, and it is no joke, if you believe in liberty.
Greetings.
Esi 7 years ago
Infrastructure for infrastructure sake? Is that what we have been reduced to as a nation? Government should then go ahead and build shrines for traditional worshippers, and mosques as well. According to your flawed logic, wha ... read full comment
Infrastructure for infrastructure sake? Is that what we have been reduced to as a nation? Government should then go ahead and build shrines for traditional worshippers, and mosques as well. According to your flawed logic, what is good for Italy is good for Ghana too.
Prof Lungu 7 years ago
READ: "...A citizen, James Kwabena Bomfeh Jnr popularly known as Kabila caused his lawyers to issue the writ on his behalf against the State invoking the exclusive original jurisdiction of the court pursuant to article 2 (1) ... read full comment
READ: "...A citizen, James Kwabena Bomfeh Jnr popularly known as Kabila caused his lawyers to issue the writ on his behalf against the State invoking the exclusive original jurisdiction of the court pursuant to article 2 (1) and30 (1)...".
WE SAY: Go dey!
We support you, Mr. James Kwabena Bomfeh Jnr, a.k.a., Kabila.
ITEM: It is astounding all those so-called Nkrumahist parties, including the CPP, in this, another momentous Kwame Nkrumah teaching moment, have no clue what they stand for, what they believe, what they think Kwame Nkrumah of blessed memory would have done/said.
Does the CPP and all those so-called Nkrumahists parties know what Unitary Ghana actually means?
Asiwome 7 years ago
I was a little taken aback when I read about government sponsored Hajj boards and national mosques, and now another cathedral in Accra. These people are either playing politics with religion or they are playing religion with ... read full comment
I was a little taken aback when I read about government sponsored Hajj boards and national mosques, and now another cathedral in Accra. These people are either playing politics with religion or they are playing religion with politics.
Bedzrah 7 years ago
The government only provided the Land. Hmm.Pls presdoo ,take the land back.We Christians are ready to provide our own land.Thank you for your kind gesture.
The government only provided the Land. Hmm.Pls presdoo ,take the land back.We Christians are ready to provide our own land.Thank you for your kind gesture.
Dessie 7 years ago
This absolutely nonsense:this funded by private and government partnership.givernment providing land and the Christian denomination providing money.it is part of infrastructures that brightened the city and if Moslem communit ... read full comment
This absolutely nonsense:this funded by private and government partnership.givernment providing land and the Christian denomination providing money.it is part of infrastructures that brightened the city and if Moslem community want that as well government can provide them with land as well also add to infrastructure and brightened the city .Case point 9/11 centre behind it Mosque approved by New York City it selves as historical centre .nothing wrong about that but what we don't have in Ghana are national meseums ,Sunphony Orchestra podiums which we. We'. Red them ,we need symphony orchestra as school callucullum it will create jobs and i crest youth skills .hire instructor from southern America ,Canada or else where that are known for Piono,Austra home of Mozart Germany :VandaHovan, to teach our student
princess adofo 7 years ago
we have so many churches in yet ghanaians have buried themselves in corruption.in any case do we have non denomination doctrine? pastors that will preach there will either be a catholic,charismatic,pentecostal or protestant.b ... read full comment
we have so many churches in yet ghanaians have buried themselves in corruption.in any case do we have non denomination doctrine? pastors that will preach there will either be a catholic,charismatic,pentecostal or protestant.building a church does not make one Godly.let's remember God blocked david from building a church for him.one cannotbe Godly without compassion
princess adofo 7 years ago
who's that teiko boy who feels going to church makes him a christian.people who can do unthinkable think building a church makes him better than murderers .teko just shut up are you a christian
who's that teiko boy who feels going to church makes him a christian.people who can do unthinkable think building a church makes him better than murderers .teko just shut up are you a christian
Mr Bond 7 years ago
Where was Kabila when Mahama was president sponsoring Muslims to Mecca?Was he leaving on planet Mars?or it because of dead goat cum yentie obiaa?We can stop the president using his own money but if it is state money sponsorin ... read full comment
Where was Kabila when Mahama was president sponsoring Muslims to Mecca?Was he leaving on planet Mars?or it because of dead goat cum yentie obiaa?We can stop the president using his own money but if it is state money sponsoring Muslim to Mecca and building Cathedral then you have a case.But if it is nana Ado's what is your beef about his own project?
It is so strange that almost all the followers of the moribund CPP, the so called Nkrumahist ,always have their occiput (posterior part of the human head, atiko in twi) cracked whenever religion is given prominence by our lea ...
read full comment
Say what you like but you can't defend what you say. Ghana is supposed to be a secular state and so the govt or its officials have no business meddling religion into state affairs in the manner they are doing.
I fully supp ...
read full comment
Ha! Ha! Ha!
We must laugh again.... for the truth being told by THE REAL C.Y. ANDY-K.
Greetings!
Look:even Abraham Lincoln believe in God by comparing Negro as God creation therefore believing in Ghana is believing in religion and religion is different forms of worshiping God -secular state:therefore if we build national ...
read full comment
teiko you yourself do you see yourself as a christian ?these are reasons we are suffering.fools like teiko go to church thinks he's a christian.after spilling blood they rin to church.hypocrites God will punish you.be fair to ...
read full comment
He has a point there. Ghana is a majority Christian nation, but the country's laws itself are not based on Christian or any religious laws - his court writ is valid.
Esi,
Thanks for your simple, but critical perspective, and a strong voice on this important matter.
Peace!
Useless point:National cathedral is religious but nfrastructure;it got nothing to do with Ghana Christians bra mostlems and ethicist .these are all bushit:it is about infrastructure religious infrastructure that leave our unb ...
read full comment
Might it be you are speaking on those terms because you are a Christian?
Please explain to us why the public should use tax payer money to fund a cathedral for Christians. You are not thinking that would be the end, do you ...
read full comment
Infrastructure for infrastructure sake? Is that what we have been reduced to as a nation? Government should then go ahead and build shrines for traditional worshippers, and mosques as well. According to your flawed logic, wha ...
read full comment
READ: "...A citizen, James Kwabena Bomfeh Jnr popularly known as Kabila caused his lawyers to issue the writ on his behalf against the State invoking the exclusive original jurisdiction of the court pursuant to article 2 (1) ...
read full comment
I was a little taken aback when I read about government sponsored Hajj boards and national mosques, and now another cathedral in Accra. These people are either playing politics with religion or they are playing religion with ...
read full comment
The government only provided the Land. Hmm.Pls presdoo ,take the land back.We Christians are ready to provide our own land.Thank you for your kind gesture.
This absolutely nonsense:this funded by private and government partnership.givernment providing land and the Christian denomination providing money.it is part of infrastructures that brightened the city and if Moslem communit ...
read full comment
we have so many churches in yet ghanaians have buried themselves in corruption.in any case do we have non denomination doctrine? pastors that will preach there will either be a catholic,charismatic,pentecostal or protestant.b ...
read full comment
who's that teiko boy who feels going to church makes him a christian.people who can do unthinkable think building a church makes him better than murderers .teko just shut up are you a christian
Where was Kabila when Mahama was president sponsoring Muslims to Mecca?Was he leaving on planet Mars?or it because of dead goat cum yentie obiaa?We can stop the president using his own money but if it is state money sponsorin ...
read full comment