President John Dramani Mahama has welcomed Peter Cardinal Appiah Turkson back home, and thanked him for accepting to preach the sermon at the first National Day of Prayer and Thanksgiving Service.
Cardinal Turkson in response noted that “if the President of your country calls, you can’t say no.”
He reiterated the need for the church and government to provide support and guidance in towards our development and democracy.
He mentioned the new possibility of the church using its existing structures to promote sustainability, adding that the Catholic Church currently has a pilot project in Nigeria and will soon replicate that in other parts of the world.
Cardinal Turkson who arrived in Accra today, expressed appreciation to President Mahama for inviting him to preach at the Thanksgiving Service.
President Mahama has instituted July 1st as a day of national prayer and thanksgiving, with the first in the series of Christian and Muslim prayers and Thanksgiving scheduled for tomorrow Tuesday.
