Powerful national prayer service against LGBTQI+ in Ghana scheduled for Sunday

The event is being organised by the Ghana Christian Council and other Ecumenical bodies in collaboration with the National Coalition for Proper Human Sexual Rights and Family Values.

Fryers of the prayer service have emerged with some of the country’s notable senior and powerful pastors lined up to lead the event which will take place at the Church of Pentecost, Burma Camp Worship Centre, in Accra.

Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams, Most Rev Dr. Paul Boafo of the Christian Council, Rev Prof Paul Frimpong Manso, Bishop Dag Heward Mills and Most Rev Philip Naameh are the men of God who will speak at the event and lead the prayers.

Powerful national prayer service against LGBTQI+ in Ghana scheduled for Sunday Powerful national prayer service against LGBTQI+ in Ghana scheduled for Sunday Pulse Ghana

Themed: Homosexuality, A detestable sin to God, the marathon prayer service is expected to last for an hour and a half.

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Scriptural references will be from Leviticus 20:18, Romans 1:18-32 and 1 Corinthians 6:9-11, all of which speak about homosexuality.

Meanwhile, the Vatican has decreed that the Catholic Church deems same-sex unions as sinful and cannot bless them.

The Vatican’s orthodoxy office, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, issued a formal response on Monday to a question about whether Catholic clergy can bless gay unions.

The answer, contained in a two-page explanation published in seven languages and approved by Pope Francis, was “negative”.

According to the decree, the church welcomes gay people on humanitarian grounds but does not endorse their unions because it is in variance with God’s plan.

The Vatican holds that gay people must be treated with dignity and respect, but that gay sex is “intrinsically disordered”. Catholic teaching says that marriage between a man and woman is part of God’s plan and is intended for the sake of creating new life, so anything which goes contrary to that is unacceptable by the church.

“The presence in such relationships of positive elements, which are in themselves to be valued and appreciated, cannot justify these relationships and render them legitimate objects of an ecclesial blessing since the positive elements exist within the context of a union not ordered to the Creator’s plan,” the response said.

God “does not and cannot bless sin: He blesses sinful man, so that he may recognise that he is part of his plan of love and allow himself to be changed by him,” it said.

Pope Francis advocated for legal protection for same-sex couples during an interview with a Mexican television station, Televisa, in 2019.

However, the Vatican said the Catholic church leader’s comment was in reference to the civil.

Powerful national prayer service against LGBTQI+ in Ghana scheduled for Sunday

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