Kumasi, March 29, GNA - Bishop Boakye Yiadom, Kumasi District Head of the Brotherhood Church, has asked his colleague pastors to provide the needed leadership to purge society of animosity and intolerance. He said they should focus on helping the people regardless of ethnicity, religion or political differences to accommodate each other. Additionally, they should set good example for the communities by living "Christ-like lives."

Bishop Boakye, who was speaking to the Ghana News Agency (GNA) on the sidelines of the national youth conference of the church held in Kumasi, said it was time they did away with hypocrisy and courageously denounced wrong doings in the church and society. The expectation, he said, was that as leaders they should avoid acts that would give room to "unbelievers" to find fault and speak bitterly against the church.

More than 100 young people drawn from the various groups in the church attended the conference.

Bishop Boakye said the conduct of some members of the clergy had become a big bother and ruining the image of the church. He encouraged the youth to mount an onslaught on acts of indiscipline and immorality that had ensnared the young people. Primate Seth Adofo, the Spiritual Head of the Church, advised the youth to eschew selfishness, greed and pride and work towards the peace of the country. He said as young men and women in Christ, they must lead morally upright lives and pledged the church's commitment to their cause.