President John Agyekum Kufuor on Sunday urged religious bodies to adhere to the Constitutional provisions on religious tolerance to co-exist with each other.

He said the government would welcome any institution that would share the burden in the socio-economic development of the people and the country.
President Kufuor made the call when Mr Gordon B. Hinekley, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Worldwide, called on him at the Castle, Osu.

Mr Hinekley arrived in Accra at the weekend to dedicate the Temple of the Church at the Ridge Residential area, in Accra.

President Kufuor said the "Church that had now gained citizenship in Ghana" should bring the influence of the well-planned Salt City in the State of Utah in the United States (US), the headquarters of the Church, to bear on the development of the country.
He said their assistance would be required to help reduce poverty, illiteracy, disease, health care delivery, sanitation, law and order and over-population especially within the City of Accra.
President Kufuor commended the Church for the Temple, which is an architectural landmark, in a high residential area of Accra and called on members of the Church to live happily with their Ghanaian counterparts.
Mr Hinekley said with the building of the Temple it could assist its in Ghana and Africa to improve on their spiritual upliftment. He said the 1,500 members of the Church in Ghana were not being exploited but rather being assisted to improve their standard of living.