Accra, Dec. 12, GNA - The Afrikan Renaissance Mission on Saturday, urged the government to stop the "Christian indoctrination of children in all government-funded schools." It claimed that "Christianity has totally failed to instill honesty, morality, disciplines, probity and accountability in the Ghanaian society," adding that this failure has led to moral decadence, indiscipline and high crime wave. This was contained in a petition to the government through Professor Kofi Awornor, a Presidential Staffer, at the national convention of the Mission in Accra.

The petition said teachers must stop forcing children to learn and say Christian prayers because these make them wayward and pre-disposed to crime and immorality. It asked government to introduce the teaching and learning of African traditional religion as a separate discipline. The petition said imposing Christianity on children in school discriminates against traditional religion, which does not augur well for freedom of worship. It called on government to pay paration to all shrines vandalised during and after colonialism and that traditional priests must be accorded the same recognition given to other priests. "Government must make funds available to the appropriate divine priests and divine priestesses to regroup, re-site or rehabilitate sacred groves and or forests, which were destroyed or desecrated during and after colonial rule in any part of Ghana."