Accra, Jan. 1, GNA - The General Overseer of the International Central Gospel Church, Pastor Mensah Otabil on Saturday declared 2012 as a year of purity that calls for clean hearts, thoughts and hands, which are the benchmarks for building prosperous nations.

He said a nation that had good virtues such as honesty, justice, kindness, nobility, fairness and above all living in purity would always succeed.