The wife of the Vice President, Mrs. Matilda Amissah-Arthur, has said our lives as Christians are living testimonies therefore have to live worthy lives, show genuine love, be people of integrity, disciplined and practice what we preach.

The Second Lady Mrs. Matilda Amissah Arthur made the call as the Guest of Honour at the Catholic Women’s Association Annual Diocesan Conference held in Sekondi in the Western Region, under the theme, “The value of marriage and family: The Pastoral Challenges of the family in the context of the new evangelization.”

Mrs. Amissah Arthur called on them to be that woman who is, prayerfully supporting and nurturing young women, teaching them not only with the Bible, but also more importantly with their exemplary lives.

She said they should also remember that as Christians, God delights in our praises, but the nation is so polarized, so Christian women should rise above this and not to discriminate or see things in party colours.

She added that “ours is to love our enemies, so whether the person is of the same political persuasion or not we should love them because we are all one people.”

It is by loving that we show the world that we are Christians, she said.

She called on women in the country to help in nurturing their children at a time that we have an abundance of radio and television stations, adding we don’t have to sit down for our children to watch just anything, since there too much violence on out there on TV and our children having easy access to pornographic materials either from the internet, TV or in the books.

Mrs. Matilda Amissah Arthur said we have it as a duty to ensure that our children watch healthy and educative programs and read good books.

She said we should be interested in what our children watch and do, since there’s too much compromise and integrity that has been thrown to the dogs, so this is the time for us as Christians to stand out.

Adding that we are accountable to the Lord for the family that he has entrusted to us, Second Lady explained the need to help stop the indiscipline, laziness, fear, uncertainty, hatred, jealousy, callousness, back stabbing, pretense, hypocrisy, immorality, idolatry, so that as Christians we will be different and that will affect our homes, communities and society.

She prayed that as they celebrate their Catholic women’s day, they would evangelize by deed and by word, not only on Sundays in the church, but by every day of our lives in all that we say.

Some of the personalities who graced the Occasion were the Omanhene of Essikado traditional area, British Sekondi, Nana Kobina Nketia IV, who was the chairman for the occasion, the Deputy Western Regional Minister Hon Ekow Gyan, His Lordship Most Rev John Kwofie, Bishop of the Sekondi Takoradi Dioceses and the metropolitan chief executive of STMA.