{"id":130787,"date":"2015-07-02T13:56:59","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T13:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=130787"},"modified":"2015-07-02T13:56:59","modified_gmt":"2015-07-02T13:56:59","slug":"i-pray-for-mahama-pray-for-ghana-too-palmer-buckle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=130787","title":{"rendered":"I pray for Mahama; pray for Ghana too &#8211; Palmer-Buckle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gabriel Charles Palmer-Buckle, the Catholic Metropolitan Archbishop of Accra has counselled Ghanaians to continually pray for President John Mahama and his government.<\/p>\n<p>Many Ghanaians have expressed their dspleasure over the current economic challenges.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;tftovLkjBMLx5xq0xdxXnXPXx81M1WE3&#8243;]Palmer-Buckle however believes those challenges can be surmounted if Ghanaians commit President Mahama and his administration into the hands of God.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPray for the country. I mean the scripture has it that we should pray for the country. If we don\u2019t pray for the country then we have no reason to blame those who are in charge if they are messing it up,&#8221; he advised.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have got to pray for them. There is not a single day that I don\u2019t mention the name of the President of the country. Since I remember I always mention their names because they must be prayed for for guidance and pray to God also to guide us to be able to follow what they are saying \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a related development,\u00a0the founder and General Overseer of the Action Chapel International, Arch Bishop Nicholas Duncan Williams<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/07\/02\/ill-pray-for-ghana-regardless-of-who-is-in-power-duncan-williams\/#sthash.Iynaqesx.oSMAMFEp.dpbs\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\">has also challenged Christians<\/span> <\/a><\/strong>to keep praying for the nation.<\/p>\n<p>According him, if Ghanaians follow the actions of politicians, \u201cwe won\u2019t do what is expected of us as Christians,\u201d he noted. \u201cI will continue praying for Ghana regardless of who is in power,\u201d the Arch-Bishop emphasized.<\/p>\n<p>The church leader made the comment at the maiden annual \u2018Republic Day National Call to Prayer\u2019 meeting in Accra on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The prayer session was held simultaneously in various regional capitals across the country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Marian Efe Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gabriel Charles Palmer-Buckle, the Catholic Metropolitan Archbishop of Accra has counselled Ghanaians to continually pray for President John Mahama and his government. Many Ghanaians have expressed their dspleasure over the current economic challenges. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;tftovLkjBMLx5xq0xdxXnXPXx81M1WE3&#8243;]Palmer-Buckle however believes those challenges can be surmounted if Ghanaians commit President Mahama and his administration into the hands of God. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":50,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[38,17],"class_list":["post-130787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-wassa-akropong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/50"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}