{"id":6746,"date":"2014-03-17T13:50:07","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T13:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=6746"},"modified":"2014-03-17T16:40:30","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T16:40:30","slug":"stop-labeling-pastors-as-partisan-mahama-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/03\/stop-labeling-pastors-as-partisan-mahama-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop labeling pastors as partisan \u2013 Mahama warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/253751_626824277334671_262927127_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6763\" alt=\"253751_626824277334671_262927127_n\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/253751_626824277334671_262927127_n-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/253751_626824277334671_262927127_n-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/253751_626824277334671_262927127_n.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>President John Mahama has criticized Ghanaians and politicians who constantly associate pastors who pray for the presidency and the nation with certain political parties saying, it is partisanship which must stop.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf religious leaders pray for the leadership and on that basis they are tagged as being partisan, then we do have a problem,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n<p>The President said the habit which flows from the extreme partisanship existing in the country must cease.<\/p>\n<p>He described partisanship as an \u201cissue that has plagued our country and if there is one thing that draws us back and does not enable us achieve our goals, it is the way the country is very deeply divided.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He made this known during an interaction with a cross section of the Ghanaian clergy on planning this year\u2019s National Week of Prayer and Fasting at the Flagstaff House.<\/p>\n<p>President Mahama urged the clergy to at all times, pray for leadership of the country for God&#8217;s guidance and also appealed to them to intervene in addressing the extreme partisanship existing in Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Gospel enjoins the leaders of the faith to pray for whoever is in authority that he shall have the hand of God that he shall have the wisdom granted him to a be able to lead the nation in a good way,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, President Mahama has pledged government\u2019s support to ensure that the National Week of Prayer and Fasting program has a national character.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, he is in total agreement with the proposal to make the event a national event saying, \u201cwe must continue to have a national event that is held in a national arena that we all can congregate and do the thanksgiving.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click on link below to listen to the President<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"President Mahama is urging Ghanaians to stop labeling pastors as partisan by Citi97.3\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F140012335&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxwidth=500&#038;maxheight=750&#038;dnt=1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Efua Idan Osam\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President John Mahama has criticized Ghanaians and politicians who constantly associate pastors who pray for the presidency and the nation with certain political parties saying, it is partisanship which must stop. \u201cIf religious leaders pray for the leadership and on that basis they are tagged as being partisan, then we do have a problem,\u201d he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[43,38],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Stop labeling pastors as partisan \u2013 Mahama warns - Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. 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