President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Sunday,  February 12, 2023, was honoured to welcome the 105th Archbishop of Canterbury, Rt. Hon. Justin Portal Welby, and the Anglican Consultative Council, to Ghana, for its 18th plenary meeting. 

According to him, in recent years, the Anglican Church has been a good example of what it means to love one another and give cheerfully to those in need, and it continues to play a significant role in the growth and development of the nation. 

“All Anglicans are extremely indebted to the Primate and Metropolitan Archbishop and his team for the dynamism that we are experiencing in the Anglican Communion in Ghana presently. Government stands ready to partner and support the various initiatives of the Church, especially those in line with the directive principles of state policy, to help develop a progressive and prosperous Ghana,” he said.

Nana Addo Dankwa added that he is fully aware that these are difficult times for us in Ghana, just as they are for most people in the world, cold comfort as that may be. 

However,  he added that with the help of Almighty God, and backed by a sense of determination, hard work and collective sacrifices on our part, he was confident that Ghana will successfully confront the difficulties to bring relief to the Ghanaians, and return the economy to the high rates of growth that characterised the management of our economy in the three (3) years preceding the COVID outbreak in 2020 and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. 

Finally, he added that Government was implementing several policy measures to this end, and, sooner rather than later, we shall overcome.

By Edem Mensah-Tsotorme