Accra Mail (Accra)
21 August 2008
Our attention has been drawn to xenophobic statements coming from certain quarters we expect much circumspection from. A GNA story on our front page today quotes a senior official of the Christian Council as saying that, "The country is being run by foreigners; it's becoming increasingly difficult for Ghanaians to run business in their own country, but developed and advanced countries were built ...
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I know not of any of your dealings with "Christians" in your country, but I offer this advice with a good heart; please accept it in the same spirit. I am a Christian, a close neighbour to me calls himself a Christian, but I see no fruit of it. The pope is asumed by many to be a Christian but from my perspective he is not. Christians are people too, some walking the same road but at different stages along it. A large percentage, I am ashamed to say, are indeed false and pursue Christianity with only their own selfish goals in mind. I ask you not to judge all Christians as if they were the same; they are not, they are many and varied, and from all walks of life.