The Worldwide Miracle Outreach’s founder and president, Rev. Dr. Lawrence Tetteh, bemoaned the recent moral decay that has some clergy actively participating in.
In his sermon at the Accra watchnight service on December 31, 2022, he compared the situation in modern-day Ghana to that of the biblical cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.
“Ghana is becoming Sodom and Gomorrah in the things that sometime ago we stone, we rebuke, we chastise people about, we try to massage it politically now, shame on our politicians.
Unfortunately shame on our pastors too who know the truth but cannot speak he truth because of pittance, because of pittance we know the truth but we cannot speak the truth, shame on our pastors, shame on the clergy, shame on my colleagues, my brothers, shame on all of us, we have missed it.”
He emphasized that the congregation had become miserable and in agony due to the pursuit of poverty.
He also discussed how certain clergy members appeared to have political party allegiances and hence continued to remain silent about corrupt activities carried out by some politicians.
The majority of Ghanaians rang in the new year by attending Watchnight services at one of the many places of worship scattered throughout the nation or at a nightclub.
Ghana experienced a disastrous 2022 as a result of an economic crisis that compelled the government to apply for a loan from the IMF at a time when the cedi was fast losing value, inflation was out of control, and the government was subject to many downgrades by rating agencies.
The government has repeatedly attributed some of the crises’ effects to the continuing Russia-Ukraine war and the COVID pandemic’s aftershocks.
After signing a Staff-Level Agreement with the IMF in the hopes that funding from the US$3 billion facility will be delivered early this year, it has pledged to improve the nation’s economic situation.