Traditional rulers, church leaders urged to support peacebuilding, not encourage crises

The Bishop of the United Methodist Church Nigeria (UMCN) Episcopal Area covering the districts of Cameroon, Senegal and Guinea-Bissau, Bishop Ande Emmanuel, has called connected accepted rulers to enactment the Church and authorities successful efforts to fortify peaceful coexistence and stableness successful society.

The bishop, who made the telephone during the weekend at the closing league of a five-day “Roundtable Peace Talk” held successful Jalingo, Taraba State, besides called connected religion leaders to instrumentality deliberate steps to beforehand peace, unity and peaceful coexistence successful their communities, alternatively than restricting their responsibilities to preaching the gospel.

Bishop Emmanuel said the relation of religion leaders goes beyond preaching, stressing the request for them to service arsenic progressive bid vanguards by promoting reconciliation, tolerance and unity among members of their communities.

According to him, the five-day engagement equipped UMCN leaders with applicable cognition and applicable skills, which they were expected to transportation to members of their churches and the wider communities wherever they serve.

He said bid should not beryllium viewed arsenic an enactment but arsenic a corporate responsibility, adding that citizens indispensable beryllium deliberately educated connected the value of sustaining peacebuilding and uni...