Catholic Bishop of Ho, Most Rev. Emmanuel Fianu elected chairman of National Peace Council

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May 7, 2025

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The National Peace Council (NPC) of Ghana has officially announced the election of Most Rev. Emmanuel Fianu, SVD, Catholic Bishop of Ho and Vice President of the Ghana Catholic Bishops Conference as the new Chairman of the Council, following a unanimous decision by the Board Members.

In a congratulatory statement issued by the Council, the NPC extended its heartfelt congratulations to Most Rev. Fianu, emphasizing that his election is a clear demonstration of the deep trust and confidence reposed in his leadership, wisdom, and unwavering commitment to peace.

“Your election is a testament to the confidence reposed in your leadership, wisdom, and commitment to peace. We look forward to a tenure marked by unity, dialogue, and national cohesion,”

The National Peace Council is an independent Statutory National Peace Institution established by an Act of Parliament (Act 818 of 2011) to facilitate the development of mechanisms for cooperation among all relevant stakeholders in peace building by promoting cooperative problem solving to conflict and by institutionalising the process of response to conflicts and to produce outcomes that leads to conflict transformation, social, Political and religious reconciliation and transformative dialogues.

Its core function is to prevent, manage, and resolve conflict and to build sustainable peace. The council is decentralized at the regional and districts levels.

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Thursday of the Twelfth week in Ordinary Time

2nd book of Kings 24,8-17.

Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he... began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Nehushta, daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.
He did evil in the sight of the LORD, just as his forebears had done.
At that time the officials of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, attacked Jerusalem, and the city came under siege.
Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, himself arrived at the city while his servants were besieging it.
Then Jehoiachin, king of Judah, together with his mother, his ministers, officers, and functionaries, surrendered to the king of Babylon, who, in the eighth year of his reign, took him captive.
He carried off all the treasures of the temple of the LORD and those of the palace, and broke up all the gold utensils that Solomon, king of Israel, had provided in the temple of the LORD, as the LORD had foretold.
He deported all Jerusalem: all the officers and men of the army, ten thousand in number, and all the craftsmen and smiths. None were left among the people of the land except the poor.
He deported Jehoiachin to Babylon, and also led captive from Jerusalem to Babylon the king's mother and wives, his functionaries, and the chief men of the land.
The king of Babylon also led captive to Babylon all seven thousand men of the army, and a thousand craftsmen and smiths, all of them trained soldiers.
In place of Jehoiachin, the king of Babylon appointed his uncle Mattaniah king, and changed his name to Zedekiah.

Psalms 79(78),1-2.3-5.8.9.

O God, the nations have come into your inheritance;
they... have defiled your holy temple,
they have laid Jerusalem in ruins.
They have given the corpses of your servants
as food to the birds of heaven,
the flesh of your faithful ones to the beasts of the earth.

They have poured out their blood like water
round about Jerusalem,
and there is no one to bury them.
We have become the reproach of our neighbors,
the scorn and derision of those around us.
O LORD, how long? Will you be angry forever?
Will your jealousy burn like fire?

Remember not against us the iniquities of the past;
may your compassion quickly come to us,
for we are brought very low.

Help us, O God our savior,
because of the glory of your name;
deliver us and pardon our sins
for your name's sake.

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew 7,21-29.

Jesus said to his disciples: "Not everyone... who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven.
Many will say to me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name? Did we not drive out demons in your name? Did we not do mighty deeds in your name?'
Then I will declare to them solemnly, 'I never knew you. Depart from me, you evildoers.'
Everyone who listens to these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on rock.
The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and buffeted the house. But it did not collapse; it had been set solidly on rock.
And everyone who listens to these words of mine but does not act on them will be like a fool who built his house on sand.
The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and buffeted the house. And it collapsed and was completely ruined."
When Jesus finished these words, the crowds were astonished at his teaching,
for he taught them as one having authority, and not as their scribes.

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