Most Rev. Charles Palmer Buckle (middle), the Metropolitan, Archbishop of Accra explaining a point to Most Rev. Prof. Emmanuel Asante (left), Chairman of the National Peace Council and Mr Aspect Caiquo (right) of the Spiritual Science Organisation after the seminar.

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‘Regulate religious broadcast to sanitise airwaves’

Salomey Appiah Dec - 18 - 2015 , 21:45

Members of the clergy have backed calls for guidelines to regulate religious broadcast to sanitise the airwaves in the country.

They observed that the current proliferation of radio and television stations coupled with the press freedom the country was enjoying had given room for religious extremism and manipulations.

That situation, the clergy further noted, exposed Ghanaians to fraudulent and dubious pastors and also threatened the prevailing religious harmony in the country.

They made the call at a seminar on religious broadcast in Accra.

The participant discussed guidelines for the regulation of religious broadcast in the country on the theme: “Religious broadcast as a vehicle for peace and national development.”

It was organised by the Religious Broadcast Advisory Council of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation and the National Media Commission (NMC) with support from the National Communications Authority (NCA) and the Ghana Independent Bro