Don't turn elections into religious battle - Apostle Nyamekye to Ghanaians

The Chairman of the Church of Pentecost (COP), Apostle Eric Nyamekye, has appealed to Ghanaians not to turn the upcoming general election into a religious battle.

“This election is a bit different from the past because of the fact that there is a Muslim who is standing and there is a Christian contesting. “We don’t want it to be a religious battle and so as a church we are mindful, and we are going to educate our members not to turn this election into a religious kind of battle,” he said.

Apostle Nyamekye indicated that the church would be going round, as it did in the past, to campaign for peace.

This year, he said, such a campaign would be intensified, looking at the crucial nature of the elections, so that the country would remain peaceful before, during and after the polls

In his state of the church address, Apostle Nyamekye said in the year under review, God in His unfailing love for the church continued to raise individuals from both within and outside the COP to support its work.

Apostle Nyamekye stated that by December 2023, the church had established its presence in 170 countries across the world, with a total membership of 4,534,644, representing a 7.9 per cent increase.

Notably, he added that the church in Ghana alone had a total membership of 3,864,355, accounting for 85 per cent of the total membership worldwide. The Chairman of the COP said last year the church undertook 390,545 evangelistic outreaches, representing a significant increase of 19.8 per cent from the previous year’s 325,893.