Right Reverend Dr Festus Yeboah Asuama, Anglican Bishop of Sunyani, has urged stakeholders to help mould Ghanaian youth to become responsible leaders in future.
He said the attitudes and behaviours of the youth of today were not the best for national development and noted that it was time the Church, parents and all other stakeholders gave greater attention to the training of the youth.
The Anglican Bishop was speaking in an interview with the Ghana News Agency after a Church service that inducted Very Reverend Daniel Amoh Owusu Ansah, 69, as Dean of St. Anselm's Anglican Cathedral Church in Sunyani.
He noted that youth leaders inadvertently "abuse the positions they hold and that is very alarming" and said the Church has the tools with which to shape the youth morally.
"The Church should be an agent of behavioural change and there is the need to make conscious efforts to change their (youth) lives", Bishop Asuama said and called on the Church to support and encourage the youth with programmes that would prepare them to become responsible citizens.
The Anglican Bishop explained that the youth were exposed to all sorts of temptations and there was the need for stakeholders to intensify the campaign against their involvement in immoral activities.
He called on the National Media Commission, media institutions and players in the movie industry to check the nudity and pornographic materials that were put out there for public consumption and which negatively affects
the majority of the youth.
During the sermon, Very Reverend Charles Afainie, Dean Emeritus of the Anglican Diocese of Kumasi, advised Christians to lead exemplary lives since they were supposed to be the 'light of the world'.
He said if majority of Christians led Christ-like lives it would help to remove the corruption and decay in society.
Very Rev. Afainie called on the Ghana Education Service to re-introduce religious studies and worship in schools towards the moral training of the youth.
He said just as Churches and pastors have increased so also have the activities of Satan to destroy mankind.
Very Rev Owusu Ansah, in a declaration promised to be faithful to observe and keep the statutes and bye-laws of the Church and also to defend and maintain the possessions, privileges and rights of the Cathedral.