{"id":39372,"date":"2023-04-08T16:23:59","date_gmt":"2023-04-08T16:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/?p=39372"},"modified":"2023-04-08T16:23:59","modified_gmt":"2023-04-08T16:23:59","slug":"president-prays-for-prosperity-renewed-hope-as-ghanaians-commemorate-easter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/president-prays-for-prosperity-renewed-hope-as-ghanaians-commemorate-easter","title":{"rendered":"President prays for prosperity, renewed hope as Ghanaians commemorate Easter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Ghana. <\/strong><\/span><b>President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has prayed for prosperity and renewed hope for the people as Ghana marks the Easter festivities.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMay the celebration of the Crucifixion and Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ give birth to a new season of faith, hope, growth, prosperity, reconciliation and sacrifice for everybody in our beloved country and in the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe season is a good opportunity to reflect on that sacrifice, and the hope it brings us,\u201d the President stated, in a Facebook post, on Friday, April 7.<\/p>\n<p>Easter, the most significant celebration for Christians, he emphasised, espoused \u201cthe extraordinary sacrifice that Jesus made on the cross of Calvary, by dying for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His resurrection from the grave, he said, had also \u201cgiven us victory over sin and death\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Christians in Ghana are marking the day with church services, musical concerts, evangelism conventions, gift giving, among other solemn activities, to highlight their faith as disciples Christ Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>The major themes of the commemoration are love, repentance, empathy, forgiveness and salvation.<\/p>\n<p>Some attend church services in dark coloured outfit to reflect their mournful disposition.<\/p>\n<p>More than 70 per cent of the 34 million Ghanaian population register as Christians.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\">Ghana<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Ghana. President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has prayed for prosperity and renewed hope for the people as Ghana marks the Easter festivities. \u201cMay the celebration of the Crucifixion and Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ give birth to a new season of faith, hope, growth, prosperity, reconciliation and sacrifice for everybody in our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":39371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,12],"tags":[5092,5096,429],"class_list":["post-39372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-ghana","tag-ghana"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>President prays for prosperity, renewed hope as Ghanaians commemorate Easter - Ghana<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/president-prays-for-prosperity-renewed-hope-as-ghanaians-commemorate-easter\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"President prays for prosperity, renewed hope as Ghanaians commemorate Easter\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Ghana. 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