The Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church, Ghana, the Most Rev. Dr. Paul Boafo has asked women in the Methodist Church to create awareness about the abuses women and children go through in Ghana.

Dr. Paul Boafo believes the abuses and other corrupt acts plaguing the country could be reduced drastically if the teachings of the gospel are intensified by the churches.

Speaking at the Biennial Connexional Conference of the Methodist Women Fellowship in Cape Coast, the Presiding bishop said Christians, especially, women must step up their teachings to make sin unattractive to be committed by members of the church and the society in general.

“Women must team up to create awareness in our society about the abuses that are going on in the country. There are too many corrupt acts that are going on and these are affecting the poor and the vulnerable in our society,” he stated.

“I get heartbroken because those that are involved in the corrupt acts are the same people that come to church on a daily basis,” he lamented.

He entreated the women to speak up against such acts that are destroying the fabric of the Ghanaian society.

“Intensifying the teachings of the church is one of the surest ways of dealing with this menace. It is destroying the Ghanaian society and women and children are the people that are deeply hit,” he explained.

The lay President of the conference of the Methodist Church, Ghana, Bernard Kwesi Botwe affirmed the church’s stance on homosexuality.

“The church has designed a book that explains what it stands for. Our stance on homosexuality hasn’t changed and it won’t change because the Bible hasn’t changed,” he averred.

For the Connexional Secretary of the Women’s Fellowship of the Methodist church, Ghana, Grace Amoono, she was convinced many of the vices among children in Ghana could be handled well by women if they got time for their children as it used to be in the days of old.

“Many women do not have time for the children, hence the acts and behaviours we are seeing these days among our youth,” she explained.