His Eminence Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson, a globally respected figure in Catholic leadership and peacebuilding, has urged Ghanaians to look to their history as a guide toward unity, justice, and sustainable development.
Delivering the sermon at the National Day of Prayer and Thanksgiving held on Tuesday, July 1, Cardinal Turkson reflected on Ghana’s current national challenges, stressing that the country is once again at a pivotal crossroads.
“Crossroad examples are always with us. We live, and we face them all the time,” he said.
He encouraged Ghanaians to take inspiration from the biblical people of Israel by reflecting on their own national past to discern the right path forward.
“But let us, like the people of Israel, find solutions to how we discern the real path in crossroad experiences from going into our past. For it is our past that indicates to us how well we lived and how happy we were,” he said.
Citing landmark moments in Ghana’s post-independence development, Cardinal Turkson referenced national ideals like “Freedom and Justice,” and highlighted institutions such as the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), which symbolised Ghana’s early commitment to technological and human advancement.
“There have been experiences in the past that animate and spur us, but there have also been experiences in the past that we do not want to revisit,” he noted.
“But when we revisit our past, it is to enable us to reset the well-being for all—what we call the common good.”
He called on both leadership and citizens to recommit to inclusive development and ensure that every Ghanaian is carried along in the journey toward national progress.
