As part of their support to the Ghana’s Government’s Green Ghana Project, the Ghana Catholic Bishops has said that it intends to plant one million tress across the country.
In a statement to the media, the group noted that they are committed to supporting the Government plant more trees in line with latter’s quest to make Ghana green. It continued that it will use this year’s rainy season to embark on the tree planting exercise.
The Catholic Bishops’ Conference is a group that is religious and have its legal foundation in the Canon Law of the Catholic Church, which applies to all Catholic Churches of the Roman Rite throughout the world.
Ghana’s Government under the auspices of the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources, has plan to plant five million trees on Green Ghana Day which falls on June 11, 2021.
Ahead of the big day, the Government has encouraged every Ghanaian to participate in the tree-planting exercise which is expected to help change the Climate situation of the country in a more positive direction.
In line with Government’s quest to achieve this, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference, in the released media statement, also called on all ecclesial communities at diocesan and parish levels, as well as lay societies, to take concrete actions toward planting trees to achieve their one-million-trees target, as the church’s support to the Green Ghana project.
Read below the statement from the Catholic Bishops’ Conference
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