From Okey Sampson, Umuahia
The President, Vision Africa international, a Non Governmental Organisation (NGO) driving for global peace, Bishop Sunday Onuoha has called for a society where people have opportunities to work for peace irrespective of race, gender, religion, or geographical location.
Bishop Onuoha gave the task in a statement during the Global Peace Foundation’s programme, Global Peace Convention (GPC-2023), in Manila, the Philippines, whose theme was “One Family under God: Vision for National Transformation and a Civilisation of Peace.”
He was of the view that for the world to get to the future it desires, every sincere attempt at creating an impactful national, transformational change must work at diminishing social and economic classes or divides, acknowledge the uniqueness of the world’s socio-cultural formations and formulate peace-building.
Bishop Onuoha maintained that strategically, addressing the peculiarities intentionally would engineer human civilisation towards peace and not a ‘civilisation of war,’ adding that the “globe’s transformational change should aim at sustainable development.”
The Methodist bishop decried world governments’ claim that they allow freedom of conscience, but withhold freedom of religion.
He, therefore, stated that in the context of promoting peace and unity, every individual should be involved in things that engender national transformation.