The Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference (GCBC) has firmed-up its commitment to plant one million trees during this year’s raining season as announced during its Plenary in May.
The commitment by the Ghanaian Bishops is to support government’s GREEN GHANA Project announced in April 2021 to plant five million trees in 2021, a June 7 Statement from the GCBC indicated.
The GCBC at its May 2021 Plenary at the National Catholic Secretariat launched a one million tree planting agenda to mark the special anniversary of Laudato Si.
As part of its commitment, the Ghanaian Bishops in the June 7 Statement, is encouraging all Ecclesial Communities at the Diocesan and Parish levels as well as Societies in the Church to take concrete actions towards planting trees to achieve the GCBC’s one million trees target of the Church’s support to the GREEN GHANA project.
Read the full Statement
