Sentences with phrase «traditional authorities»

The rejection, did not only anger traditional authorities in the town, but some of his followers too.

A discussion has thus been held with traditional authorities and opinion leaders to identify existing structures that are in place to reduce child abuses in their areas.

Civil society organizations, active traditional authorities and religious leaders all constitute a positive addition to democratic consolidation.

Meanwhile, traditional authorities in the area have pledged their support to the police in fighting crime but have asked them to act professionally.

A young man seen in a viral video roaming the streets of Tamale on a motorbike without his clothes on has drawn outrage from dozens of viewers online and has caught the attention of traditional authorities of the city.

Violent clashes between Muslim youth and traditional authorities over a cemetery boundary resulted in several injuries and destruction of property, including the burning of a bank, a mosque and six churches.

Mr. Bapula said this during a child marriage discussion with chiefs and queen mothers and other traditional authorities in Tumu and Sissala East District.

We were also freed from traditional authority, from the divine right of kings, and from priestly manipulation.

Traditional authorities at the end of the meeting issued a communiqué prohibiting child marriage and teenage pregnancies in the district.

The progressivism that undermines traditional authorities for the sake of a different future has succeeded with them.

Radio Ghana's Seth Eyiah reports that Vice President Amissah - Arthur's campaign which is dubbed: «Touching Base With The People», is characterised by paying courtesy calls on traditional authorities and listening to their concerns, meeting party executives, engaging students and addressing mini rallies among others.

She said traditional authorities and town criers were engaged to help inform them but to no avail.

The thing that astonishes the hearers is Jesus» direct claim to be speaking for God and his refusal to cite traditional authorities for his teaching, as the scribes did.

Institutions, social forms, and traditional authorities recede.

A growing section of the population considers historical emphases on unsupported revelation or the mere word of traditional authorities as insufficient evidence for religious belief.

Whitehead has called this crumbling of the scientific rock one of the crucial experiences of his life.8 It can not have strengthened his assumption that there was a true traditional authority in religion, however hard to identify.

President John Mahama has assured traditional authorities in the country that every part of the country will receive its fair share of development in line with the government's transformation agenda.

The family of the late Sheikh Abdullah al - Ahmar, formerly paramount chief of Yemen's most powerful tribal confederation, the Hashid, combines traditional authority with a prominent economic role in local business and a political role in parliament and in the opposition.

Participants including current and former Assembly and Unit Committee members, Chiefs and traditional authority leaders, Opinion leaders, Faith - based organisations, Civil Society groups and Vulnerable groups such Persons With Disability (PWDs), women, economic and youth groups were exposed to the required functions of MMDCEs within Ghana's decentralization system.

«We declare and confirm that the ancient Okomu - Apoi is an autonomous kingdom, of immemorial existence as part of the Ijaw Niger Delta ethnic nationality and not subject or subordinate to any other traditional authority including the Bini kingdom and its monarchy.

Speaking at Kyebi as Okyeman marked this year's Ohum Festival, the overlord of the Akyem Abuakwa Traditional Authority said it was important for government to ensure that Ghanaians are relieved from their hardships.

They can also teach their parents, teachers, and other adults — a new role for children that reverses traditional authority.

When asked about the assumption that more education actually makes people question authority, not follow it blindly, LeVine explains that modern institutions such as Western schooling make individuals more likely to question traditional authority — an older member of a family, for example.

Convergence of financial products and a move towards risk - based capital in the banking sector are motivating the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (Irda) to move beyond the traditional

The brief argues that the EPAs Rule «unlawfully attempts to radically transform the electric sector and usurp states» traditional authority over the electric grid.»

He therefore pledged his support to forge strategic partnership with traditional authorities, private sector, public institutions, NGOs and individuals, «to attract the needed investment to design, and implement programmes and projects to impact positively on the lives of the people».

She also promised she will work in support of the regional minister and other traditional authorities in the region to ensure issues affecting women such as adolescent girl marriages are dealt with therefore they should «be patience and have confidence in the government.»

In the secular world, Luther has come to stand for the overthrow of traditional authority in favor of individual subjectivity.

McDermott's description of Traditionism as an essentially unified perspective assumes the truth of Oden's position and thus does not function well as a description of the actual evangelical theological spectrum, in which those of us who emphasize the authority of the early Church often find ourselves just as much at odds with staunch proponents of the Reformation as with those who wish to relativize all traditional authorities.

Established institutions, inherited social forms, and traditional authorities have been subjected to a long season of criticism.

We hardly take curiosity to be a vice anymore, even though every traditional authority, from Augustine and Jerome to Aquinas, considered it to be just that.

Your religion shall change from the mere intellectual belief in traditional authority to the actual experience of that living faith which is able to grasp the reality of God and all that relates to the divine spirit of the Father.

The appeal is to traditional authorities, above all, to the Bible.

Christianity for the first time in its 2,000 - year history is floating free in a sea of relativity, unable to maintain any of its traditional authority claims.

They take offense to my being «judgmental» — even though a modest restoration of traditional authority in their lives would help them be less atomized, disoriented, and vulnerable.

Bishops and other traditional authorities were unable to understand let alone to stop this process.

These scholars also represent the spirit of 21st - century America, with its love of diversity, its suspicion of traditional authority and its respect for personal experience.

The project launched in December with three days of workshops in the Sefwi Wiawso district attended by 70 stakeholders, from cocoa farmers to companies to government officials and traditional authorities.

I call on Honourable Members and the traditional authorities to effectively collaborate to play their respective roles well to provide the congenital environment for these industries to thrive.

Ahead of the campaign launch, there's some controversy in Cape Coast over the decision of the traditional authorities to lift the ban on noise - making, which precedes the Fetu Afahye festival.

Mr. Iddrisu therefore, urged the traditional authorities and the people of Ghana to have faith in President Mahama as he is determined to fulfill every promise made.

Speaking at a colloquium on Peaceful Election in Accra, Dr. Chambas also called on civil society, religious leaders and traditional authorities to assume their role in this national endeavour.

Vice President Kwesi Amissah - Arthur has appealed to traditional authorities to continue to give priority to the country's peace and stability.