Contemporary Ethical Issues in Church Information Management in The Contemporary Society

The church is public institution where probity and accountability in all aspects of her records, documentation and archives are to be held in high esteem. An institution that serves as resource Centre to the members and the entire populace thereby contributing to the development of the society. However, experience has shown that there are lots of ethical issues around this, there are cases records not well kept, records such as financial documents, historical information, activities of the church and so on. This problem has been the crux in scholarship that this paper is to fix. The paper has adopted the historical research approach to put forward the need for probity and accountability in the information management of the church in the 21st century. The concern posited by the paper is ensuring that high standard of ethical behaviour is maintained in the pursuit of information management in the church. It also subscribes to the fact that churches should accord great importance to integrity, honesty and fair-play. In the light of this fact, the paper examined three points, the concept of probity and accountability; the importance of ethics in church information management and implications of integrity in church information management.