ACI Africa Correspondent, Ghana

Bishop Emmanuel Kofi Fianu, SVD, the Episcopal Chairman for Health of the Ghana catholic Bishops’ Conference and Bishop of Ho in Ghana’s Volta Region who is calling on government to listen to the advice of Medical Experts on COVID-19. / Ho Diocesan Communication Office

Ghanaian Bishop Calls for Professional Support, Stakeholder Engagement in COVID-19 Fight

As the cases of COVID-19 hike in Ghana, a Catholic Bishop in the West African country says for the country...

Sr. Olivia Umoh, DC, Director of Safe-Child Advocacy (SCA), a Humanitarian Organisation owned by the Archdiocese of Kumasi, sharing food to Children with disability and their mothers at a recent party for the vulnerable. / SCA.

Street Children in Ghana’s Kumasi Archdiocese to Get Christmas Treat from Sisters

A pre-Christmas treat has been planned for street children in Ghana’s Kumasi Archdiocese, organizers of the 20-22 December initiative have...

Christians in Ghana Seek God’s Intervention ahead of National Election

Polls in Ghana closed Monday, December 7 evening against a backdrop of prayer requests from Christians on the eve of...

Ghana’s Catholic Gender Specialists Urge Strengthening Response to Gender-Based Violence

On the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women marked Wednesday, November 25, two Catholic gender experts...

Ladies who were once on the street. Credit: Safe-Child Advocacy.

Make Child Safeguarding in Ghana a Priority, Church-based Entity Tells Government

A nation-wide coalition of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Ghana spearheaded by a church-based humanitarian institution has called on the Government...

Some Bishops of Ghana with the Apostolic Nuncio in Ghana,
Archbishop Henryk Mieczysław Jagodziński who presided at the Holy Mass of the 25th Anniversary of the Keta-Akatsi Diocese in Ghana’s Volta Region. / Bro. Stephen Domelevo, SVD

Be Agents of the Kingdom of God, Bishop in Ghana at Diocesan Silver Jubilee

The Bishop of Keta-Akatsi Diocese in Ghana’s Volta Region has called on the people of God under his pastoral care...

Sr. Regina Ignatia Aflah, HDR, the Co-ordinator for Human Rights
and Justice of Caritas Ghana. / Damian Avevor

Nun in Ghana Calls for “deepened social protection interventions” for Deprived in Society

A Ghanaian nun has, on the occasion to commemorate the fourth World Day of the Poor, called on the government and...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo with members of the newly
constituted Governing Board of Ghana’s National Peace Council after
the inauguration in Accra on November 10, 2020. / Daniel Orlando

Appointment to Ghana’s National Peace Council Chance “to learn, to build peace”: Prelate

A Ghanaian Bishop who was recently appointed as a member of the Governing Board of the National Peace Council (NPC) in the...

Archbishop Philip Naameh, President of the Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference with Archbishop Henryk Mieczysław Jagodziński, Apostolic Nuncio to Ghana and Bishop Edoe Kumordji, SVD, Bishop of the Keta-Akatsi Diocese at the opening of the 2020 Plenary of the GCBC at the St. Catherine Girls Senior High School at Agbakope on November 9, 2020. / Damian Avevor

The Word of God Must be Engraved in Ghanaians’ Lives, Bishops at Plenary Assembly

The Catholic Bishops in Ghana have underscored the need for the Word of God to influence “every aspect” of the...

The Panelists at the Media briefing on Securing Government of Ghana’s Support to the ongoing process of negotiating a UN Binding Treaty on Transnational Corporations and Human Rights. / Caritas Ghana

Ghana’s Government Needs to Sign UN Treaty on Transnational Corporations: Church Official

The leadership of Caritas Ghana is urging the government of the West African nation to show commitment in safeguarding the...

The new Priests bless the people of God at the Our Lady Star of the Sea Cathedral of Takoradi shortly after their ordination by Bishop Joseph Francis Kweku Essien of the Wiawso Diocese. / Sekondi-Takoradi Communications Office.

Prelate in Ghana Calls for Stewardship, Accountability to Parishioners at Ordination Event

On the occasion of the ordination of three Deacons to the Priesthood for Ghana’s Sekondi-Takoradi Diocese, the ordaining Prelate counselled...

Mr. Samson Lardy Anyenini, member of the Catholic Association of Media
Practitioners, Ghana (CAMP-G) who was adjudged the 2019 P. A.V. Ansah Journalist
of the Year at the 25th Ghana Journalists’ Association Awards ceremony in Accra on
October 24, 2020. / Myjoyonline.com

Catholic Named Best Journalist in Ghana Wants Steadfastness ahead of December Elections

A member of the Ghana’s Catholic Association of Media Practitioners (CAMP-G) has been crowned the overall winner in the just...

Bishop Emeritus Anthony Kwami Adanuty of Keta-Akatsi laying hands on one of the Deacons he ordained a Priests for the Diocese at the St. Francis of Assisi Parish at Anloga in the Volta Region of Ghana on Saturday, October 17, 2020. / Keta-Akatsi DEPSOCOM.

Let Your Priesthood Bring You New Life, Retired Prelate at Ordination in Ghana

The Bishop Emeritus of Ghana’s Diocese of Keta-Akatsi has, on the occasion of the ordination of three Deacons to the...

Archbishop Henryk Mieczyslaw Jagodzinski with members of the
Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference (GCBC) before a Eucharistic Celebration at the Holy Spirit Cathedral, Accra on October 15, 2020 to officially welcome him as the 9 the Apostolic Nuncio in Ghana. / Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference (GCBC)/Facebook Page.

Papal Envoy Lauds Church in Ghana for “great hospitality” at Maiden Public Mass

The new representative of the Holy Father in Ghana has, on the occasion of the first public Mass that was...

Bishop Alfred Agyenta, Local Ordinary of the Navrongo-Bolgatanga
Diocese in Upper East Region of Ghana with the Chief Executive Office of Caritas Ghana, Mr. Zan Akologo during a presentation ceremony to the Diocese on September 28, 2020 to support people impacted by the recent floods in the Region due to heavy rains and spillage of the Bagre Dam in Burkina Faso. / Caritas Ghana

Prelate, Caritas Officials in Ghana Call for Sustainable Solution to Perennial Flooding

For the past 19 years, a section of Ghanaians has battled with flooding that has led to massive destruction of...

Sr. Olivia Umoh, DC, the Director of Street Children Project leading
the Kumasi Humanitarian Team to the streets of Kumasi to distribute sleeping mats and blankets to homeless citizens in Kumasi on Tuesday, September 15, / Caritas Ghana

Vatican COVID-19 Response Fund Boosting Caritas Ghana Interventions among Deprived

The Vatican COVID-19 Response Fund donated to Ghana’s Archdiocese of Kumasi is changing lives of vulnerable groups in the Archdiocese...

Fr. Bonaventure Kwofie, outgoing parish Priest of St. Stephen Catholic Church at Darkuman in Accra with Children of the Catholic Youth Organisation (CYO) during his send-off Mass on Sunday, September 20, 2020. / ACI Africa.

“We must fight societal indiscipline with zeal,” Cleric in Ghana Urges Christians, Muslims

A Catholic Priest in Ghana’s Accra Archdiocese has expressed concern over rising cases of indiscipline and lack of respect for...

Archbishop Charles Gabriel Palmer-Buckle of Cape Coast with six
new Priests, he ordained for the Accra Archdiocese at the Holy Spirit Cathedral on Saturday, September 19, 2020. / Radio Angelus

Priesthood is Living Life of “total self-denial”: Ghanaian Prelate at Ordination

The Archbishop of Ghana’s Archdiocese of Cape Coast has, on the occasion of the ordination of six Deacons to the...

Archbishop Henryk Mieczyslaw Jagodzinski, the new Apostolic Nuncio to Ghana presenting his Letter of Introduction to the President of the Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference at the National Catholic Secretariat on Wednesday, September 9, 2020. / National Catholic Secretariat.

Papal Representative in Ghana Assumes Office, Promises Collaboration with Local Ordinaries

Archbishop Henryk Mieczyslaw Jagodzinski has officially assumed office as the Apostolic Nuncio in Ghana.

Eight Sisters of the Handmaids of Divine Redeemer (HDR), Accra Congregation who celebrated their Ruby and Silver Jubilees at the Mary Mother of Good Counsel Parish, Airport West, Accra on Tuesday, September 8, 2020. / ACI Africa

Never Look Back in Your Selfless Service, Nuns in Ghana Told at 40th Anniversary

Eight nuns of the Religious Order of the Handmaids of the Divine Redeemer (HDR) Accra, Ghana who marked 40 and...