Accra, 22 February, 2025 / 8:03 pm (ACI Africa).
Members of the Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference (GCBC) are decrying an “upsurge in social vices” and the reluctance or failure of some of the country’s government officials to honour the Church-State partnership.
In his speech at the National Education Forum that concluded on February 19, GCBC Vice President, who accepted the government’s apology for initially excluding Christian leaders from the convention also voiced concerns about a lack of cooperation from a section of education directors with the Catholic Church.
“The upsurge in social vices and corrupt practices in the country is a great source of worry to the Church,” Bishop Emmanuel Kofi Fianu of Ghana’s Catholic Diocese of Ho said on February 19, the last of the two-day convention.
Bishop Kofi added, “The Church wishes to emphasize religious, moral, ethical, and civic education that will lead to the production of responsible and productive citizens and not just knowledgeable and skillful individuals who will be social misfits.”
The Ghanaian member of the Society of the Divine Word (SVD) further lamented “the non-compliance by some politicians and government appointees with the partnership that exists between the government and the Catholic Church in the provision of education in the country” saying that this situation “poses serious worries to us, the Catholic Church.”