Ghana Archives

Girls still face obstacles in education, Ghanaian official says

Catholic News Service, Church in Africa
Oct 27, 2019

A Ghanaian government official used a Catholic girls’ school celebration to emphasize the need to educate girls as well as boys.

Catholic teachers urge Ghana to remove sex ed program from schools

Catholic News Service, Church in Africa
Oct 20, 2019

Catholic teachers in Ghana have joined the bishops’ conference and Muslim organizations in urging the government to withdraw a sex education program from the national school curriculum.

Catholic aid agency works to improve public sanitation in Ghana

Church in Africa
Oct 12, 2019

Ghana’s rapid urbanization means Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is shifting resources to hygiene and sanitation, as the number of people without access to toilets increases to over 5 million.

Ghana’s faith-based community learns how to recycle hazardous e-waste

Catholic News Service, Church in Africa
Aug 27, 2019

Caritas Ghana, the development agency of the Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference, organized a workshop for faith-based organizations to help employees learn how to safely and effectively dispose of electronic waste.

Despite political stability, Ghana still suffering effects of corruption

Church in Africa, Interviews
Jul 31, 2019

Compared to other African countries, Ghana has been relatively stable following the transition to democratic rule in 1992. But Ghana has yet to tackle widespread corruption and ranks as number 81 out of 180 countries in Transparency International’s 2017 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI).

Ghanaian archbishop asks Christians to have modest wedding ceremonies

Catholic News Service, Church in Africa
Jul 16, 2019

A Ghanaian archbishop called on Christians to be modest in the celebration of weddings, noting that pressure on young people to have expensive weddings is partly to blame for couples living together without marrying.