Ghana’s bishops sound alarm as Church shrinks

The proportion of Catholics has fallen from 15.1% in 2000 to 10.1% in 2021.

The Catholic Church in Ghana needs to engage in “aggressive catechesis” after census figures showed it is shrinking rapidly, the president of the country’s bishops’ conference said Monday.

The Ghanaian Archdiocese of Accra’s Holy Spirit Cathedral. Pgallert via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 3.0).

In a Nov. 13 address at the bishops’ plenary assembly in Sunyani, west-central Ghana, Bishop Matthew K. Gyamfi noted that the proportion of Ghanaians identifying as Ca…