End-of-life care, death and funerals of the Asante: An ethical and theological vision (original) (raw)

I don't deserve. May his name forever be praised. more or less Protestant country. But it was when the British took over and colonized the then Gold Coast, that they brought with them Anglicanism, the official religion of England. This was followed by Methodism; then came the double form of Presbyterianism, one from Bremen in Germany and the other from Basel from Switzerland. 10 These two denominations of Christianity had a very great impact on the country. They had strongholds. Methodism established itself around Cape Coast in the Central Region and Presbyterianism settled in the Eastern Region, both claiming equal parts of the Greater Accra Region. 11 The Anglican Church remained a kind of urban Church. It is found in the big cities and its influence in the rural areas rather limited. The Catholic Church reappeared years after these three major denominations. The Catholics were back to Ghana in 1880 and the missionaries who brought Catholicism were French Alsatians. They began again from Elmina. 12 Twenty-five years afterwards, the White Fathers, especially from Canada, also penetrated Ghana but this time from the North. So there was a kind of two-pronged approach to evangelization, one from the South and one from the North. From Cape Coast, the Catholic Church spread to Keta where the Germans had also infiltrated, as it were, from Togo. The third place was in Kumasi. 13 The Christian Church has developed and improved tremendously from all aspects. Currently all the mainline Christian Churches have their own Ghanaian leaderships. There is hardly a Christian Church, the exception probably being the Salvation Army that has a White head. The Anglicans have about 6 dioceses; the Methodists have recently adopted the Episcopalian form