Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has opened up about his Catholic faith and being a member of the Freemasonry fraternity.

Speaking in an interview on the Dalay Show on December 6, 2025, the former president indicated that he was originally not a Catholic.

He said that he started practising the Catholic faith because of the influence of his wife and children.

“My wife was a chorister. She was a Catholic and took my household to church, Christ the King. I was not a Catholic, but from the way things were going, I converted to join them.

“My children told me that all the parents and their classmates attend the church, but I always drop them off and leave. So, I thought of this and said that we serve the same God whether we attend the Anglican, the Methodist, or the Catholic church, so I joined them. I became a practicing Catholic after this,” he said.

On how he became a Freemason, Kufuor said he joined the fraternity because of a number of his close relations, including his friends and family.

“I joined the Freemasons in 1967 as a young lawyer. I joined them because members of my family — my uncle and my senior brother — as well as our friends, were all masons,” he said.

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The former president refuted assertions that the Freemasonry fraternity was an occult which engages in all forms of rituals and is the same as the Illuminati.

He indicated that although the actions of the fraternity might be mysterious, they engage in nothing evil.

“People are likely to be afraid of what they do not know. You see us wearing black ties, bowing with some of us holding [sic], singing when we are going to bury someone… people say we are going to resurrect the person, but it is not the truth.”



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