We’re not seeking mosques in mission schools, only the right to pray and fast - Muslim Conference

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  • Shopping made easy 8 months ago

    UK-GHANA SHOPPER gets you whatever you need from UK or Ghana in just days. Both personal and trade goods are couriered both ways. Talk of convenience where u live in Ghana and shop in the UK and pay cedis to get your UK goods ...
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  • Kwaku Tee 8 months ago

    We are aware that per the Koran, the weak,sick or ppl affected by certain problems can be exempted from fasting. Illiteracy among Muslims girls is so high and they need education. Ghana can there4 see it as a War that needs ...
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  • Dah 8 months ago

    The more you people keep at this the more you expose yourselves as people who misplace their priorities and then try to dominate the fruits someone else’s priorities. Are you not ashamed? Where are your own schools? Don’t ...
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  • FRANKIE 8 months ago

    Chief imam, you're not being truthful. Umaru Sanda of Citi FM is leading a crusade to build a mosque in Tema secondary school, his alma mater. He has boycotted all old students activities because the PTA and the school author ...
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  • Kwame King 8 months ago

    Is it the heart or the hijab that makes one a good Muslim? Somebondy based on his or weather introduces a religion to you and made u change everything including ur outfit. And in 21st century that has become ur focal point. A ...
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  • don`t care !!! © 8 months ago

    If you are not seeking mosques in mission schools, then please for the seek of peace! "SEEK PEACE IN THE PLACE OF PRAYER, fasting in the school. The school authorities run the school according to their schedules and programs. ...
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  • Muslims n Christians are friends in Ghana stop your stupidity 8 months ago

    Your prostitute mother with a smelly must hv slept with a pig, that brought you

  • Tordia 8 months ago

    Is Temasco a mission school?

  • gh leaders don't have sense 8 months ago

    No need to build a mosque in a high-school just offer the muskim students a safe space to pray and break their fast..Wesley girls must do the same..I dont understand what this missionary position school is trying to hold unto ...
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  • Karikakchar 8 months ago

    Wesley Girls is a mission school and all the students follow the same routine. What do you think account for their success? They have a tried and tested system if you don't fit you quit!

  • Muba 8 months ago

    Frankie, are you that damn! If you read Umar Sanda article well. You won’t be writing staff like this.

  • Esi 8 months ago

    Go to makaranta indeed.

  • Kojo 8 months ago

    The Muslims are calmly making a simple request which is fully backed by the constitution and human right. The request is firmly grounded in law. But the mission schools and social media commentators are responding with emotio ...
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  • Ama 8 months ago

    What is calm about what was sent to the supreme court. Demanding rights in someone else's school.
    This issues could have been handled maturely, then concessions would be made for the Moslems in the spirit of the unity and t ...
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  • Karikakchar 8 months ago

    Which constitution? Your parochial interpretation. Wesley Girls is a mission school and all the students follow the same routine. What do you think account for their success? They have a tried and tested system if you don't f ...
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  • Godfred 8 months ago

    Your argument is dead in arrival because the mission schools is also fighting for the same constitutional rights you want. Who wins then?

  • Kutu 7 months ago

    These guys like to preach virtues but practice vices.Go to the Zongos and Muslim dominated areas and see the crime that engulf them.Instead of working on your youth to be law abiding and have respect, look at the things are a ...
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  • The Spear 8 months ago

    Very, Very hypocritical Muslims. Selfishness is their middle name. When it's in their interests, they cover their hatred.

    Didn't the Koran say Muslims shouldn't take Christians as friends? What are they doing in Christian ...
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  • Dah 8 months ago

    @Spear, 100%. We know what they are doing in Nigeria, Egypt, Indonesia, etc. Just awful horrible people. Nasty. Inhumane

  • Kob 7 months ago

    The Muslims should stop spending their money on going to Mecca to walk around a stone and use those moneis they waste in developing themselves properly and building schools and stop worrying people's ears.You can't eat your c ...
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  • Do you know what human and constitutional right are 8 months ago

    Because our religion teaches us that there is no compulsion in religion and our constitution guarantees us the freedom of conscience and freedom to practice our faith in every public space in Ghana. And Wesley Girls is a publ ...
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  • Dah 8 months ago

    @Do you know, rubbish: those who founded the mission schools pay more than enough taxes to cover their schools and yours. Why can’t you just go to your own schools?

  • Kwame 8 months ago

    Hw3 ne gyimii. The church provided it for 190yrs .choose Muslim schools for your children wati

  • Blue Pen 8 months ago

    WGHS is not a public school. It is a Methodist Church school that is assisted by the state. State assistance does not mean state takeover. Go build your own Mohammed Girls High School.

    They claim an inch of space at a time ...
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  • Abinziki 8 months ago

    Are there no other schools for Muslim girls to attend. The Christian Mission schools are there to bring up their children in the Christian beliefs. So what does a moslem want from those schools, then to ask for their belief ...
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  • Hamid 7 months ago

    The Muslim schools equally have subvention from government.None forces any to choose Christian mission schools.You either do what we do in our mission schools or take a transfer to Muslim schools were you can decide to pray a ...
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  • Star from the North 8 months ago

    The NDC government must be careful not to annoy the Christians population with this bogus demands from the Muslim community. If the churches comes together to fight the government for forcing them to adhere to Muslim students ...
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  • JESUS IS GOD 8 months ago

    Jesus Christ loves you and wants to save you from sin and its consequences. He died on the cross for your sins, was buried, and rose again on the third day. Believe in Him, accept His gift of forgiveness, and receive eternal ...
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  • Kwasi Addai 8 months ago

    No Muslim school in Ghana allows non-muslims to practice their religion in the school. Muslims think they are above the laws of the country. Why don’t you send them into your own schools?

  • Owan Yaw aka Lisiemine Ubi 8 months ago

    Christian mission schools should hold on firm and not budge on this matter. Ghana Catholic Bishops Conference and the Christian Council of Ghana should consider this a nonnegotiable decision. President Mahama and Min. of Educ ...
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  • Do you know what human and constitutional right are 8 months ago

    Great that is what is needed to solve this problem. You cannot continue to take government and tax payers money and still want to behave like an exclusive private Christian club. Stop talking government money to run these sch ...
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  • Dah 8 months ago

    @Do you know, stop posting your rubbish: those who founded the mission schools pay more than enough taxes to cover their schools and yours. Why can’t you just go to your own schools?

  • John 8 months ago

    Your insistence to have your way in mission schools is making many Christians apprehensive.Many Ghanaians are so suspicious of you Muslims becoming terrorists bcoz of this behaviour. That's is how it started in Europe and USA ...
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  • France has banned the wearing of hijab in public places. Ghanaian Christians should wake up. 8 months ago

    Will the Muslims schools serve pork if Christian students request to add that to their meals chart? The minority Muslims in Ghana have been allowed to gradually take over the country. Look at the composition of the parliamen ...
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  • Well said. The truth must be told. 8 months ago

    In any country where the minority decides to concentrate power in their hands only at the detriment of the majority is a recipe for disaster in waiting.

  • Blue Pen 8 months ago

    What do you use government financial assistance for? You use to embark on pilgrimage to Mecca annually, while you conveniently forget about building excellent schools for your children. If you want to attend a Mission school, ...
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  • Abinziki 8 months ago

    And who forced the government to be part of the mission schools. They're managing their schools very well before the government decided to interfere

  • Accra 8 months ago

    True. Sensible submission.

  • Mawuli 8 months ago

    When u get money. I travel to Saudi Arabia. Who shd use his money to build school for u?

  • Dah 8 months ago

    Don’t mind the aggressive leeches and parasites

  • Vivacious 8 months ago

    They are Government ASSISTED not Government OWNED schools.

  • Aboabo 8 months ago

    Build some for it to be assisted

  • Nyamekeh 8 months ago

    The minister of education is a hypocrite, when the girls hair cut issue came to the media, He said we would allow it happen in the school because the school has rules. But when this issue came he said school has no right. My ...
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  • School 8 months ago

    But,why now?I went to school with Muslims, and these problems were not there,in the 90s.
    If you check the background of these girls,I don't think they are Ghana Muslims, perhaps, they are from Nigeria, Niger or Mali ,rear Gh ...
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  • Nii Adjei 8 months ago

    This are the characters of Muslims. Let your children go to macaroni to train as Muslims. When you go to Rome you do what Roman's do. No muslim prayiers at Christian schools period.

  • FACT 8 months ago

    NO RELIGIOUS COMPROMISES IN MISSION SCHOOLS
    The religious organization which establishes an institution can't allow the intrusion of any other religion into that institution.
    THE STUDENT MUST CHOOSE THE SCHOOL THAT TOLERAT ...
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  • Oko 8 months ago

    Mass why you don't your so called constitutional rights to the security service. Every institution has itt code of conduct

  • Ben 8 months ago

    In the school I attended morning devotions are held and after that all academic related announcements are made.If you are not present disadvantaged
    What about Christian school anthems .
    School mottos also reflect identitie ...
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  • Maame 8 months ago

    I attended a Catholic school in Wa. Though a Catholic School, it has a good number of Muslim students. We got along really well.
    Our Friday uniform has the picture of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Holy Spirit. I now w ...
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  • Kofi Ghana 8 months ago

    These are interesting times indeed...

    What if a Budhist also comes and says he wants the right to pray in these Missions school? Then the ECKANKA and the likes. What if our traditional worshippers also come and tell us the ...
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  • Eiii 8 months ago

    Don’t create problems fffor the schools. If they engage in fasting and they collapse or die who will you blame?

  • Christian Genocide in Nigeria interpreted as Allah’s will 8 months ago

    Mohamed will mislead many

  • Esa 8 months ago

    Build schools for your kids instead of conflicts in the north. Ghana is a Christian country. Always wanting to impose your ideas. Stop attending Christian schools.

  • Jk 8 months ago

    Internal disciplines will be weak if Muslims are allow to practice in mission schools but should also not be forced for Christian religion however all school gatherings should be compulsory

  • Kwame 8 months ago

    Don't choose Christian schools for your children.

  • Almashood 8 months ago

    If that is the case, traditional religious students also has the right to practice their faith by also establishing shrines in any School they attend in Ghana

  • Gh 8 months ago

    They are not requesting to build anything in the mission schools. They are only demanding their right to prayer and fasting. These two do not harm the mission schools in anyway.

  • Bitter truth 8 months ago

    And the mission schools are saying they cannot accept that, why can’t these uncivilized Muslims go to Muhammed secondary school? But choose Christian schools and come here with their nonesense

  • Maame 8 months ago

    I hope Muslims know the meaning of Christian. Christian means followers of Jesus. So Muslims, your children are attend followers of Jesus School. Mohammed should be turning in his grave.

  • Build your own! 8 months ago

    Go build your own schools or attend those built by the Ahmadiyas, fellow moslems who you despise!

  • Dah 8 months ago

    @Helen, 100%. We know what they are doing in Nigeria, Egypt, Indonesia, etc. Just awful horrible people. Nasty. Inhumane

  • Kwasi Addai 8 months ago

    Do you give non-muslims in your schools to practise their religion?

  • Atans 8 months ago

    Stop married 5 and 6 wives, and also going to mecca with government support every year, use some of those your resources to build schools, hospitals for yourself .
    We are seeing you and what you can do in Northern Nigeria, s ...
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  • Samuel Hanson 8 months ago

    They are training terrorists
    Just wait till they're 50% in parliament

  • Carlos 8 months ago

    Under this hijab and shit this girls are spoil as hell,The school should start serving pork and problem solved

  • Kennedy Agyepong camp 8 months ago

    We told you so. Hahahahahaha. Hahahahahahahaha. Who are the infidels? Hahahaha. Didn't we tell you.

  • Dr Ali Awudu 8 months ago

    Establish your schools, and fast there. Who will be responsible for your kids from that 40 day so called populist fasting?

  • Arugba 8 months ago

    Why should mission school admit Muslim students in the first place?? Isn't it foolishness?? And now see the problem they created for themselves. When they get sense then part of their admission requirements should be being Ch ...
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  • Prof 8 months ago

    You better stop this state support argument. The state supports Manhyia palace, does that make the palace a public place where all Ghanaian tax payers can go and practice their tradition. Your children are always coming to sc ...
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  • Trump 8 months ago

    Build schools not mosques. Build schools not mosques. Build schools not mosques . Build schools not mosques. Build schools not mosques. Build schools not mosques. Build schools not mosques. Build schools not mosques.

  • Mosque vrs School 8 months ago

    You have a school which you don't want to attend. You rather want to attend someone's school, and wants the school owner to change his rules to make you feel comfortable in his school. Where can you hear this nonsense if not ...
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  • Methodist church must be firm and ridged even more 8 months ago

    Why don’t you send your wards to makaranta and stop worrying Christians with good schools? Now you’re asking the missionary schools to allow you to practice your full religion next time yoh will tell them to provide you w ...
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  • Mat 8 months ago

    WGHS has achieved academic excellence through time based discipline of students.
    5 times prayer a day, and fasting when the school needs students to be comfortable to study, will have effects of the excellence they want for ...
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  • Mk 8 months ago

    What at all do these people want from Wesley Girls and Ghana. We can’t allow them to Controle us with their Marshall law and their foreign sponsored agender. Politics is what is causing all these. Why are they refusing to g ...
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  • Loyalist 8 months ago

    Some people still don't get it. Christians in Ghana belongs to different doctorines. SDA and Methodist's doctorines have differences. That is why I keep saying this is not about Christians and Muslims but schools rules and st ...
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  • OGyam 8 months ago

    @Loyalist, do Christians anywhere in the world make a big deal about fasting during Lent? No. Moslems are the only ones constantly shoving their nonsensical Arab Cultural Vanity imposed on them by the Moslem invaders on us.. ...
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  • Bazz 8 months ago

    This shouldnt tear us apart, already small spaces are provided for Moslems students in most SSS schools who go there to pray and it's cool, other Christian denomination also meet to pray, let's continue this either it's a mis ...
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  • Ransom 8 months ago

    It's simple to noted that Christian Schools should remain as such likewise Muslim Schools.
    If it is about faith practicing, then parents should do the needful during school selection and stop disturbing the peace in the name ...
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  • Kofi 8 months ago

    Adhere to the schools code of ethics rules and regulations governing the them

  • J.C. 8 months ago

    Aren't government of Ghana uses tax payers money to subsidice your Hajj to mecca.

  • Kwabena 8 months ago

    Your school is there You hate Christians killing Christians all over the world are we able to go to Your school and do the same it's a mission school

  • Observer 8 months ago

    If you are so concerned about right to pray send your children to your mission schools, nothing prevents the state to support them. Today you are looking for a place to pray, tomorrow your people will be asking for something ...
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  • Kwabena Gyam 8 months ago

    This is a very sensitive issue that should be settled out of court. It is not just Wesley Girls. There are several elementary schools established by churches which have trained many of different faith. There are also several ...
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  • Bitter truth 8 months ago

    Massa stop the nonesense..we have entertained these Muslims nonesense for way too long..who the hell are these Muslims? Why can’t they build standard schools for their kids since religion is more important to Muslims than c ...
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  • Bitter truth 8 months ago

    And Christian schools says no u cannot pray and fast in Christian schools so just go look for a Muslims school and send your kids..u send all your money to Mecca therefore cannot build standards schools for your kids..Christi ...
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  • Citizen 8 months ago

    You can come to Christian schools so long as your intention is not to come and change us.

  • Araba 8 months ago

    Why not have your own schools where you can fast and pray without problem?

  • Kk 8 months ago

    Go and build your schools and pray there. We dont want you to go and call any demons and contaminate the atmosphere of Christ in the school. Go and build your schools. Simplicita!!!

  • Tony 8 months ago

    Christians don't complain when the state spends taxpayers money to assist Muslims to go on the pilgrimage to Mecca. This talk of taxpayers money being used to assist mission schools should stop.

  • Ntsiful 8 months ago

    The Muslims must know that Christians also fast especially during lent and advent but the churches do not compel their members in schools especially at the SHS level and below to fast even as they are in schools.
    SO STUDENTS ...
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  • Fried rice 8 months ago

    Small small they’re get a foothold and your Mission school will be turned into Muslim school….England is facing a serious crisis

  • Abi 8 months ago

    All these are unnecessary fights just build ur own school.if u can't take Bible to Saudi then why are u saying she should be accepted in a mission school.see no wonder u are still fighting among urself in the north.pls let's ...
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  • Tipu 8 months ago

    What did King Kofi Kakari say in the history books. This is my country and these are my laws. Those who will not obey my laws should leave my country. Moslems are making too much noise.As for hypocrites Haranu Idrisu.,his pr ...
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  • Jubilee House Rat. 8 months ago

    If the muslin will allow into their mosque to do they would, then, there should not be any restrictions on either side of the Dogmas.

  • Jubilee House Rat. 8 months ago

    Christians• to do whatever they want• correction fixed

  • These are children! 8 months ago

    These are children under 18 who are in school to be educated. They are not old enough to marry, drink alcohol or smoke. They can’t vote because they are considered immature. If they refuse blood transfusion in hospital, doc ...
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  • Tomorrow, their faces will be covered like terrorists! 8 months ago

    Majority of Ghanaians don’t like the way moslems bring up children to be disruptive and violent. That’s calling a spade a spade. Why is it that an inordinately large proportion of disruptive youth are moslem, given their ...
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  • Ujah 8 months ago

    This is funny, guys don't insult yourselves n blame the one who interpreted it. Be wise enough to know that. The Muslims schools in Ghana has their way of running those schools n same to Christian schools, how can a normal m ...
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  • Louis 8 months ago

    I attended a Catholic school called Bishop Herman College in the 1970s. I shared a cubicle in my House with a Muslim called Salisu. His brother Sanusi was in another House on campus. Salifu never attended Mass nor prayed toge ...
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  • ABREWA 8 months ago

    Praying and fasting is for Church and Mosques, not Schools.
    It should be private, not public.
    Students can pray anytime while in school but can fast at home during holidays as
    pertains in the Koran.
    Even the Saudis ...
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  • Frederick kofi Tawiah 8 months ago

    The Anthoney general must resign and prosecute. Because he has brought conflict among Ghanaians societies by blague wars. So he must get arrested by any security agencies.

  • Osei Kwabena 8 months ago

    Muslims should not hide under the carpet. If a mission schools receive supports from the government doesn't give the Muslims the right to disobey the rules and regulations of the mission schools. The mission schools have been ...
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  • GPS 8 months ago

    Fasting and praying is ok even covering your hair is not a problem. Let the court and paliament decide.

  • Muslim minority shouldn't be allowed to take over the country. 8 months ago

    France and several European countries have banned the wearing of hijab in public places. Ghanaian Christians should wake up.

    Will the Muslims schools serve pork if Christian students request to add that to their meals char ...
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  • Agya Koo 8 months ago

    In UK Catholic schools don't accept Muslims at all even though the government fund the schools. The first admit Catholics before other Christians. They're the good schools around funded by the government they admit Catholics ...
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  • nii ga 8 months ago

    FOOOOOLS BUILD YOUR SCHOOOLS INSTEAD OF THOSE
    STUPID MOSQUE USED TO DISTURB US EVERYDAY...NKWASIAFUO