The Catholic return to Elmina in 1880: how two SMA priests restarted the church in Ghana
Catholic worship first came to the Gold Coast with the Portuguese at Elmina in the fifteenth century but ended after the Dutch took the castle. In…
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Cardinal Peter Turkson: from a Wassa mining town to the Vatican’s top offices
Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson, born in 1948 in Nsuta in Ghana's Western Region, became Archbishop of Cape Coast in 1992 and Ghana's first cardinal in 2003.…
Thomas Birch Freeman: the Methodist missionary who built Cape Coast’s first chapel and went to Kumasi
Thomas Birch Freeman, born in England in 1809 to an African father and an English mother, arrived on the Gold Coast in January 1838 as a…
The first Methodist missionary to the Gold Coast died within six months. Thomas Birch Freeman stayed for more than fifty years
Methodism reached the Gold Coast in January 1835, when Joseph Dunwell landed at Cape Coast. He died that June. Thomas Birch Freeman, who arrived in 1838,…