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Ghana: Government restores teaching of religious education

President John Kufuor has directed the Education Ministry to provide for Religious and Moral Education under the new school curriculum, reports CISA News.

He suggested that the ministry should set up a committee to work out a partnership between the government and religious bodies to include the subject in the curriculum.

This, he added, was necessary to help achieve the goal of turning out not only knowledgeable people, but also with acceptable moral behaviour.

"At the end of the day, we must admit that a human being of quality must be the one imbued with a fair balance of knowledge and morality. This must be the real object of education." The president made the announcement in his Independence Parade speech last Thursday.

The Catholic bishops of Ghana were among those who protested against the exclusion of the Religious and Moral Education from the school curriculum. The bishops had warned that exclusion of the subject meant the religious and moral decay of the Ghanaian society as a whole.

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