The Ghana Catholic Bishops' Conference & Christian Council of Ghana have shared their concensus on the ongoing debate over religious freedom in Christian-founded schools.

The church leaders explained that when they "we insist on maintaining the Christian identity, practices, and ethos of the schools we founded," they are not assuming a position "rooted in hostility towards other faiths, but in a desire to preserve the integrity of institutions we have built and nurtured for over a century - a mission that touches history, law, culture, educational philosophy, and the church's foundational role in Ghana".

Founding 

The conference and council emphasised their rights to preserve the Christian identity and culture of missionary schools by highlighting their origins.

They said they founded, built and run the educational institutions successfully way before the founding of the nation Ghana, and "when the government began assisting us - primarily by paying teacher salaries and regulating curricula - it joined an already functioning system". 

To the argument that missionary schools enjoying taxpayer funding should be operated like a secular or multi-faith entity, the church leaders stressed, "State support, therefore, is a partnership, not a takeover. The ownership and identity of these schools reside with us. Government assistance does not diminish this identity, nor does it confer the right to alter the core religious character that defines these institutions."