Abstract
Generally, the Church has played a critical role in Ghana’s drive towards democratic maturity. The Christian Council of Ghana, one of the foremost and well respected umbrella Christian Church Organizations makes a positive contribution to Ghana’s democratic consolidation process. As part of a broader civil society, the Christian Council, in spite of its financial challenges, has played a democracy-supporting role of fighting authoritarianism and contributing to the nurturing of democracy in Ghana when it was attained. So, what is the Christian Council of Ghana’s mission? What specific role has the Council played in fighting authoritarian regimes since independence? How has the Council contributed to democratic nurturing, maturity and consolidation in Ghana? These are the critical issues that the paper seeks to address using a qualitative research approach that largely thrives on secondary sources of information and views gleaned from interviews with persons associated with the Christian Council
Highlights
Ghanaians are regarded as notoriously “churchical” and church activities are organized and attended by many Ghanaians almost every day of the weak
The Christian Council of Ghana (CCG) was established in 1929 to serve as an ecumenical organization that brings together member churches in an attempt to help offer some solutions to the spiritual, political and socio-economic challenges that confronts the church in Ghana [38,39]
The CCG has over the years worked together with the Catholic Bishops’ Conference on several sociocultural, economic and political issues in Ghana
Summary
Ghanaians are regarded as notoriously “churchical” and church activities are organized and attended by many Ghanaians almost every day of the weak. In discussing Ghana’s democracy, scholars have generally focused on the role of elections, political parties, and civil society. Ghana’s drive towards democratic consolidation and maturity is be contingent on the extent to which civil society and identifiable groups like the Christian Council of Ghana are respected, tolerated and allowed to contribute to shape the democratic and political landscape of the country. How influential civil society groups are and the extent to which they are listened to by political elites and allowed to complement the role of the state as argued by Bratton [36] is a critical yardstick in measuring their effectiveness as well as the extent to which a democracy may be said to have been consolidated and matured. What is the vision of this august body and how has its activities contributed to democratic consolidation in Ghana? The subsequent sections would answer these questions
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