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The Catholic Church in Ghana has, in an isolated ceremony cut sod for the construction of a new Friary (CURIA) for the Franciscan Friars and is expected to house  the Parish Priest of the St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church- Anyaa in the Archdiocese of Accra. The groundbreaking ceremony was manned by the Most Rev John Bonaventure Kwofie, Metropolitan Archbishop of Accra and Apostolic Administrator of the Sekondi Takoradi Diocese on Wednesday May 6, 2020 with call on the community to rededicate their lives to christ through the church and live in unity. Present at the ceremony were the Assistant General for Africa, Friar Kutiero Bezo, the Vicar Provincial Custos, Friar EugeneAntwi Boasiako, the secretary to the Archbishop, Rev. Father Anthony Agnes and some other Franciscan Friars ,  the P.P.C Chairman of the St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church-Anyaa, Lawyer Richard Dery, the Church Pastoral Council Chairman of St. Clare of Assisi, Mr. ...

John-Sebastian Laird-Hammonda, a member of the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in America has become the first person to die of the novel coronavirus in the District, Rev Fr Larry Dunham, superior of the Monastery confirmed on Saturday March 21. Fr Dunham also revealed that, the Friar who was a Deacon often battled nausea after his treatments for leukemia but had seemed in to be in some of the best health earlier in February with a twist turn on him being diagnosed of the deadly coronavirus On his part, the Deacon had been at the monastery since the late 1980s and had for the last 14 years run its day-to-day operations as the business manager and  had recently been approved for a transfer to an order in New York, where he was going to be involved in fundraising efforts for missions in Central America. “It was going to be like a whole new focus and life for him,” he said. “That was to be his new assignment that never quite materialized”, he said. Mayor M...