Bishop John Opoku-Agyemang of Ghana’s Catholic Diocese of Konongo-Mampong delivered a pointed homily this week at a joint ecumenical service in Accra, warning that Western sexual ethics are eroding Christian moral standards across Ghana — and drawing a direct line between sexual permissiveness, abortion, materialism, and corruption.
“Our society today runs away from Godly and Biblical sexual ethics. We have easily accepted worldly sexual ethics that for us sex is nothing but pleasure,” the bishop said.
He linked that shift directly to the devaluation of human life. “Today, we are living in a world where children are regarded as burdens to us… and therefore, abortion is normal,” he said.
The bishop also addressed the corruption he sees spreading through Ghanaian society. “We corrupt ourselves and even allow the system to be corrupted so that we can get a way through and make ends meet,” he said. “As long as we get what we want, we can even eliminate another human being without our conscience disturbing us in any way.”
He warned that permissive sexual content was increasingly visible in public spaces and social media, and urged Christians to resist the push to normalize LGBT ideology alongside abortion. He called for a return to lived Christian witness: “We want to be called Christians here in Ghana — may that become possible for us to become true Christians and produce true and good fruits.”
Bishop Opoku-Agyemang is articulating what the Global South has been saying consistently at international forums: the package of values being exported from the West — sexual permissiveness, abortion normalization, and gender ideology — is a single ideological system, not a collection of unrelated policy preferences, and its consequences are inseparable.