Author name: SVD Ghana

In 2012 as the Ghana Province planned activities to mark the 75 years of the presence of the SVD in Ghana for the following year (exact date of 13th October), Fr. General and his Council threw a challenge to us in the province to consider opening a mission in Liberia as part of marking the

Because of ordinations in Koforidua and Donkorkrom on 4th July our date for first vows has been moved from Saturday 4th July to Sunday 5th July. Venue remains at Nkwatia

The SVD Superior General in Rome has appointed Very Rev. Fr. George Angmor as the provincial elect of Ghana Province of the Divine Word Missionaries for the 2014-2017 triennium. He assumes office from the 31st May 2014. The process of electing a vice provincial and the consultors is in progress.Fr. Angmor was the vice provincial. (read

The mortal remains of our confrere Br. Tarcisius, SVD the founder of the Orthopaedic Training Centre,(OTC) at Adoagyiri who died on the 15th of January 2014 was laid to rest after a funeral liturgy at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church at Adoagyiri. Brother Tarcisius (Christopher Adrianus) de Ruyter was born in the Netherlands on December 4,

Accra, – Most Rev. Frank Nubuasah, SVD, Bishop of Francistown, Botswana, has ordained six priests with a call on them to  listen to the promptings of the Holy Spirit and be obedient to Him.  The ordination took place at the Ss. Peter and Paul Catholic Church at New Aplaku in the Catholic Archdiocese of Accra.The

At the dawn of Sunday, 18 August 2013 our beloved and great missionary in the Ghana Province Fr. Martin Wels was called to Glory in our retirement house St. Wendel – Germany. In the presence of some of our confreres he peacefully handed his life over to his creator. He was 91 years old. BURIAL

In front of the altar laid the two SVD missionaries, Bishop Joseph Oliver Bowers 102 years facing Brother Samuel Adjei, 51 in the Cathedral of Holy Spirit, Accra on Friday 9th Nov. At the funeral was a huge number of the clergy and religious; all the members of the Ghana Catholic Bishops Conference including the