{"id":229298,"date":"2026-04-02T02:30:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T00:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-traditional-african-religion-the-true-bastion-of-religious-tolerance-diversity-peace\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T02:30:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T00:30:04","slug":"ghana-traditional-african-religion-the-true-bastion-of-religious-tolerance-diversity-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-traditional-african-religion-the-true-bastion-of-religious-tolerance-diversity-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Traditional African Religion, the True Bastion of Religious Tolerance, Diversity, Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"51\">TRUE freedom of worship is only found in the traditions of our forefathers. That is why over the years they have embraced and allowed all manner of beliefs into their midst. Our deities allowed Christianity and Islam to fester and flourish to a point where these foreign beliefs have overtaken them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"87\">The expression of religion in our Ghanaian traditional sense is the true essence of spirituality where every household, clan or community evolved around a unique God concept. That is why an Anlo man&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604010705.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TRUE freedom of worship is only found in the traditions of our forefathers. That is why over the years they have embraced and allowed all manner of beliefs into their midst. Our deities allowed Christianity and Islam to fester and flourish to a point where these foreign beliefs have overtaken them. The expression of religion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":229299,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,4380,54069,19007,4508,4509,257,6157,16846,7994,254,11874,9464,7419],"class_list":["post-229298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-bastion","tag-diversity","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-news","tag-peace","tag-religion","tag-religious","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tolerance","tag-traditional","tag-true"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}