(LifeSiteNews) — African Catholic archbishops are sounding the alarm over Western efforts to indoctrinate Africans into homosexual lifestyles in what one prelate describes as a new kind of proselytism – one of “evil.”
Leading clerics from all across sub-Saharan Africa decried in exclusive interviews with the National Catholic Register the subversive attempts by Western NGOs, aid workers, and even tourists to promote LGBT ideology and lure Africans into homosexual activity for money.
“It’s just like the missionaries who went all over to evangelize,” said Archbishop Renatus Leonard Nkwande of Mwanza, Tanzania. Except now, he lamented, the West is “sending us missionaries of evil.”
The efforts are pervasive enough that archbishops from Kenya to Cameroon and Ghana to Tanzania are all testifying to similar problems, which reportedly include LGBTQ classroom indoctrination and gay sex parties.
Archbishop Charles Palmer-Buckle of Cape Coast, Ghana described to the Register how tourists will entice boys with money to pull them into homosexual activity.
“They’ve come to enjoy themselves, and they are messing with our little boys on the beach, sexually abusing them for a little money,” the archbishop said. “They themselves are already warped. And they are warping these (young people). It’s like, sorry to say, the devil trying to get more disciples.”
Archbishop Palmer-Buckle alluded to a growing phenomenon in Africa in which boys are paid money, which is little by American standards but astronomical by African standards, to be in homosexual pornography films. These boys are then sent to recruit others, for which they are paid even more.
The prelate said foreign aid-workers have also often promoted LGBT ideology in classrooms and other venues despite prohibitions in their charters on such activism.
When he has confronted NGO heads about this indoctrination, they have “abdicated” their responsibility for it, the archbishop told the Register.
“As a teacher, it is not your right to expose the child to that which is harmful to them in the long run, as if you are proselytizing,” he said.
Kenya’s encounters with activists for homosexuality echo that of Ghana: NGO staff promote LGBT ideology in schools and pay youth to engage in gay sex, according to clergy.
In Tanzania, gay pornography propositions have become so common that the Archdiocese of Mwanza launched a task force geared toward teaching youth how to deal with invitations to engage in immoral sexual activity.
“We have decided to do it because we have seen a number of people coming, gathering young people, and entertaining them,” Archbishop Leonard Nkwande said. “At the end, they are like that.”
His experience has also suggested that the Biden administration has been involved in promotion of homosexuality in his country. He told how Western NGOs have distributed lubricants used in gay sex in his archdiocese, an effort that he says was halted during the Trump administration but has grown during Biden’s presidential term.
This is consistent with the declaration of U.S. State Department spokesman John Kirby last year that so-called “LGBTQ+ rights” are a “core part” of U.S. foreign policy, and the December 2023 report that the U.S. had spent more than $4.1 billion in taxpayer money on LGBT-promoting initiatives around the world.
Uganda’s government has pushed back against these efforts, ordering a probe into NGO-run schools in 2023 due to “increasing cases of homosexuality and lesbianism in schools that have become conscription centers.”
In Tanzania’s capital, Dar es Salam, activists associated with a South African project funded by the Ford Foundation and other Western organizations were arrested and deported for “promoting homosexuality.”
The widespread reports indicate that this homosexual indoctrination is part of a large, coordinated plan, according to African archbishops.
“We don’t speak about it openly, but it’s intentional,” Archbishop Nkwande told the Register.
The West is not only corrupting Africans through on-the-ground efforts but through virtual influence via social media.
“When the missionaries came, they came with the Good News,” said Archbishop Muhatia, who is president of the Kenyan Conference of Catholic Bishops. “Now, the culture coming through social media is not good news. It is bad news.”
This is especially the case in places like Kenya, where more than 60 percent of residents have a smartphone, much more than in other parts of sub-Saharan Africa.
In Obala, Cameroon, Bishop Sosthène Léopold Bayemi Matjei said that online content from France, the former European colonizer of the African nation, is not only shaping young boys’ speech and dress – it is inspiring them to organize sex groups.
“These are things that I’ve never dreamt of,” he said. “But now we see that they are arriving.”
African Church leaders fiercely oppose this push for homosexuality, not because it opposes African “culture,” as is frequently stated, but because they consider it a moral scourge that drags souls to hell.
“It’s a complete misunderstanding of the stance of the African bishops,” said Archbishop Andrew Nkea Fuanya of the Bamenda Archdiocese in Cameroon.
“We are keeping the tradition of our one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church,” he said. “And any objections that we raise are objections to defend our faith as we received from our forefathers. It has nothing to do with ‘defending the culture of Africa.’ The African bishops don’t defend African culture. We defend the Catholic faith.”