Additionally, the public school curriculum includes 30 minutes daily of religious instruction, the content of which is agreed upon by the Christian churches. Students whose parents do not wish them to attend the class are excused. The Government, however, does not subsidize church schools that do not align their curriculums with governmental criteria. There is mutual understanding between the Government and the churches but no formal Memorandum of Understanding. Although theoretically non-Christian religions can be taught in the schools, there is no such instruction at present.
Some foreign missionaries continue to work in country.
However, with the exception of the Roman Catholic Church, whose clergy is about 50 percent indigenous, the clergy of the other traditional churches is indigenous. There are also nontraditional religious missionaries present for short periods as lecturers or speakers, such as the Baha'is, Pentecostals, and Muslims. There are no government-sponsored ecumenical activities. There was no change in the status of respect for religious freedom during the period covered by this report. There were no reports of religious detainees or prisoners.