Regarding Muslims who study in Catholic schools, Bishop Paganelli specifies that “the majority of them, frequenting our schools, which have a lot of prestige, thank God, come into contact with Christianity, with priests, and at a certain point they ask baptism and take a catechumenal course at the school itself. Generally, there is no opposition from parents.”
In fact, he highlighted, “we say that there is very good religious tolerance in Sierra Leone. This is one of the most beautiful things that we can export to the world, not only diamonds, gold, other minerals.”
Regarding the “only serious problem” he has had, the prelate explained that it was with the Muslim tribal chiefs, “because they wanted Catholic schools in each village, but I could not build a Catholic school in each village, it was impossible, there were already 400. a very large number.”