Realizing that the Freeze exercise had directly affected all religious organisations in the country, the orthodox churches took on the government. The religious leaders started a war path. . . .

So while the Mormons complied with the laws of the land, established churches fought with the government to correct the wrongs they had facilitated. . . .

Another important event occurred during the Freeze that is worth mentioning.

As stated above, one accusation that the Church had suffered, which was engineered by the other churches, is that the Church is a racist church and that no blacks are members of the Church in the United States: “Why do they come to Africa to proselyte blacks whilst, in their own country, there are no black members?”

So the Church had to bring one lady and one gentleman who are blacks from the USA to show the country that there are Church members who are black people, and there are many of them in America. These two representatives were Catherine M. Stokes of Chicago, Illinois, and Robert Stevenson of Atlanta, Georgia.

While Stokes and Stevenson were in Ghana, there was a television program for the black Church members to come and talk and bear their testimonies. I was one of the three participants. There were the two from the United States of America and myself.

This was during the Freeze. Stokes and Stevenson were invited to come to Ghana and to the TV show because the government had now repented. They knew they had made a mistake. This was when the government was now sort of trying to bring the Church back. So they wanted to now soften their ground and let the people begin to think differently. So they brought these two Church members from America to bear testimony.

The interviewer must have had certain instructions from the government to portray a positive interview of the Church. His questions were in that direction, that, “Oh, they say you do not have black members of the Church in America. Why do you come here?” Then the Church representatives would tell the experiences of the Church, say how untrue it is that there are no blacks in the Church and give some statistics of blacks in the Church, and what they’re doing in the Church.

Of course, it wasn’t going to be a live interview. They had to edit it because the government was actually at a crossroads. They did not want anything to be published that would let the government look silly. So, after the editing, it had to be censored. When it went to censorship, there was this question, “But really, if the people are like this, people would ask questions, ‘Why in the first place did you do that to them? Why did the government ban the Church if it has such good members?’” Then they must have thought, “It’s better not to talk about it. Just forget about it.” The show was never aired.

The news of the Freeze came with a big bang, and subsequent complex and wild ramifications followed, but there was no fanfare with the news of the return of the Church back into activity. Nevertheless, none of this array of lies triumphed forever. Jesus Christ and his true Church continue to flourish.