The Secretary General of the Samoa Council of Churches, Reverend Ma'auga Motu, said the country's constitution must more clearly recognise Christianity and that Islam should be banned.
He said Islam poses a threat, despite only 0.03 percent of the country professing to be Muslim at the 2001 census.
But the General Secretary of the PCC, the region's grouping of Christian denominations, Reverend Francois Pihaatae, argued that the focus needs to be on dialogue.
"To create first that space where everybody can come in and discuss and dialogue," he said.