{"id":207385,"date":"2024-07-22T13:53:47","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T17:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=207385"},"modified":"2024-07-22T15:59:35","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T19:59:35","slug":"archbishop-of-canterbury-sorry-for-slavery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/archbishop-of-canterbury-sorry-for-slavery\/","title":{"rendered":"Archbishop of Canterbury sorry for slavery"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"antig-573800433\" class=\"antig-ecab antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/discoverflow.co\/web\/antigua\" aria-label=\"ANU CVP Digital Broadband 1200x400_1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1201\/h:401\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"  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sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" width=\"1200\" height=\"400\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong><em>BY JASON CROSS&nbsp;&#8211; JAMAICA OBSERVER<\/em><\/strong><\/p><div id=\"antig-1173206336\" class=\"antig-content_5 antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ablpag\" aria-label=\"Full-ABLP-Team-Digital-Billboard-1920x1080px\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1920\/h:1080\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Full-ABLP-Team-Digital-Billboard-1920x1080px.jpg\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1920\/h:1080\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Full-ABLP-Team-Digital-Billboard-1920x1080px.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:169\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Full-ABLP-Team-Digital-Billboard-1920x1080px.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1024\/h:576\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Full-ABLP-Team-Digital-Billboard-1920x1080px.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:768\/h:432\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Full-ABLP-Team-Digital-Billboard-1920x1080px.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1536\/h:864\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Full-ABLP-Team-Digital-Billboard-1920x1080px.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>A <strong>riveting apology for the Church of England\u2019s participation in slavery came on Sunday from the Right Honourable Justin Welby, the archbishop of Canterbury who was guest preacher at the celebration of the 200th anniversary of the Anglican Diocese of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a 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of the church.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jamaicaobserver.com\/2024\/07\/20\/its-a-crime\/\"><\/a><\/p><div id=\"antig-1919637256\" class=\"antig-content antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.antiguabarbudaculinarymonth.com\/\" aria-label=\"culinary\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1920\/h:843\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/culinary-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1920\/h:843\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/culinary-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:132\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/culinary-scaled.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1024\/h:450\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/culinary-scaled.jpg 1024w, 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We are deeply, deeply, deeply sorry. <\/p><div id=\"antig-837220408\" class=\"antig-content_2 antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.courts.com\/antigua\/\" aria-label=\"IMG_0783\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:500\/h:500\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IMG_0783.png\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:500\/h:500\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IMG_0783.png 500w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:300\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IMG_0783.png 300w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:150\/h:150\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IMG_0783.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We sinned against your ancestors. I would give anything that that can be reversed, but it cannot,\u201d Welby said, pointing out that the church began its transformation from loving power to begin loving people, in the 19th century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chat.whatsapp.com\/GNzV076ITtI3UQxdGLUShE\"><strong><em>CLICK HERE TO JOIN OUR WHATS APP GROUP<\/em><\/strong><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jamaicaobserver.com\/2024\/07\/21\/postcard-paris-camesha-posh-powell\/\"><\/a><\/p><div id=\"antig-481912491\" class=\"antig-content_3 antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.courts.com\/antigua\/\" aria-label=\"1000436969\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:864\/h:1080\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1000436969.jpg\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:864\/h:1080\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1000436969.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:240\/h:300\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1000436969.jpg 240w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:819\/h:1024\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1000436969.jpg 819w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:768\/h:960\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1000436969.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1350\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe good shepherd of Psalm 23 is at work among us. Conversion changes the whole sense of who we are. It gives us a new identity. So, what makes for a better future? <\/p><div id=\"antig-3023537332\" class=\"antig-content_6 antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/discoverflow.co\/web\/antigua\" aria-label=\"ANU CVP Digital Broadband 1200x400_1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1201\/h:401\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1201\/h:401\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg 1201w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:100\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1024\/h:342\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:768\/h:256\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" width=\"1201\" height=\"401\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The knowledge of when our predecessors terribly failed cannot be ignored. We are all forgiven by God for the things we confess because Jesus bore the sins on himself, being God Himself. We are now responsible to God to do right, and to repent and say sorry. That must involve reversing direction and going in a different way. Our Saviour and His ever-present love led the church into seeking to do right. Too late, but better late than never.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chat.whatsapp.com\/GNzV076ITtI3UQxdGLUShE\"><strong><em>CLICK HERE TO JOIN OUR WHATS APP GROUP<\/em><\/strong><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/tracking.trdunicorn-online.com\/193865ad-8e74-4887-8579-95c15491b86b?site=jamaicaobserver&amp;site_id=1026626&amp;title=Compra+CFD+de+Grupo+Aval+con+s%C3%B3lo+%24100+y+empieza+a+ganar+un+segundo+sueldo&amp;platform=Desktop&amp;campaign_id=38421130&amp;campaign_item_id=3970786521&amp;thumbnail=http%3A%2F%2Fcdn.taboola.com%2Flibtrc%2Fstatic%2Fthumbnails%2FGETTY_IMAGES%2FFKF%2F1344044635__qHcPljd5.jpg&amp;click_id=GiBYCPYXNiwdipvLPKdcE0oNQrVvdRPwn9BlM355mDfwKCDahWIoyfHTjYqHhfAdMMLUPg&amp;utm_source=taboola&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;tblci=GiBYCPYXNiwdipvLPKdcE0oNQrVvdRPwn9BlM355mDfwKCDahWIoyfHTjYqHhfAdMMLUPg#tblciGiBYCPYXNiwdipvLPKdcE0oNQrVvdRPwn9BlM355mDfwKCDahWIoyfHTjYqHhfAdMMLUPg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Welby told the congregants that it was his privilege to be invited to address them, and explained that he saw the invitation as an act of grace and forgiveness on their part.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jamaicaobserver.com\/2024\/07\/20\/seaforth-defend-st-thomas-major-league-title\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said he knows that parts of the Church of England, and even one of the archbishops in the 18th century, owned slaves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe shepherd, as Ezekiel said, consumed the flock. It is no wonder the Church of England has suffered judgement, for what worse thing could be done? Even for those in the church who did not actively participate in chattel enslavement, the silence of the church was collusion, an agreement with slavery,\u201d he said, adding that there were bishops who truly profited from slavery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chat.whatsapp.com\/GNzV076ITtI3UQxdGLUShE\"><strong><em>CLICK HERE TO JOIN OUR WHATS APP GROUP<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cToday we know that we were wrong. It was a vile and disgusting sin. There remains in many hearts resistance to the concept of enslavement as being our sin and the celebration of ending the idea that a human being can ever be a possession. Yesterday the diocese was savaged by its shepherds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Today it is a diocese that suffers the consequence of its past when it was the church of slave owners,\u201d Welby said to an attentive congregation, in hoping his apology would be accepted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chat.whatsapp.com\/GNzV076ITtI3UQxdGLUShE\"><strong><em>CLICK HERE TO JOIN OUR WHATS APP GROUP<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-4114151\">The combined Anglican church choir in action at the celebration of the 200th anniversary of the Anglican Diocese of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands at the National Arena in St Andrew on Sunday. 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