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Is the Church of England going to apologise for Christianity? A report by something called the Oversight Group has declared that the Church should say sorry publicly, not just for profiting from the evils of slavery (through investment in the South Sea Company) but for ‘seeking to destroy diverse African traditional religious belief systems’. And having apologised, it recommends the Church ‘reach beyond theological institutions’ and ‘enable all Africans to discover the varied belief systems and spiritual practices of their forbears and their efficacy’.
What would such an apology say about the Ugandan Martyrs executed in the 1880s by King Mwanga II?
The Oversight Group is an independent committee, but the Church Commissioners have ‘warmly welcomed’ all the report’s recommendations, including the ‘suggestions around truth-telling’, and for those of us who still love the Church of England, this is both depressing and disturbing.
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