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Ghana welcomes Pope's apology over Catholic Church's role in slavery
Key takeaways
- The Pope issued the clearest apology yet for the Church's involvement in legitimising slavery and its delay in condemning it for centuries.
- The apology was published on Monday in the Pope's first major teaching document of his papacy, which also focused on the dangers of artificial intelligence (AI).
- Ghana was a major hub for the transatlantic slave trade when millions of people were captured and loaded on to ships, never to return home.
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Thomas Naadi,BBC Africa, Accraand Basillioh Rukanga AFP via Getty Images The Pope described Church's role in slavery as a "wound in Christian memory"Ghana has welcomed Pope Leo XIV's apology for the Catholic Church's historic role in slavery, describing it as an "act of moral courage" that was important in the global pursuit of "truth, human dignity and justice".
The Pope issued the clearest apology yet for the Church's involvement in legitimising slavery and its delay in condemning it for centuries.
The apology was published on Monday in the Pope's first major teaching document of his papacy, which also focused on the dangers of artificial intelligence (AI).
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