Has the C of E got its reparations bill all wrong?

Apr 25, 2024 by

by Robert Tombs, Spectator: Reparations have a troubled history, and rightly. The word itself, in its familiar sense, seems to have been a euphemism thought up by lawyers after the first world war. President Woodrow Wilson had promised a...

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Is the Church paying reparations on a false premise?

Apr 24, 2024 by

by Charles Moore, Telegraph: If these claims are correct, the Church’s £440 million claim used to justify its £100 million expenditure today is wildly wrong. In January last year, the Church Commissioners, who run the Church of England’s...

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Queen Anne’s Bounty was NOT invested in slave trading

Apr 17, 2024 by

A letter in the Church Times last week notes that the investment held by Queen Anne’s Bounty was NOT in the slave trading of the South Sea Company but in government debt, rather like today’s gilt stocks, held by the Company....

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Time to tackle modern slavery rather than reparations for the past

Apr 11, 2024 by

Letter to the Church of England Newspaper April 12 2024 I was astonished to read the article by Justin Welby (28 March 2024) inferring that the Church Commissioners“were an impact investor with a responsibility to support & promote...

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Modern slavery on the rise

Apr 6, 2024 by

From: Evangelical Focus. Today, modern slavery produces 37% more economic benefits than ten years ago and affects more people than ten years ago. These are the main conclusions of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in the second...

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William Wilberforce and England’s forgotten saints

Mar 25, 2024 by

by Beatrice Scudeler, Artillery Row: The Clapham Saints and their efforts to reform British manners have been unjustly and unwisely forgotten. On 25 March 1807, Parliament passed an act to abolish the British slave trade. The Society for...

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