Church of England and the slavery reparations row

The Church of England is appealing for other organisations to help it establish a £1 billion fund to address its former connections to slavery. A £100 million sum was initially pledged by the Church to tackle the issue, but following a review by an independent oversight group, it was viewed as “insufficient”, The Guardian reported. Instead, it has been suggested a far greater sum is necessary to properly “reflect the scale of moral sin”.  But instead of increasing its investment, the Church hopes to “attract co-investors to increase the fund’s value” to “invest globally in black-led businesses”. Subscribe to The Week Escape your echo chamber. Get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple perspectives. SUBSCRIBE & SAVE Sign up for The Week’s Free Newsletters From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox. From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox. The original commitment to reparations, supported by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, was made following findings that a “significant chunk” of the Church’s £10.3 billion wealth could be traced...