Church considers its past.The leader of the Church of England Church of England: see England, Church of. , the Archbishop of Canterbury The Archbishop of Canterbury is the main leader of the Church of England and by convention is also recognised as head of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The current archbishop is Rowan Williams. Rowan Williams, has suggested that the Anglican church should consider paying reparations reparations, payments or other compensation offered as an indemnity for loss or damage. Although the term is used to cover payments made to Holocaust survivors and to Japanese Americans interned during World War II in so-called relocation camps (and used as well to for its role in the transatlantic slave trade that saw as many as 13m Africans shipped across the Atlantic to work in the plantations of the New World. Whilst warning that he did not believe there were any "quick solutions", Williams insists that the church must acknowledge the "terrible things that our forebears did" and "work at" the issue of reparations. Incredibly, the Church of England's missionary arm, the Society for the Propagation of the Faith The Society for the Propagation of the Faith is an international association for the assistance by prayers and alms of Catholic missionary priests, brothers, and nuns engaged in preaching the Gospel in non-Catholic countries. in Foreign Parts, owned plantations where African slaves were branded on their chests with red rod irons with the word 'society' to signify their owners. |
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