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Archbishop Mullally Restores £100 million Justice Fund for Slave-Trade Victims

8/2/2026

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Archbishop of Canterbury Dame Sarah Mullally renewed the Church of England’s £100 million justice fund, directing it to programmes in communities harmed by the slave trade.
On a Cape Coast Castle tour, Mullally saw the dungeons, the “door of no return” and said chapel above shows the church’s role.
Critics dispute the Church’s culpability and raise concerns; Ghana’s foreign minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa praised the visit as a signal to revisionists.

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Archbishop of Canterbury Dame Sarah Mullally renewed the Church of England’s £100 million justice fund, directing it to programmes in communities harmed by the slave trade.
On a Cape Coast Castle tour, Mullally saw the dungeons, the “door of no return” and said chapel above shows the church’s role.
Critics dispute the Church’s culpability and raise concerns; Ghana’s foreign minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa praised the visit as a signal to revisionists.