Ghana welcomes Pope's apology over Catholic Church's role in slavery

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  • JESUS IS GOD 3 days ago

    Come to Me, all who are weary”
    — Matthew 11:28.
    Bring your burden to Jesus; He will give you
    rest and new life.

  • Dr Mumbi Seraki 3 days ago

    Hello youth of Ghana..... You can take your own life with medicine......for instance 15 tramadol at once.....or combine medicine and akpeteshie or weedicide.

  • FRANKIE 3 days ago

    While the Catholic Church has seen reason to apologize for its role in slavery some brainwashed Ghanaians say we don't deserve an apology simply because of the involvement of a few chiefs.

  • OGyam 3 days ago

    @ FRANKIE, our Asantehene's from Osei Tutu in 1700 to Prempeh in 1896 played a very major role in the slave trade.Yes, the operative word is major, various tribes defeated by Asantehene's were compelled to supply thousands ...
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  • Pelicles 3 days ago

    OGyam, what evidence do you suggesting that the first Asantehene, Nana Osei Tutu 1, had a hand in the slave trade?

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari. 2 days ago

    Ghanaian Chiefs and people must very much apologize for the Slave Trades that went on. I blame Africans more than any other entity for the various Slave Trades that went on in Africa. Who raided other places for Slaves that w ...
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  • OGyam 2 days ago

    @Pelicles, obviously, you do not expect to read the evidence from the dairies of illiterate Osei Tutu or expect Kwaku Dua to tell you what his ancestors did but the European merchants recorded what they did.

    Osei Tutu ...
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  • Blue Pen 3 days ago

    @Hypocritical Frankie. A few chiefs, you say? You dishonestly try to downplay the immense role that some of our wicked and backward people played, yet you expect all of us to support this reparations drive!

    Yes massive re ...
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  • Concern citizen 3 days ago

    Actually you are a devil. Why dont you Take them yourself

  • POURFENDEUR DE LA CORRUPTION/ANTI CORRUPTION 3 days ago

    We have too many fools in the NDC. Toilet self is better and useful than clueless drankard dictator Idi Amin John Ford Airbus Deadgoat Dumsor Mahama. Felix Ofosu Kwakye's lying kaka head and smelly mouth attracts flies all ov ...
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  • Jane Wills 3 days ago

    In Christ, there is neither Jew nor Gentile nor slave.

    So how come the Catholic Church enslaved Africans, endorsed slavery, traded in African slaves, and benefited imensely from slavery?

    Like Zacchaeus, the Catholic ...
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  • prophet mohammed was a sick dog 3 days ago

    Say no to islam and convert to a real religion.
    Allah is satanic scum and qur'an is toilet paper. Search online for ways to move away from evil islam.........You can join ex-muslim groups online and be safe......... ...
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  • Acting Chief 3 days ago

    You’re quite wise. Your argument and writing are compelling and I completely agree with you.

  • OGyam 3 days ago

    And, in Ghana we will never,ever ask Kwaku Dua, whose ancestor were more enthusiastic in the
    slave raiding and trading from 1700-1896 to apologize for the role his vile and despicable ancestors also played

    We always ju ...
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  • Gazoya 3 days ago

    Let even Latvia bring it's ship to carry me (Ghanaians) away still aaah man go jakpa! Let's focus on beating England and 4get abt the past..

  • James Amewudah 3 days ago

    It appears you are yet to appreciate the nature and the gravity of the SLAVE TRADE that affected some of our ancestors. If you imagine the "horrific nature" of the tragedy, you would "reason proper".

  • Fear God 3 days ago

    The Catholic Church was the major contributing factor of that attrocities before the open to all slave trade in the whol wide world.

    They used the jesuit (Society of Jesus, a prominent religious order of priests and brothe ...
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  • Mr simple 3 days ago

    Sooo What,your so called papal has apologized on behalf of the church so we forgot it , Be serious Africans /Ghananians,these people took our forefathers into slavery for over 400years ,the church h played a very significant ...
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  • Pelicles 3 days ago

    Gyimii no ye too much. While the "White man" uses his intellect to solve problems, they have lied to us that we should pray for God to come and solve our problems for us, and some of us believe that nonsense.

  • Shithole 3 days ago

    Who in Ghana welcome the apology

  • GOLDEN 3 days ago

    THE DEEPER MEANING SHOULD BE AKNOWLEDGED,THE STIFF-NECKED PEOPLE IN THE HOLY BIBLE,REFERING TO BLACKS,WERE CAPTURED AS SLAVES FOR DISOBEYING THE MOST HIGH GOD ALMIGHTY OUR CREATOR,ITS ALL WRITTEN IN THE OLD TESTAMENT,ONLY THE ...
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  • hmm na aka 3 days ago

    Besides the slave trade, you murdered about 50 million people into matrydom saying you are the holy one on earth with pagan doctrines. How can a Catholic Church do that??? It's a shame unto you, yet people are following you a ...
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  • Sam Fante warriort 3 days ago

    We don't need no apologies just return everything you had been stole from us including our people. Homosexuals criminals blood vipers.

  • KOFI GYAN 3 days ago

    THE MODERN DAY TRANS ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE IS THE INTERNATIONAL COCOA BEAN VALUE CHAIN WHICH GIVES THE GHANAIAN COCOA FARMER 5% OF THE VALUE OF CHOCOLATE PROCESSED IN THE NETHERLANDS AND THE UNITED STATES. THE MEAGRE 5% HAS BE ...
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  • No Mercy 3 days ago

    Catholic church is a Group of Wicked Witches.They came to Africa to Steal our GOLD and other Minerals with Bible,in the name of GOD.They took us as Slaves with Chains in our hands and legs.Most of our People died along the jo ...
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  • ODK 3 days ago

    Well, I'm not too sure if the Western World would eventually agree to pay reparations to African countries that suffered the negative effects of the Transatlantic slave trade; but one thing I'm sure about is that whatever com ...
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  • Long long long ago 3 days ago

    There was slave trade before the first century and the recent centuries. You people get time and space

  • Agbeli Kumordi 3 days ago

    Europeans are criminals they've lied to us about God with their fake Jesus that looks like some one born in Norway but practically fake Jesus and fake God
    Shame on to theme
    Thank you president Mahama

  • KH 3 days ago

    The Asantehene claims they came together to wage wars. Their main aim was rather to wage unprovoked wars to engage in the transatlantic slave trade. The Europeans at the coast were happy to supply the so called Asan ...
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  • Kupp 2 days ago

    apology accomplishes nothing. why is this news? it does not take much to con the black man.

  • Marginal 2 days ago

    Let England allow Ghana to beat them 4-0 at the world cupto serve as their compensation to Ghanaians.

  • Bukpo James 2 days ago

    Apologies alone can't change Africa, The Catholic Church in Ghana should be change to Ghana Church. Africans can not continue paying dues for the Pope to be enjoying at Rome.

  • MAN 2 days ago

    WHAT DIFFIRENCE DOES IT MAKE? THEY ENRICH THEIR EVIL KINGDOM WHILE RAPING OUR ENCESTERS. WHAT IT MEANS IF YOU ARE WESTERN RELIGIOUS FELOWER JUST THINK TWICE

  • Fod 2 days ago

    We know the Catholic Church is NOT a church of Christ.
    Who doesn't know it's a cult.
    How can a believer in the holy Bible still engage in slavery?
    Which part of the Bible teaches that?
    It's Satan that holds people in slav ...
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