Less than three months after 123 nations voted yes on UN Resolution A/RES/80/250 — recognizing the trafficking of enslaved Africans as among the gravest crimes against humanity — world leaders converged on Accra, Ghana for the Next Steps 2026 High-Level Consultative Conference. Hosted by President John Dramani Mahama of Ghana,…
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Pope Leo XIV Apologizes for the Church’s Role in Authorizing Slavery
On May 25, 2026 — Memorial Day — Pope Leo XIV made history. In his first papal encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas (“Magnificent Humanity”), the first American-born pope issued the most explicit apology any pope has ever delivered for the Catholic Church’s direct role in authorizing, legitimizing, and expanding the Transatlantic Slave Trade. He called…