The Church of Scotland has apologised for its historical role in slavery. On Saturday the church’s general assembly met in Edinburgh to hear the formal apology from the Very Reverend Sally Foster-Fulton.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV made a historic apology on Monday for the Holy See’s role in legitimizing slavery and for having failed to condemn it for centuries, calling the Vatican’s record a “wound in Christian memory.”

The Government and Parliament of Saint Lucia, Ministry of Youth and Sports, National Reparations Committee (NRC), National Youth Council (NYC), The Repair Campaign (TRC) – and the 30+ young men and women who participated in the two-day National Youth Parliament on Reparations on May 26th and 27th, must all be roundly-commended for how this historic event played-out.

From conference rooms in Ghana to expected clashes at the upcoming Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Antigua, former St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves says the Caribbean reparation movement is preparing for what could become its most coordinated international campaign yet.