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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Chris Osuh Community affairs correspondent

C of E’s £100m plan to address historical links to slavery faces legal challenge

Three officials sit at a panel desk with Church of England branding at General Synod
The General Synod meets in York. It heard that the church not only profited from the slave trade but ‘supported, defended and participated in’ it. Photograph: Bridget Catterall/Alamy Live News/Alamy Live News.

The Church of England is facing a legal challenge over Project Spire, its £100m plan to further reparative justice for historical links to enslavement, as staff come under “vile abuse” from critics.

At the General Synod in York over the weekend, Stephen Cottrell, the archbishop of York, defended the project as a “work of healing, justice and repair”.

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