The Latest Breaking News from Justin Welby

Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby reveals ancestor owned slaves in Jamaica

His great, great, great grandfather Sir James Fergusson was an owner of enslaved people in Jamaica.

Evening Standard · Oct 22, 2024

Archbishop of Canterbury reveals ties to slavery and says ancestors were compensated for abolition

Great-great-grandfather of archbishop’s biological father owned enslaved people in Jamaica

The Independent UK · Oct 22, 2024

Archbishop of Canterbury reveals ancestral links to slavery

Justin Welby says ancestor owned enslaved people in Jamaica and was paid compensation upon abolition

The Guardian - UK · Oct 21, 2024

Archbishop says God is green and pleads with leaders to: ‘Act now before it is too late to save the world’

Defiant Welby says he won’t be silenced: ‘If it is interfering to seek to avert the climate change catastrophe, let us interfere’

The Independent UK · Sep 22, 2024

More parents facing struggle to feed their children as winter approaches, survey suggests

The cost of living crisis continues to squeeze family budgets and the government shows no sign of scrapping the two-child benefit cap

The Independent UK · Sep 10, 2024

‘I thought of the church as a friend and it slapped me in the face’: historian Diarmaid MacCulloch on the Church of England’s hypocrisy

The award-winning author, ecclesiastical historian and church-goer on his incendiary new book about sex and the church, challenging centuries of self-serving homophobia, fakery and abuse. He is primed for the backlash…

The Guardian - UK · Sep 8, 2024

Archbishop of Canterbury warns Christians against membership of far-right groups

Justin Welby condemns violent disorder of recent days as ‘unchristian’

The Guardian - UK · Aug 11, 2024

After all these days of hate and violence in the UK, we must find a way to live together well

Fairness, equality, ties that bind – that is what we seek now, says Justin Welby, the archbishop of Canterbury

The Guardian - UK · Aug 11, 2024

Anti-immigration rioters ‘defiling’ Union flag, says Archbishop of Canterbury

Protesters in attacks on ethnic minorities ‘do not represent Christian values’, the Most Reverend Justin Welby said as he condemned the ‘appalling manipulation’ of people on social media

The Independent UK · Aug 6, 2024

Slave trader Colston left bequest to Church of England, archive shows

As archbishop of Canterbury visits Jamaica, research reveals trader left money to church’s missionary arm

The Guardian - UK · Jul 20, 2024