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Slave labour is against God's plan - Pope

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  • KOMFO ANOKYE 10 years ago

    YOU'RE RIGHT ABOUT SLAVELY BUT THOSE WHO CAME BEFORE YOU AS MISSIONARIES USED THE BIBLE TO ENSLAVED AFRICANS, SO IT'S DIFFICULT FOR THE WOUND TO BE HEALD.

  • jos mina 10 years ago

    mr pope europian have enslave african nation the aborigenes and american natives killing infecting them with sickness to takeover their land over the years and catolic church is aware of this the tasmanin black were all kille ...
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  • osebo 10 years ago

    The Catholic Church is synonymous with Slavery. Come again Mr Pope Fr5ancis.

    Pope Nicholas V in 1452 gave the Portuguese king the right to enslave people who were not Christian. This was used by the Portuguese to enslave A ...
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  • C.Y ANDY-K 10 years ago

    I was going to draw attention to exactly what you wrote. Yes, they turned to Africa for slaves, with the blessing of the Catholic Church, after the brutal depopulation of the natives "Indians". Some like the Caribs became ext ...
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  • I Don't Know 10 years ago

    Yet you accept the lies they brought you in the bible. You cannot think or reason for yourself than to depend on history of myths as truth. You don't even know that you are still under their enslavement, all you know is wi ...
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  • Acolyte 10 years ago

    Osebo, you are a fool in that your own government and other public officials are enslaving you and your family in Ghana. Fools always remember then but fail to work towards a better future. How there you insult the Holy Fathe ...
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  • American 10 years ago

    This one should know better. It was Augustine, doctor of the Church, who said that slavery, while man-made, is perfectly compatible with God and
    natural law.

  • I Don't Know 10 years ago

    how ignorant you are, a slave in this modern world. With all the libraries and articles you still cannot see that you are enslaved? you can go on living in your slavery, but remember that the best place to hide information ...
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  • SAY IT LOUD ! 10 years ago

    IF YOU THINK SO, BELIEVE SO, AND REALLY MEAN IT, THEN WAKE UP YOUR PREDECESSOR, NICHOLAS VIII OF CURSED MEMORY, WHO WAS REAL NAZY, BASTARD AND WORSE THAN SATAN THE DEVIL, WAKE HIM UP AND CURSE RMOVE HIS SAINTHOOD FROM HIM;

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  • C.Y ANDY-K 10 years ago

    Wow! You summed it all up so aptly and so there is nothing left to add. Phew!

    Andy-K

  • Abrantie-In Da House 10 years ago

    At long last, I have found a real thinking Ghanaian, who knows who actually knows the problem of Ghana and Africa, the causes of the problem and how to solve them!!! I hope and pray to Nyame and Nyamewaa, that more Ghanaians ...
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  • Asiwome 10 years ago

    Prayers of the church fathers changed the world over.

  • Fuck the pope and the Catholic Church 10 years ago

    If he has got nothing better to say,he can start by advising his mesogynistic pedophilia institutions/priest's,himself included to stop the child molestation that has been going since the day gaystianity oops ma bad Christian ...
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  • Fuck the pope and the Catholic Church 10 years ago

    This bitch need to put the crack pipe down.What the fuck was he thinking,all that Christianity is about,has been about is slavery and now this beastly bitch is out here running his stinking mouth like their god has never be i ...
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  • us brothers and sisters 10 years ago

    Idiot, the first slave ship which entered Africa and ordered by Pope to captured Africans was called Good Lord Jesus.Christianity and Islam are the down fall of black man. These two religions are must wicked and thief's.They ...
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  • Hebert, Sweden 10 years ago

    Look! what is the essence of insulting? New King New Law, thank Pope Francis for voicing his feelings, and thinking. What you need to do is to tell the Pope, and his church to compensate the victims, which the church have inf ...
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  • Daavi 10 years ago

    STUPIDITY IS REIGNING OVER COMMON SENSE TODAY AMONG 60% OF GHANAIANS.

    IN CONVERSATION WITH GHANAIAN FRIENDS YOU CAN TELL, THEY DONT UNDERSTAND THE ISSUE YET THEY JUMP INTO HASTY CONCLUSION.

    LISTENING TO SERMONS ON RA ...
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  • Abrantie-In Da House 10 years ago

    If you understand wht is going on here, you will realise we don't need anything from them. We don't need neither their apologies after all these years nor their compensations you are suggesting of. They should just leave afri ...
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  • Fuck the pope and the Catholic Church 10 years ago

    What the fuck are you talking about motherfucker,what compensation are you taking about bitch.Let me tell you something sucker,you and your people came here and despite the hospitality we showed you faggots,what was the rewar ...
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  • KOMFO MENSAH 10 years ago

    RELIGION IS POLITICS AND MAN MADE. CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM HAVE BROUGHT A GREAT CURSE TO MANKIND ESPECIALLY AFRICANS. THE SHIP WHICH BROUGHT THE BIBLE CAME WITH GUNS, AMMUNITIONS, GINS... AND ITS RETURN TOOK AWAY OUR ANSCESTER ...
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  • Kwasi Adarkwah - Syi 10 years ago

    What is more slavery than what you roman Catholics are doing. You people have taken advantage of your congregation far too long and enslave them because of ignorance. You have sex with them, you practice homosexual and all ki ...
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  • GHANA FIRST 10 years ago

    SOME GHANAIANS LIKE TO INSULT PEOPLE. POPE FRANCIS IS TALKING ABOUT WHAT WE ALL CAN DO TODAY TO RESPECT THE HUMAN DIGNITY OF EVERY PERSON. AS A STUDENT OF HISTORY, POPE FRANCIS KNOWS THAT MISTAKES WERE MADE IN THE PAST,(SLAVE ...
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  • Adomba 10 years ago

    Slavery has come to humanity as a result of the fall of Adam and Eve. It was not seen in the lives of the holy pair. Slavery became a possibility when sin became a way of life outside the Edenic home. We see the harbinger of ...
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  • Asiwome 10 years ago

    We should all aplaud the effort of the pope, because some workers think of themselves as slaves that is why there are so many labour disputes. 1Tim 2:2 as well as 2Tim 2:2 are very relevant to the issue. We have to pray for o ...
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  • Kano 10 years ago

    Home News Catholic Church enslaved 30,000 Irish women as forced unpaid labor in Magdalene Laundries until 1996

    Catholic Church enslaved 30,000 Irish women as forced unpaid labor in Magdalene Laundries until 1996

    2/6/20 ...
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  • KWABENA OHEMENG,LONDON. 10 years ago

    Without slave labour capitalism can never succeed.All the rich western countries became prosperous on the back of slave labour which was demeaning,brutal and not paid for.Capitalism can never succeed without cheap labour whic ...
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  • Till Zion 10 years ago

    Slavery is against God's plan..I agree to that. If so why is it condoned so much in the bible?
    Does it mean that the bible as we see it is today was not written by God?


    CHECK THESE QUOTES FROM THE BIBLE:
    Psalm 123:2: A ...
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