英格兰教会管理机构周二投票，为其过去70年的种族主义行为发表正式道歉。
据英国广播公司报道，坎特伯雷大主教兼该教会领袖贾斯汀·韦尔比在该教会的立法机构总议会的一次会议上说，他对该教会的种族主义历史感到“抱歉和惭愧”。
“我感到抱歉和惭愧，”韦尔比说。“我为我们的历史感到羞耻，也为我们的失败感到羞耻。毫无疑问，当我们审视我们自己的教会时，我们仍然是根深蒂固的种族主义者。几年前我对主教团说过，[仍然是]真的。”
据英国广播公司报道，威尔比补充道，教会必须尽最大努力用“热情好客的环境”取代“敌对的环境”，并致力于消除种族不公正。
据美国有线电视新闻网报道，威尔比的演讲是在伦敦南华克教区主教会议成员安德鲁·穆泰恩·穆比牧师发表演讲后发表的。他的演讲集中在教会种族歧视的一个具体案例上。
蒙比讲述了他的一个教区居民多琳·布朗的故事，他说，他的家人因为种族原因，在1961年被拒绝进入伦敦南部的圣彼得教堂。布朗一家从加勒比海移民到英国。
据美国有线电视新闻网报道，他说:“多伦的家人遭受了可怕的、羞辱性的种族歧视，这种歧视至今仍影响着多伦与教会的关系。”。
蒙比提出了道歉的动议，得到了议会成员的一致支持。
2018年11月11日，伦敦威斯敏斯特大教堂，坎特伯雷大主教贾斯汀·韦尔比在参加纪念第一次世界大战停战一百周年的仪式时发表演讲。
据美国有线电视新闻网报道，该教堂的道歉特别提到了“风灾一代”，指的是来自英联邦加勒比海国家的第一批移民。第二次世界大战后，英国政府曾邀请其殖民地的公民来英国帮助复兴。
这个称谓指的是首批运送大量加勒比海移民到英国的船只之一——HMT帝国疾风英国广播公司称，1948年，该航班将数百名乘客从加勒比海带到英国。
英格兰教堂是英格兰的官方国家教堂。它建立于1534年，当时国王亨利八世将它从罗马天主教会中分离出来，罗马天主教会拒绝了国王的要求，宣布其婚姻无效。据其网站称，如今，它涵盖了约12，500个教区。
THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND IS SORRY FOR BEING 'DEEPLY INSTITUTIONALLY RACIST' FOR THE PAST 70 YEARS
The Church of England's governing body voted on Tuesday to issue an official apology for its racism over the past 70 years.
The BBC reported that Justin Welby, the archbishop of Canterbury and head of the church, said that he was "sorry and ashamed" of its history of racism at a meeting of the General Synod, the church's legislative arm.
"I am sorry and ashamed," Welby said. "I'm ashamed of our history, and I'm ashamed of our failure. There is no doubt when we look at our own church that we are still deeply institutionally racist. I said it to the College of Bishops a couple of years ago, and it's [still] true."
Welby added that the church must do its utmost to replace its "hostile environment" with a "hospitable, welcoming one" and should devote itself to stamping out racial injustice, according to the BBC.
Welby's speech came after one delivered by the Reverend Andrew Moughtin-Mumby, a member of the synod from London's Southwark Diocese, CNN reported. His speech centered on a specific case of racial discrimination by the church.
Moughtin-Mumby related the story of one his parishioners, Doreen Browne, whose family, he said, had been refused entry in 1961 to St. Peter's Church in South London because of their race. The Brownes had immigrated to Britain from the Caribbean.
"Doreen's family suffered a horrible, humiliating racism which still affects Doreen's relationship with the church even today," he said, according to CNN.
Moughtin-Mumby introduced the motion to issue the apology, which synod members unanimously supported.
Justin Welby, the archbishop of Canterbury, gives a speech as he attends a service marking the centenary of the World War I armistice at London's Westminster Abbey on November 11, 2018.
CNN reported that the church's apology specifically references the "Windrush generation," which refers to the first group of immigrants from the Caribbean countries of the British Commonwealth. The British government had invited citizens from its colonies to come to England to help revitalize it after World War II.
The appellation refers to the name of one of the first ships to carry a substantial number of Caribbean immigrants to Britain—the HMT Empire Windrush, which brought hundreds of passengers from the Caribbean to the U.K. in 1948, the BBC said.
The Church of England is England's official state church. It was founded in 1534 after King Henry VIII separated it from the Roman Catholic Church, which had refused to nullify the king's marriage following his request. Today, it encompasses some 12,500 parishes, according to its website.
