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Vatican Đã Thú Tội Buôn Bán Nô Lệ 179 năm trước

Subject: VATICAN DA THU TOI BUON BAN NO LE
From: Nguyen Quoc-Nguyen
Date: Wed, April 19, 2017 10:20 am

Ban tin hom qua, thu ba, 18 thang 4 nam 2017:

Dong Ten (Jesuits, GH Francis la 1 thanh vien) cung voi Georgetown University (truong Dai-Hoc rat noi tieng, lau doi, cua Giao Hoi Catholic My) da thu toi tung buon ban no le 179 nam truoc.

Moi tat ca qui vi, Phuong Hoang, Huy Thai, Tran Quang Dieu, Nguyen Manh Quang, MS Nguyen Quang Minh, Khai Vo, Pham Trung Kien, vv... va nhung ai co the dich sang tieng Viet de giup duoc so dong tren dien dan (dang dung ngon ngu khac Anh Van, Duc, Phap, Nhat, Han, ...v.v.) doc va hieu. Vi rang hieu biet "su that se giai phong chung ta".

Tui khong du tu vung (vocabularies) de dich bai duoi day, hay lam nhieu du kien lich su.

Xin kinh chuyen den qui vi tuy nghi xu dung.

Xin cam on,

NQNguyen
don than doc ma
tu duy tu lap
phi dang chai
bat tham chinh
vo vu loi
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Jesuits and Georgetown repent for slavery
Jesuits and Georgetown repent for complicity in slave trade



On Tuesday, the Jesuits and Georgetown repented. In a "Liturgy of Remembrance, Contrition and Hope," hosted at Georgetown, the university's president and Jesuit leaders issued emotional mea culpas 179 years in the making. "We express our solemn contrition for our participation in slavery, and the benefit our institution received," said Georgetown's president, John DeGioia. "We cannot hide from this truth, bury this truth, ignore this truth. Slavery remains the original evil in our republic, an evil that our university was complicit in." More than 100 descendants of slaves sold by the Maryland Jesuits attended the service, many wearing green ribbons to symbolize hope and new life. They processed ...
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WASHINGTON — Two buildings on Georgetown’s campus were renamed Tuesday in an effort to acknowledge the university’s history of slavery. Flanked by faculty, students and descendants of the 272 enslaved people sold by the Maryland Province of Jesuits to Louisiana plantation owners in 1828, the university’s president, John J. DeGioia, rededicated two campus halls. Sitting in the heart of Georgetown’s campus, the buildings now bear the names of a slave sold for the university’s benefit and a free woman known for opening the first school for black girls. “Behind me is Isaac Hawkins Hall, which we are here to dedicate this afternoon along with Anne Marie Becraft Hall, the oldest building on our campus ...
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Georgetown University has been repenting for one of the darkest chapters of its history — the sale of 272 slaves in 1838 by Jesuit priests to rescue the school from financial disaster. At a campus gathering Tuesday to honor and remember those slaves, one of their descendants, Sandra Green Thomas said: “Their pain was unparalleled. Their pain is still here. It burns in the soul of every person of African-American origin in the United States. All African Americans have hungered and thirsted for the bounty of America.” For almost two centuries, few people knew about Georgetown’s decision to auction off its slaves and use the money to help build a pristine, almost achingly beautiful campus in the ...
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