Catholic Church on Goree Island - Video Diary of SaharaReporters in Dakar
655 views · Published 27 June 2011 · 1:54 · Indexed 8 November 2026
Channel: SaharaTV · 2011 · News & Politics
The Church was built using slave labor for rich white slave dealers on Goree Island, and not even their rich African collaborators or African chiefs could worship there. They had to follow the mass from the yard. In 1992, while on a visit to the island, Pope John Paul II visited the church and apologised to the African people for the role the Catholic Church played in the slave trade.
