Pope apologizes to Indigenous Canadians for wrongs at residential schools

Indigenous leaders are also pushing for the pope to travel to Canada to offer an apology.

By Philip Pullella, Reuters April 1, 2022
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VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis issued a historic apology to Canadian Indigenous peoples on Friday for the Roman Catholic Church’s role in residential schools that sought to erase their cultures and where many children suffered abuse and were buried in unmarked graves.

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