After Pope’s apology, Canada’s Indigenous survivors want compensation, records
Toronto, Canada Reuters Pope Francis’s long-awaited apology to Canada’s Indigenous community for more than a century of abusive residential schools, many of them run by the Catholic Church, should be followed by millions of dollars in compensation and the release of residential school records, survivors and Indigenous leaders said. Canada’s state-sanctioned schools forcibly separated about […]
Papal meeting with Canadian First Nations now set
Toronto, CanadaAP A meeting at the Vatican between Pope Francis and Indigenous people who were abused at church-run boarding schools in Canada has been rescheduled for late March and early April after being postponed due to the pandemic. The change was announced in a joint statement Tuesday by the Canadian Catholic Bishops, Assembly of First […]