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Pope Francis' Canada trip to make amends for Indigenous school scandal

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VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis heads to Canada on Sunday (Jul 24) for a chance to personally apologise to indigenous survivors of abuse committed over a span of decades at residential schools run

of abuse committed over a span of decades at residential schools run by the Catholic Church.

Pope Francis' Canada visit - which he has called a"penitential pilgrimage" of"healing and reconciliation" - is primarily to apologise to survivors for the Church's role in the scandal that a national truth and reconciliation commission has calledFrom the late 1800s to the 1990s, Canada's government sent about 150,000 First Nations, Metis and Inuit children into 139 residential schools run by the Church, where they were cut off from their families, language and...

"I would like a lot of people to come," said Charlotte Roan, 44, interviewed by AFP in June. The member of the Ermineskin Cree Nation said she wanted people to come"to hear that it wasn't made up".

 

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