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Pope apologizes to Indigenous people of Canada for Catholic school abuses

By Associated Press

April 1, 2022

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Members of the Assembly of First Nations perform in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Thursday, March 31. Pope Francis has welcomed First Nations delegations to the Vatican. They were seeking an apology for the Catholic Church's role in running Canada's notorious residential schools for Indigenous children.
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Members of the Assembly of First Nations walk in St. Peter's Square at the end of their meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican, Thursday, March 31.
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Former national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, Phil Fontaine, stands outside St. Peter's Square at the end of a meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican, Thursday, March 31.
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Former national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, Phil Fontaine, left, stands outside St. Peter's Square at the end of a meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican, Thursday, March 31.
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Former Chief Phil Fontaine, center, flanked by Assembly of First Nations NWT Regional Chief Gerald Antoine, talks to journalists outside St. Peter's Square at the end of a meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican, Thursday, March 31.
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Assembly of First Nations member Rosanne Casimiro Ttes talks to journalists outside St. Peter's Square at the end of a meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican, Thursday, March 31.
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Members of a delegations by the Assembly of First Nations meet the journalists outside St. Peter's Square at the end of a meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican, Thursday, March 31.
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Members of the Assembly of First Nations perform in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Thursday, March 31.
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Indigenous artists from across Canada perform in St.Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Friday, April 1. Pope Francis on Friday made a historic apology to Indigenous Peoples for the "deplorable" abuses they suffered in Canada's Catholic-run residential schools and said he hoped to visit Canada in late July to deliver the apology in person to survivors of the church's misguided missionary zeal.
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From left, Gerald Antoine, First Nations NWT Regional Chief, Natan Obed, President of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami delegation, and Cassidy Caron, President of the Metis community, walk in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, after their meeting with Pope Francis, Friday, April 1.
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From left, Gerald Antoine, First Nations NWT Regional Chief, Natan Obed, President of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami delegation, and Cassidy Caron, President of the Metis community, walk in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, after their meeting with Pope Francis, Friday, April 1.
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From left, Gerald Antoine, First Nations NWT Regional Chief, Natan Obed, President of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami delegation, and Cassidy Caron, President of the Metis community, walk in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, after their meeting with Pope Francis, Friday, April 1.

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