{"id":1402909,"date":"2022-03-27T11:30:57","date_gmt":"2022-03-27T15:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1402909"},"modified":"2022-03-27T11:31:06","modified_gmt":"2022-03-27T15:31:06","slug":"canadas-indigenous-peoples-seek-papal-apology-at-vatican-for-residential-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/canadas-indigenous-peoples-seek-papal-apology-at-vatican-for-residential-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s indigenous peoples seek papal apology at Vatican for residential schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcanadas-indigenous-peoples-seek-papal-apology-at-vatican-for-residential-schools%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1402909&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2022-03-27T142719Z_1_LYNXNPEI2Q05P_RTROPTP_0_CANADA-INDIGENOUS-VATICAN_1.jpg\" alt=\"FILE PHOTO: Trudeau visits Cowessess First Nation in Saskatchewan\" \/><br \/>FILE PHOTO: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau lays a teddy bear at a small flag in a field prior to a ceremony at the site of a former residential school where ground-penetrating radar detected a potential 751 unmarked graves, in Cowessess First Nation, Saskatchewan, Canada July 6, 2021.  Liam Richards\/Pool via REUTERS\/File Photo<\/div>\n<p>March 27, 2022<\/p>\n<p>By Philip Pullella<\/p>\n<p>VATICAN CITY (Reuters) \u2013     Canadian indigenous peoples meet Pope Francis this week to ask him to apologise for the Catholic Church\u2019s role in residential schools where children were abused and their culture denied.<\/p>\n<p>More than 30 indigenous elders, residential schools survivors and young people will meet him several times at the Vatican between Monday and Friday in what Canada\u2019s Catholic Church has called a process of healing and reconciliation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe expect that these private encounters will allow the Holy Father to meaningfully address both the ongoing trauma and legacy of suffering faced by Indigenous Peoples to this day,\u201d Canada\u2019s bishops said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The meetings would also focus on \u201cthe role of the Catholic Church in the residential school system, which contributed to the suppression of indigenous languages, culture and spirituality,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>The recurring schools scandal broke out again last year with the discovery of the remains of 215 children at the former Indian Residential School in Kamloops in the Western Canadian province of British Columbia. <\/p>\n<p>The discovery at the school, which closed in 1978, reopened old wounds and brought new demands for accountability. Hundreds more unmarked burial sites have been found since.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is something that is an important step,\u201d said Gerald Antoine, chief of the Dene people and regional chief of the  Assembly of First Nations, said of the meetings.<\/p>\n<p>He told a news conference in Canada that the delegates would ask the pope \u201cto visit our family and to apologise. I think this is an issue which is long overdue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has asked Francis to make an apology during a visit to Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Last October, Francis accepted an invitation from the Canadian bishops. Vatican sources say he likely will go this summer.<\/p>\n<p>The stated aim of the schools was to assimilate indigenous children. They operated between 1831 and 1996 and were run by several Christian denominations on behalf of the government, most by the Catholic Church.<\/p>\n<p>About 150,000 children were taken from their homes. Many were subjected to abuse, rape and malnutrition in what the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 2015 called \u201ccultural genocide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Delegates from the Inuit and Metis people and from the Assembly of First Nations will have three separate private meetings with the pope before he addresses all on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Francis was elected pope nearly two decades after the last of the schools closed. He already has apologised generically for the Church\u2019s role in colonialism in the Americas.         <\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Philip Pullella. 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