Pope apologises for ‘evil’ of Canada’s residential schools

Pope Francis has apologised to Indigenous people in Canada for the “evil” of residential schools, the church-run, forced-assimilation institutions that First Nation, Inuit and Metis children were forced to attend for decades. After a visit on Monday to the former site of Ermineskin Indian Residential School in Maskwacis, in the western province of Alberta, the pope said he travelled to Canada “to tell you in person of my sorrow [and] to implore God’s forgiveness, healing and reconciliation”. Al Jazeera’s Patty Culhane reports. – Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe – Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish – Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera – Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/ #PopeInCanada #CanadaIndigenousMassGraves #CanadaResidentialSchools #Canada #Indigenous #ResidentialSchools #FirstNation #PopeFrancis #Alberta
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