Canada School Abuse

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  Canada To Pay $2 Billion To Abuse Survivors From Indigenous Communities

  Canada will pay hundreds of Indigenous communities more than $2 billion in compensation for nearly a century of abuse suffered by children in residential schools, its government has announced.

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  "It Was Genocide": Pope On Abuse At Canada's Church-Run Indigenous Schools

  Pope Francis said on Saturday that what happened at residential schools that the Roman Catholic and other Christian Churches ran to forcefully assimilate Canada's indigenous children was genocide.

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  Pope Francis Ends Canada Trip With Apology To Inuit People

  Pope Francis ended his trip to Canada Friday as he began, by apologizing to Indigenous survivors of Catholic-run schools where children were abused over a span of decades, after meeting with Inuit people in the Canadian Arctic.

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  "I Once More Ask Forgiveness": Pope Francis On Sexual Abuse At Canadian Schools

  Pope Francis on Thursday asked for forgiveness for sexual abuse at Canadian schools for indigenous children run by Catholic orders, addressing a deep wound that many survivors wanted him to acknowledge during his apology tour in Canada.

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  Pope Francis Apologises To Canada's Indigenous People For School Abuse

  Pope Francis on Monday apologized for the "evil" inflicted on the Indigenous peoples of Canada on the first day of a visit focused on addressing decades of abuse at Catholic-run residential schools.

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  Pope Francis To Visit Canada School To Apologise For "Cultural Genocide"

  Pope Francis will visit a former residential school in Canada on Monday, where he is expected to make a historic personal apology to Indigenous survivors of abuse committed over decades at the Catholic-run institutions.

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  Pope's Canada Trip Today To Apologise To Indigenous Survivors Of School Abuse

  Pope Francis heads to Canada on Sunday for a chance to personally apologise to Indigenous survivors of abuse committed over a span of decades at residential schools run by the Catholic Church.

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  Indigenous Canadians Hopeful Ahead Of Pope's Apology For School Abuse

  For decades, trauma has lingered in the tiny Indigenous Canadian community of Maskwacis. But some hope to finally find a degree of closure during a visit by Pope Francis to apologise for the Church's role in a century of abuse.

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  Pope's Apology To Canada's Indigenous A "Step Forward": Justin Trudeau

  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday welcomed Pope Francis's apology to Canada's Indigenous peoples for a century of abuses committed at Church-run residential schools in this country, calling it a "step forward."

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  Pope Apologises To Canada's Indigenous For Abuse At Church-Run Schools

  Pope Francis apologised Friday for abuse committed at church-run residential schools in Canada, telling Indigenous delegations at the Vatican it caused him "pain and shame".

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  Churches Set Ablaze As More Unmarked Graves Found At Canada Indigenous Schools

  Two churches in Canada went up in flames Wednesday amid calls for a papal apology over abuse at indigenous residential schools where hundreds of unmarked graves were recently discovered, including 182 at a third burial site.

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  Canada Shares 'Burden' of Abuses Towards Natives: PM

  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau apologized Tuesday to natives for more than a century of abuses at boarding schools set up to assimilate Canada's indigenous peoples, saying the burden of those experiences weighs heavily.

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  Stephen Harper, Pope Francis Discuss School Abuse Scandal

  Prime Minister Stephen Harper during a meeting with Pope Francis on Thursday discussed decades of abuse suffered by aboriginal children at Catholic boarding schools in Canada, a government statement said.