Pope Francis arrives in Canada to apologise to indigenous communities for abuse at former residential schools

Pope Francis arrived in the indigenous community of Maskwacis, Alberta, on Monday, where he is expected to deliver a long-sought apoliogy for the Catholic Church’s role in Canada’s “residential school” system.

Between 1883 and 1996, an estimated 150,000 children were separated from their families at the schools, where kids were brutally forced to assimilate and often the subject of neglect and physical and sexual abuse.

Hundreds of bodies were found in an unmarked grave at the site of a former residential school in Saskatchewan last summer, setting off a widespread reckoning over the church’s role in the conquest of indigenous peoples in North America.

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