VANCOUVER — The head of the Catholic Church in B.C. has promised that all church archives and records will be given to the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation near Kamloops, as the band tries to . . .
The Archdiocese of Vancouver has issued a statement in which it commits to being "fully transparent" with its archives and records regarding residential schools after children's remains were reportedly discovered in Kamloops.
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Canada s Indigenous services minister said Wednesday it is shameful that the Pope has never formally apologised for abuses at the country s Catholic-run Indigenous residential schools, which he termed labour camps.
Marc Miller s comments followed the recent discovery of unmarked graves of 215 children in Kamloops at one of 139 boarding schools set up a century ago to forcibly assimilate Canada s Indigenous peoples. I do, I do, the minister told a news conference when asked if he supports growing Indigenous calls for a papal apology that date back to a 2015 truth and reconciliation commission report, and before.
While calls continue for Pope Francis and the Catholic Church as a whole to apologize for the trauma created by residential schools, the head of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vancouver has . . .
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