The Latest Breaking News from Assembly of First Nations

Papal visits are typically filled with the joyful pageantry, excitement and emotion of a big event. But Pope Francis’ trip to Canada next month will likely have a rather dour feel. The pope will make the transatlantic trip in part to apologize in person for past abuses suffered by Indigenous…

Pope Francis's long-awaited apology to Canada's indigenous community for more than a century of abusive residential schools, many of them run by the Catholic Church, should be followed by millions of dollars in compensation and the release of residential school records, survivors and indigenous leaders said.

In 2009, Pope Benedict XVI met with a First Nations delegation from Canada and privately expressed regret over abuse suffered by Indigenous children at church-run boarding schools

A delegation of Indigenous people with the Assembly of First Nations, Métis National Council and Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami soon travels to meet with Pope Francis at the Vatican for events during the week of March 28.

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