‘This is my church’: Residential school survivor skipping papal visit to walk in ancestors’ footsteps
When Pope Francis addresses residential school survivors in Maskwacis, Alberta on Monday, one survivor won’t be in the audience or
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Canadian Inuit and Métis leaders met cardinals, Vatican officials to pursue justice
WARNING: This story contains distressing details. Métis and Inuit leaders, who met the Pope at the Vatican last week, return
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Pope Francis apologizes to Canadian Indigenous delegates for ‘deplorable’ abuses at residential schools
Indigenous delegates reflect on Pope Francis’s apology for the conduct of some members of the Roman Catholic Church in Canada’s
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Canadian Inuit leader asks Pope Francis to intervene in case of priest accused of sex assault
WARNING: This story contains distressing details. The leader of the Inuit delegation meeting privately with Pope Francis on Monday has
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Fewer babies baptised in Finland, but Christianity ‘still strong’ in the north, statistics show
There has been a sharp decline in the number of babies baptised in Finland. According to statistics from the Population
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‘That is so sick’: Sex charges in Canada against fugitive French priest stayed
The arrest warrant for an Oblate priest accused of abusing children in Nunavut (east-Arctic Canada) has been stayed by the
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Snow church opens in southeast Finland
Locals in Lappeenranta in southeast Finland formally opened the city’s snow church, otherwise known as the Church of St. Lawrence
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Archdiocese in Alaska orders independent review to address possible sexual abuse
The Catholic Archdiocese in Anchorage, southern Alaska announced Wednesday it will take a close look at possible sexual abuse within
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Swedish archbishop wants ‘truth commission’ for abuse against indigenous Samis
Archbishop Antje Jackelén wants Sweden to set up an independent commission that will look into the state’s injustices against the country’s indigenous
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Arctic Anglicans seek fresh new recruits in England
Looee Mike was an Anglican Minister in the community of Pangnirtung, located in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut, for
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