In this file photo taken on June 23, 2022, Brazilian indigenous people protest for the demarcation of indigenous land and over the murder of British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian Indigenous affairs specialist Bruno Pereira, in Sao Paulo, Brazil. (NELSON ALMEIDA / AFP) BRASILIA – Brazil's federal police on Saturday arrested five more men in […]
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Pope apologizes for ‘deplorable evil’ of Canadian indigenous schools
People listen to Pope Francis issue a historic apology for the Catholic Church's cooperation with Canada's "catastrophic" policy of Indigenous residential schools in Maskwacis, near Edmonton, Canada on July 25, 2022. (TED SHAFFREY / AP PHOTO) MASKWACIS – Pope Francis apologized on Monday to Canada's native people on their land for the Church's role in […]
Pope arrives in Canada on tour of ‘penance’ for indigenous abuse
Pope Francis (right) and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (left) take part in a welcoming ceremony for the Pope at Edmonton International Airport in Alberta Province, Canada on July 24, 2022. (PATRICK T. FALLON / AFP) EDMONTON, Alberta – Pope Francis landed in Canada on Sunday to kick off a week-long trip that will center […]
Pope travels to Canada on ‘pilgrimage of penance’
Pope Francis recites the Angelus noon prayer from the window of his studio overlooking St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican on July 3, 2022. (ANDREW MEDICHINI / AP PHOTO) EDMONTON, Alberta – Pope Francis is scheduled to land in Canada on Sunday on what he has called a "pilgrimage of penance" to apologize for the […]
Thousands march in Quito after night of Ecuador protest violence
Indigenous people march in downtown Quito, on June 22, 2022, on the tenth consecutive day of indigenous-led protests against the Ecuadorean government. (VERONICA LOMBEIDA / AFP) QUITO – Thousands of indigenous protesters held a peaceful march through Ecuador's capital, Quito, on Wednesday to demand that President Guillermo Lasso address price rises that have ignited 10 […]