residential school survivors

Now that Pope Francis has arrived in Canada and is expected to beg forgiveness for Catholic-run residential schools, a team of translators is dedicated to making sure no words are lost for those receiving the apology.

George Arcand Jr. says it was a humbling experience to welcome Pope Francis to Canada as the Treaty 6 Grand Chief encouraged the leader of the Roman Catholic Church to join a path of healing by speaking with survivors of residential schools.

Residential school survivor Rod Alexis remembers his late father telling him: "Son, I don't know how to be a parent."

It won't be easy for Peter Irniq, a residential school survivor, to meet Pope Francis in Iqaluit next week.

Over the past two years, the discovery of more than 2,000 unmarked graves on the grounds of former residential schools across Canada has brought tensions to the fore. With the Pope’s visit now less than two weeks away, the question of how to honour former students without retraumatizing them is concerning to Six Nations.

The program for Pope's trip to Canada next month includes a visit to the site of a former Alberta residential school with survivors, the Vatican said on Thursday, June 23, 2022.

Residential school survivors say they hope the Pope's visit to Canada next month will include a direct apology for the Roman Catholic Church's role in running the institutions.

The president of the Métis National Council says the Queen should apologize for residential schools to help survivors and their families heal.

It marks the second time Phil Fontaine has met a pope and requested an apology from the Roman Catholic Church for its role in residential schools.

Murray Sinclair, like so many other Indigenous leaders, says the discovery by First Nations of hundreds of unmarked graves at former residential school sites has led to more people learning, and accepting, what survivors of these institutions experienced.

Indigenous leaders and residential school survivors will not travel to the Vatican as planned this month to meet with Pope Francis because of the latest threat posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Canada's Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister says some of the residential school records it's been criticized for withholding will be released to a national archives centre.

The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops says 25 to 30 Indigenous people are to meet with Pope Francis at the Vatican in December.

Newly named Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Marc Miller says he wants to get to the bottom of why Ottawa abandoned its appeal of a ruling releasing the Catholic Church from its settlement obligations to residential school survivors.

The national flag is set to be hoisted on Sunday, November 7, 2021, at federal buildings across Canada and the Peace Tower in Ottawa following the longest period in the country's history that it has flown at half-mast.