Monday, March 28, 2022

Canadian Indigenous leaders will meet with the pope in hopes of apology

Flags mark the spot where the remains of over 750 children were buried on the site of the former Marieval Indian Residential School in Cowessess first Nation, Saskatchewan, June 25, 2021. - More than 750 unmarked graves have been found near a former Catholic boarding school for indigenous children in western Canada.

Indigenous leaders from Canada will meet with Pope Francis starting Monday in hopes of securing a papal apology for abuses committed against them by Catholic priests and school workers.

(Image credit: GEOFF ROBINS/AFP via Getty Images)

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