Pope Francis meets Indigenous leaders, residential school survivors in historic Canada visit | LIVE
Pope Francis will speak publicly for the first time during a meeting with Indigenous leaders and residential school survivors in Maskwacis, Alta., where he’s expected to deliver an apology for the Roman Catholic Church’s role in residential schools at the site of the former Ermineskin Indian Residential School.
Pope Francis has described his seven-day Canadian tour as a “penitential” pilgrimage to apologize to Indigenous peoples for abuses inflicted by the church.
Thousands of people are making preparations to head to Edmonton to see the pope over the next week, including a number of excited Indigenous Christians from Canada’s north.
