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Anne’s Survivor Calls for Pope to Apologize for Church’s Role in Indian Residential Schools
THUNDER BAY, ON (February 20, 2019): Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) Grand Chief Alvin Fiddler supports the efforts of Residential School Survivor Evelyn Korkmaz who will call for Pope Francis to apologize for the Catholic Church’s role in the Indian Residential School System during the Vatican’s 2019 global bishops meeting to address clerical sexual abuse in Rome […]
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Making ministry Indigenous – Anglican Journal
February 19, 2019 Since the missionaries arrived, there has been a disciplined and dedicated attempt to make Indigenous churches look, act and feel like their non-Indigenous counterparts. We can say, once and for all, it was a failure. It isn’t that Indigenous congregations don’t have the means or capacity to mimic their counterparts. From the […]
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Music program boosts kids’ self-esteem, decreases suicide risk in Indigenous communities – Anglican Journal
January 30, 2019 A community project in the Six Nations of the Grand River Territory, Ohsweken, Ont., is helping fight the Indigenous youth suicide epidemic through the power of music. Canon Norman Casey, who served the Six Nations Anglican Parish as priest before his retirement, has been involved with Music for the Spirit since its inception about seven years ago. The idea grew […]
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Needs Improvement: Educators make progress on Indigenous curriculum, but more work to do – The Catholic Register
December 13, 2018 In the wake of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s call to include more study on Indigenous issues in school curriculum, it appears educators across the country are taking the recommendations to heart. In its second report card on how Canadian provinces have responded specifically to TRC Call to Action #62 — “to […]
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Canadian bishops talk with pope about abuse policy, indigenous peoples – National Catholic Reporter
Vatican City — The leaders of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops said the concerns of the indigenous peoples in Canada and the bishops’ updated sexual abuse policies were among the issues they spoke about with Pope Francis. Each of those issues is an ongoing concern that is “dear to his heart,” Bishop Lionel Gendron […]
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CoGS roundup: Hiltz calls for apology for ‘spiritual abuse’ of Indigenous people – Anglican Journal
December 6, 2018 The Anglican Church of Canada should apologize to the country’s Indigenous people for having “demonized” their traditional spirituality, Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, told Council of General Synod (CoGS) November 24. “There’s a need to do something by way of an apology, and we need to do […]
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Speaking Out: How can I be a part of reconciliation? – The Catholic Register
November 14, 2018 I love my Church, but I admit I have at times found it difficult dealing with its sins against the Indigenous community. One of those times was last month, attending a panel discussion at St. Boniface Cathedral on reconciliation. Hosted by the Archdiocese of St. Boniface, it featured several leading voices in […]
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Parliament of the World’s Religions 2018 Media Highlights
TORONTO, Oct. 31, 2018 – The Parliament of the World’s Religions officially opens tomorrow. The Parliament of the World’s Religions, the largest global interfaith gathering, will be held in Toronto from November 1 – 7 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. The gathering will welcome close to 10,000 delegates from 80 countries, representing nearly 200 […]
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A higher level of spiritual consciousness’: U of T at the Parliament of the World’s Religions – UofT News
At a time when global society seems to be more divided than ever, more than 10,000 people of some 200 faiths are expected to come together at the Metro Convention Centre starting tomorrow for the Parliament of the World’s Religions. And U of T will be very much a part of the proceedings. The forum […]
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Father Raymond J. de Souza: At the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, symbols abound. Progress? Not so much – National Post
Sixty-six of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s ‘calls to action’ are either not started or just at the proposed action stage Public discussion about the “calls to action” from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) have moved from distraction to distraction. In the spring it was about whether Pope Francis should visit to repeat, in […]
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