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November 25, 2016

Indigenous couple live a life of reconciliation

Germaine and Harry Lafond's reconciliation with the Catholic Church has been a life long journey.

OTTAWA – Reconciliation between the Catholic Church and indigenous peoples has been a lifetime journey for Harry and Germaine Lafond.

Published in Canada
April 27, 2016

Church did not ‘weasel’ out of residential school settlement

Archbishop Gerard Pettipas takes issue with a Globe and Mail report that the Catholic Church “weaselled” out of its obligations on Indian residential schools.

A $21-million shortfall on a $25-million fundraising campaign was a fiasco, but it wasn’t an attempt to weasel out of the legal or moral obligations Catholics have in the wake of the residential schools tragedy, Grouard-McLennan Archibishop Gerard Pettipas told The Catholic Register.

Published in Canada
October 1, 2014

Canada rejects UN resolution on native rights

Vicklyn Ebanes, 44, poses outside a small-scale gold mine she operates with her husband in the Diwalwal area on the Philippines’ southern island of Mindanao. The Canadian government has objected to a UN resolution to advance rights of indigenous peoples.

The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops may have to re-fight a battle with the federal government over the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. 

Published in Canada
December 10, 2012

Message for the 2012 Day of Prayer in Solidarity with Indigenous People

Saint Kateri Tekakwitha

In response to an invitation earlier this year by the Canadian Catholic Aboriginal Council

Published in Vatican
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