Pope to acknowledge suffering at Canadian schools

Religious abuse in Canada until the 1970’s. 

From the 19th century until the 1970s, more than 150,000 Indian children were made to attend state-funded Christian schools as an effort to assimilate them into Canadian society. Nearly 75 percent of the 130 schools were run by Catholic missionary congregations.

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