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Reuters
Reuters
Environment
By Philip Pullella and Kevin Dougherty

Canada leaders tell pope of horrors of indigenous schools

Pope Francis attends a welcome ceremony at the Residence of the Governor General of Canada at the Citadelle in Quebec City, Canada July 27, 2022. REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane

Canada's leaders on Wednesday pointedly told Pope Francis of the horrors of Church-run residential schools for indigenous and the pontiff lamented that many were still living in poverty in one of the world's richest countries.

Francis flew east across the country from Edmonton in the prairies of Alberta to Quebec on the St. Lawrence River for meetings with the country's leadership in one of the oldest cities in the Americas.

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