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Reuters
Reuters
World
By Rod Nickel and Philip Pullella

Pope again asks for forgiveness as tour ends in Canada's north

Pope Francis attends a public program with Inuit traditions in a plaza outside Nakasuk Elementary School in Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada July 29, 2022. REUTERS/Carlos Osorio

Pope Francis again asked for forgiveness after meeting on Friday with residential school survivors in the Arctic territory of Nunavut, the last stop in his six-day visit to Canada to apologize to indigenous people for abuse in government schools run by the Roman Catholic Church.

After a private meeting in a small elementary school, Francis said hearing survivors' stories had "only renewed in me the indignation and shame that I have felt for months" at the harm done to them. His plane departed Canada for Rome on Friday evening.

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