Assembly of First Nations announces 13 delegates to meet Pope Francis at the Vatican

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A chief and residential school survivor says he will be looking for justice and healing when he leads the Assembly of First Nations delegation to meet with Pope Francis next month at the Vatican.

“We do this to seek true reconciliation,” Norman Yakeleya, Assembly of First Nations regional chief for the Northwest Territories, said Thursday.On Thursday, the AFN announced 13 delegates, including Yakeleya, will be going to the Vatican from Dec. 14 to 21. Those chosen represent First Nations across the country and include residential school survivors and two youth delegates.

The group will have a one-hour meeting with the Pope on Dec. 20 when they expect to talk about different themes including the 10 principles of reconciliation and unmarked graves at the sites of former residential schools. He said the group will ask Pope Francis to deliver an apology for the Catholic Church's role in residential schools. But, he said, the discussion must go further because “it's also important to think about what happens in a post-apology world.”Over a century, an estimated 150,000 Indigenous children were forced to attend residential schools. More than 60 per cent of the schools were run by the Catholic Church.

The delegation's theme is how Indigenous Peoples and the Catholic Church can come together toward healing and reconciliation.Former AFN national chief Phil Fontaine from Sagkeeng First Nation in Manitoba said he hopes Pope Francis will commit to an apology in Canada during the delegation's visit to Rome.

 

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When you’re there take note of the 18 karat flag posts among other riches, how congregations have had to pay for the abuses of boys at the hands of prients instead of the Vatican that never sent a dime and how they have lived while your people have suffered at their hands! Why go

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