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Pope Francis has expressed his pain over the discovery in Canada of the remains of 215 indigenous students of church-run boarding schools and pressed religious and political authorities to shed light on this sad affair.
But he didn t offer the apology sought by the Canadian prime minister.
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From the 19th century until the 1970s, more than 150,000 indigenous children were forced to attend state-funded Christian schools, the majority of them run by Roman Catholic missionary congregations, in a campaign to assimilate them into Canadian society.
The Canadian government has admitted that physical and sexual abuse was rampant in the schools, with students beaten for speaking their native languages.
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Pope Francis expressed his pain over the discovery of the remains of 215 Indigenous students of church-run boarding schools in Canada. He made no reference to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's insistence.