This ratio involves calculating the number of expected deaths in residential schools based on reported death rates in the Canadian population during the same time period among children of the same ...

FOLKENFLIK: So about 16 years ago, the Canadian government sets up a truth and reconciliation commission to grapple with the true legacy of the residential school system. The question of unmarked ...

PHOTOS: Pope: Canadian residential schools were cultural 'genocide' In the main apology of his Canada trip, delivered Monday, Francis spoke of “cultural destruction,” but he didn’t use the ...

“In solemn prayer and reflection, the Executive Committee of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops mourns the painful legacy of the former Indian Residential Schools and reaffirms its ...

St. Joseph's Mission was just one of 139 Canadian residential schools, most run by the Catholic Church, that operated officially from the 1880s until the 1990s. Like boarding schools in the U.S ...

Canadian researchers and advocates have published a list of more than 100 priests and religious workers who served in the country’s controversial Indigenous “residential schools” that ...

ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) — Pope Francis agreed Saturday that the attempt to eliminate Indigenous culture in Canada through a church-run residential school system amounted to a cultural ...