On March 5 and 6, 150 people, including nearly 75 Indigenous people, gathered in the Diocese of Trois-Rivières at the invitation of the organization Mission Chez Nous, which marks its 30th anniversary this year, to celebrate, take stock of the pastoral presence
Venezuelan parishes and human rights organizations are demanding "a trustworthy, expeditious and transparent" investigation into the death of Father Josiah K'Okal, a missionary who went missing Jan. 1 and was found dead a day later near the town of Tucupita.
The letter appealing
According to the Catholic Civil Rights League's database, at least 85 Catholic churches have been set ablaze or vandalized since the unproven discovery May 27, 2021, of 215 suspected unmarked graves near the former Kamloops Indian Residential School.
Police are investigating the latest
Fifteen-year-old Daiana Fonseca wanted to attend World Youth Day in Lisbon since she first heard about it in 2022. She thought, however, that traveling to Portugal would be impossible for her, a member of a Black rural community in Feira de Santana,
The Catholic Church formally "repudiates those concepts that fail to recognize the inherent human rights of Indigenous peoples, including what has become known as the legal and political 'doctrine of discovery,'" a Vatican statement said.
Issued March 30 by the dicasteries for Culture
Canada's bishops wound up their first in-person meetings in three years with discussion of concrete steps toward reconciliation with Indigenous Canadians.
At the end of four days of plenary meetings of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops in Cornwall, Ontario, Edmonton Archbishop Richard
Last year was marked by the dramatic increase of violence and rights violations against Indigenous peoples in Brazil, said the Brazilian bishops' Indigenous Missionary Council.
"This ... was the most disastrous in the country's history," said Archbishop Roque Paloschi of Porto Velho, president
After many months of waiting, Pope Francis arrived in Canada on July 24 for his “penitential pilgrimage” to meet with, listen to and apologize to members of Canada’s First Nation, Métis and Inuit communities, especially those who experienced abuse or attempts at
During his much-anticipated six-day trip to Canada, which he called a “penitential pilgrimage,” Pope Francis offered heartfelt apologies for the Church’s role in the abuses committed at Canada’s residential schools, where, for over a century, the Canadian government had a policy of
The planned destruction of the families, languages, cultures and traditions of the Indigenous communities of Canada through the residential school system was "genocide," Pope Francis said.
Asked by an Indigenous reporter why he did not use the word genocide while in Canada, the