Pope begs forgiveness from Canada's Indigenous peoples

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Pope Francis at the Church of the Sacred Heart in Edmonton, Canada Source: AAP / CIRO FUSCO/EPA

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Pope Francis has told survivors of residential schools in Canada their treatment by the Catholic Church was a "deplorable evil."

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