Two people were killed and two others were injured in an early morning shooting spree in a suburb of Vancouver, British Columbia, that may have preyed on homeless people, authorities said Monday. “Four people were shot by what is believed to be a lone gunman,” Ghalib Bhayani, a chief superintendent …
Read More »Pope Francis apologizes for ‘devastating’ school abuses in Canada
MASKWACIS, Alberta — Pope Francis issued a historic apology Monday for the Catholic Church’s cooperation with Canada’s “catastrophic” policy of Indigenous residential schools, saying the forced assimilation of Native peoples into Christian society destroyed their cultures, severed families and marginalized generations. “I am deeply sorry,” Francis said to applause from …
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