Australia First Nation people - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Mon, 01 Aug 2022 07:54:45 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Australia First Nation people - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Pope called on to apologise to Australia's First Nations people https://cathnews.co.nz/2022/08/01/pope-called-on-to-apologise-to-australias-first-nations-people/ Mon, 01 Aug 2022 07:55:55 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=149903 Stolen Generation advocates in Western Australia are calling on the Pope to come to Australia and apologise to First Nations people taken from their families and/or abused in missions. The call follows news of Pope Francis visiting Canada to apologised for the church's role in schools where indigenous children were abused, branding forced cultural assimilation Read more

Pope called on to apologise to Australia's First Nations people... Read more]]> Stolen Generation advocates in Western Australia are calling on the Pope to come to Australia and apologise to First Nations people taken from their families and/or abused in missions.

The call follows news of Pope Francis visiting Canada to apologised for the church's role in schools where indigenous children were abused, branding forced cultural assimilation "evil" and a "disastrous error".

More than half the testimonies from victims during the the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Australia were in relation to religious institutions.

Chair of the Western Australian Stolen Generations Aboriginal Corporation, Jim Morrison, says an apology from the pope would serve as an acknowledgement and help in healing.

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