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Pope lands in Canada, set for apologies to Indigenous groups

A group, including people wearing indigenous dress, wait for Pope Francis to arrive Sunday, July 24, 2022, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Pope Francis arrives at Rome's Leonardo da Vinci International airport Sunday, July 24, 2022, to board his flight to Edmonton, Canada, where he will start a six-day pastoral visit to the country. Pope Francis begins a weeklong trip to Canada on Sunday to apologize to Indigenous peoples for the abuses committed by Catholic missionaries in the country's notorious residential schools. (AP Photo/Riccardo de Luca)

FILE - Parishioners stand to receive communion during the rededication ceremony and Sunday Mass at Sacred Heart Church of the First Peoples on July 17, 2022, in Edmonton, Alberta. Pope Francis’ trip to Canada, which begins Sunday July 24, 2022, to apologize for the horrors of church-run Indigenous residential schools marks a radical rethink of the Catholic Church’s missionary legacy in the Americas, spurred on by the first American pope and the discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves at the school sites. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski, File)

Pope lands in Canada, set for apologies to Indigenous groups