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by bcadmin | Nov 14, 2022 | Associated Press, Church History, Church in the US, Indigenous peoples, Maryland, Native Americans, News | 0 |
To many, St. Clement’s Island is best-known as the spot where roughly 150 European colonists arrived on March 25, 1634, and held the first Catholic Mass in the British American colonies.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 17, 2022 | Associated Press, Church in the US, Indigenous peoples, Native Americans, News | 0 |
Starting in 1819, the U.S. enacted laws and policies to establish and support the schools. The stated goal was to “civilize” Native Americans, Alaska Natives and Native Hawaiians, but that was often carried out through abusive practices.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 15, 2022 | Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Indigenous peoples, News | 0 |
As a child, Virgil Blacklance heard stories about Indian boarding schools, one of which his father attended.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 14, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Indigenous peoples, Native Americans, News, Obituary | 0 |
A memorial Mass is set for Oct. 21 for Sacheen Littlefeather, the woman whose appearance at the Oscars ceremony nearly 50 years ago provoked much outrage at the time.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 4, 2022 | Associated Press, Church History, Church in Mexico, Church in the Americas, Indigenous peoples, Mexico, News | 0 |
Indigenous symbols like a feather headdress, an axe and a shield have been found under layers of lime plaster at open-air chapels in a convent just south of Mexico City, experts announced Monday.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 20, 2022 | Canada, Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, clerical sexual abuse, France, Indigenous peoples, Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, News, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau | 0 |
The French Ministry of Justice announced that France will not extradite Oblate Father Joannès Rivoire to Canada.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 13, 2022 | Brazil, Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, Indigenous peoples, News, Peru | 0 |
After the death in the Brazilian forest of an Indigenous man who was thought to be the last of his tribe, Amazonian church leaders said it is more important than ever to protect the region’s remaining semi-nomadic, isolated peoples.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 8, 2022 | Canada, Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, First Nations, Indigenous peoples, mass shooting, News | 0 |
The Catholic bishops of Saskatchewan offered prayers for everyone affected by the deadly stabbing rampage that left 12 dead — including the two suspected killers — and at least 18 injured.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 30, 2022 | Associated Press, Canada, First Nations, Indigenous peoples, Native Americans, News | 0 |
The Canadian government raised the Survivors’ Flag on Parliament Hill Monday as a way to honor Indigenous Peoples forced to attend the country’s notorious residential schools.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 29, 2022 | Amazon region, Brazil, Brazilian Conference of National Bishops, Church in the Americas, indigenous communities, Indigenous peoples, Jair Bolsonaro, lead, News | 0 |
Violence against indigenous peoples in Brazil grew in 2021, reaching its highest level since 2013, according to an agency of the bishops’ conference.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 18, 2022 | Archbishop Roque Paloschi, Brazil, Featured, Indigenous Missionary Council, Indigenous peoples, News, U.S. & World News | 0 |
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.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 1, 2022 | Canada, Catholic News Service, First Nations, Indigenous peoples, Native Americans, News, Pope Francis, Pope in Canada | 0 |
At the end of his six-day visit to Canada, Pope Francis, sitting in a wheelchair, said goodbye to Chief Wilton Littlechild, also sitting in a wheelchair.
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