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Pope Francis puts on an indigenous headdress during a meeting with indigenous communities, including First Nations, Metis and Inuit, at Our Lady of Seven Sorrows Catholic Church in Maskwacis, near Edmonton, Canada, Monday, July 25, 2022. Pope Francis begins a "penitential" visit to Canada to beg forgiveness from survivors of the country's residential schools, where Catholic missionaries contributed to the "cultural genocide" of generations of Indigenous children by trying to stamp...

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In Canada, pope apologizes for residential schools’ ‘catastrophic’ effects on Indigenous peoples

by Nicole Winfield Associated Press, and Peter Smith Associated PressJuly 25, 2022

FILE — Colombian nun Gloria Cecilia Narvaez, who was held captive for nearly five years by al-Qaida-linked militants, listens to a question during a press conference in Bogota, Colombia, in this Friday, Nov. 19, 2021 file photo. Pope Francis authorized spending up to 1 million euro to free Narvaez, Cardinal Angelo Becciu testified at the Vatican's big financial fraud trial Thursday, May 5, 2022, revealing previously top secret negotiations that Francis authorized to hire a British...

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Cardinal: Pope OK’d 1M euros to free captive nun

by Nicole Winfield Associated PressMay 5, 2022

Members of the Assembly of First Nations perform in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Thursday, March 31, 2022. Pope Francis has welcomed First Nations delegations to the Vatican. They are seeking an apology for the Catholic Church's role in running Canada's notorious residential schools for Indigenous children. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

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Pope makes historic Indigenous apology for Canada abuses

by Nicole Winfield Associated PressApril 1, 2022

Pope Francis speaks during a ceremony at the Karatepe refugee camp, on the northeastern Aegean island of Lesbos, Greece, Sunday.

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Pope chides Europe, comforts migrants on Aegean isle

by Nicole Winfield Associated Press, Trisha Thomas Associated Press, and Derek Gatopoulos Associated PressDecember 5, 2021

Pope Francis speaks with journalists on board an Alitalia aircraft enroute from Bratislava back to Rome, Wednesday.

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Pope: No place for politics in Communion flap

by Nicole Winfield Associated PressSeptember 15, 2021

Pope Francis prays as he meets members of the Jewish community in Bratislava, Slovakia, Monday, Sept. 13, 2021. Ahead of a rigorous two days hop-scotching around Slovakia, Francis is spending Monday in Bratislava where the highlight of his visit is the encounter at the capital's Holocaust memorial, built on the site of a synagogue destroyed by the communist regime in the 1960s. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

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Pope honors Slovak Holocaust victims

by Nicole Winfield Associated Press, and Karel Janicek Associated PressSeptember 13, 2021

Rescuers work by the wreckage of a cable car after it collapsed near the summit of the Stresa-Mottarone line in the Piedmont region, northern Italy, Sunday, May 23, 2021. A cable car taking visitors to a mountaintop view of some of northern Italy's most picturesque lakes plummeted to the ground Sunday and then tumbled down the slope, killing at least 13 people and sending two children to the hospital, authorities said. (Italian Vigili del Fuoco Firefighters via AP)

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Italian judge blames cable car deaths on technician

by Nicole Winfield Associated PressMay 30, 2021

Artist Alessia Babrow holds the Vatican stamps next to her street art during an interview with the Associated Press, at the Vatican, May 14.

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Vatican sued over street art stamp

by Nicole Winfield Associated PressMay 25, 2021

Rescuers work by the wreckage of a cable car after it collapsed near the summit of the Stresa-Mottarone line in the Piedmont region, northern Italy, Sunday, May 23, 2021. Italy’s transport minister was heading Monday, May 24, 2021 to the scene of a cable car disaster that killed 14 people when the lead cable apparently snapped and the cabin careened back down the mountain until it pulled off the line and crashed to the ground. (Vigili del Fuoco Firefighters via AP)

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Investigators probe cable car brake issue

by Nicole Winfield Associated Press, and Charlene Pele Associated PressMay 24, 2021

Rescuers work by the wreckage of a cable car after it collapsed near the summit of the Stresa-Mottarone line in the Piedmont region, northern Italy, Sunday.

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Cable car plunges to ground in Italy, killing 14

by Nicole Winfield Associated PressMay 23, 2021