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from Anglican Journal
When Geronimo Henry stood up to speak at a May 3 meeting between Indigenous community leaders, residential school survivors and Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby in Toronto, he told the story of his 11 years in the Mohawk Institute residential school near Brantford, Ont.... “Why did it take the churches and the government so long to bring out this apology? Don’t they know the schools closed in 1970?” asked Henry. “That’s when they should have come and gathered us all up and said they were sorry. But they never.”... When Welby spoke, he replied, “The Church of England and the Anglican Church of Canada year after year after year had the choice of saying ‘this is not what should happen.’ And I don’t understand why they didn’t.” The church “deliberately colluded, went along with … —[and] invoked the name of God to support—the most terrible evil,” he said.
from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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