From Canada-Downtown Vancouver’s churches are coming together for a rare joint service and other special observances on Sunday to show their commitment to reconciling with Canada’s Aboriginal Peoples.
Clergy from the United, Anglican, Catholic, Baptist and Presbyterian churches are co-operating in the daylong event, which includes a combined service at St. Andrew’s Wesley United Church, a sacred fire, a street fair in the Sheraton Wall Centre courtyard, ecumenical prayers at First Baptist Church and other public rituals.
The Christian event is timed to coincide with the release on Tuesday of the final report of Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The commission, or TRC, has spent six years researching what happened to about 150,000 aboriginals who were required to attend church-run residential schools until nearly all the institutions were closed by the early 1970s.
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http://blogs.vancouversun.com/2015/05/29/canadian-churches-still-overcoming-guilt-about-residential-schools/#__federated=1
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