Pope Francis Holds Mass in Quebec During Visit to Canada to Apologize to Indigenous Community

Sputnik brings you a live broadcast of a morning mass at the National Shrine of Saint Anne de Beaupre in Quebec which is being held by Pope Francis on Thursday, July 28.

The Pope arrived in Canada last Sunday for a visit which he said could "heal the wrongs done to Indigenous people by the Roman Catholic Church." He has been attending a series of public and private events dedicated to indigenous communities.

From the 19th century until the 1970s, about 150,000 children from Canada's indigenous communities were forcibly sent to state-funded boarding schools run by the Catholic Church in an attempt to "Christianize" them.