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Assembly of First Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde said on Wednesday that a delegation from Canada will visit the Vatican in December to press for a papal apology for the Catholic Church’s role in residential schools.

"This is really part of truth and part of the healing and reconciliation process for survivors to hear the apology from the highest position within the Roman Catholic church, which is the Pope," he stated.

Bellegarde's announcement came as another discovery of unmarked graves at the site of a former residential school near Cranbrook, B.C. was announced. He said it was "validation of what the survivors have been saying: that there are unmarked graves and that there has been death in these institutions." Bellegarde added that all sites across Canada “need to be investigated properly.”

Cowessess First Nation in Saskatchewan also recently announced it had located an estimated 751 unmarked graves at the site of the former Marieval Residential School, a few weeks after an estimated 215 unmarked graves were found in Kamloops, B.C.

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