http://ekklesia.co.uk/tags View tagged content by tags en http://ekklesia.co.uk/node/7287 <div class="field field-type-text field-field-teaser"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item"><p>Church leaders in Canada want action to follow a public apology by Prime Minister Stephen Harper to victims of a situation where aboriginal children were placed in residential schools run by churches in a policy of enforced assimilation.</p> </div> </div> </div> http://ekklesia.co.uk/node/7287#comment People and Power News Brief aboriginal people canada churches forced assimilation human rights World News Sat, 14 Jun 2008 11:33:28 +0100 Ecumenical News International 7287 at http://ekklesia.co.uk http://ekklesia.co.uk/node/7280 <div class="field field-type-text field-field-teaser"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item"><p>The Canadian Government has followed churches and apologised for forcing 150,000 aboriginal children to attend state-funded Christian boarding schools aimed at assimilating them.</p> </div> </div> </div> http://ekklesia.co.uk/node/7280#comment Education and Culture Religion and Society News Brief aboriginal aboriginal people apology apology for slavery boarding schools canada World News Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:23:08 +0100 staff writers 7280 at http://ekklesia.co.uk http://ekklesia.co.uk/node/6754 <div class="field field-type-text field-field-teaser"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item"><p>A festival atmosphere was evident on the lawns outside Parliament House in Canberra yesterday. Thousands of people celebrated outside in the wake of Kevin Rudd's apology to the Stolen Generations. Doug Hynd was there to see it.</p> </div> </div> </div> http://ekklesia.co.uk/node/6754#comment Globalisation and Development People and Power News Brief aboriginal people apology Australia faith indigenous people kevin rudd parliament World News Thu, 14 Feb 2008 08:07:21 +0000 Doug Hynd 6754 at http://ekklesia.co.uk