Justice
United Church supports translation of Bible into Indigenous languages
In a bygone era, the Bible was a tool for subverting Indigenous cultures, but recent translations aim to preserve endangered Indigenous tongues
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Justice
United Church apology 10 years ago helped set bar for federal government
The church apologized for its involvement in running residential schools for Indigenous children, and for all the pain and hardship those schools caused
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UCC in Focus
United Church searches archives for those dead at residential schools
As the Truth and Reconciliation Commission gears up, the United Church and others are scouring the archives for names of children who died at the schools and whose names have been forgotten
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Justice
An Indigenous mother searches for answers on B.C.’s Highway of Tears
Some highways have souls; others are merely pavement. The soul of Highway 16, the 720-km-long branch of the Trans-Canada that spans northern British Columbia from Prince George to Prince Rupert, is deeply troubled. It’s a mean road. Logging trucks, as rickety as they are over-laden, roar its length day and…
