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ROME: Pope Francis said on Saturday the decades-long abuse of indigenous schoolchildren across Canada amounted to “genocide”, as he warned upon his return to Rome that he needed to slow down his travel pace — or resign. During his six-day “penitential pilgrimage” across Canada this week, the 85-year-old pope offered a historic apology to the First Nations, Metis and Inuit …

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