Indigenous Peoples

Indigenous Pastoral Initiatives Since the Origins of the CCCB

1943 to the Present

(Organized from most recent)

2020
07/10/2020

The Canadian Council of Churches’ (CCC) Commission for Justice and Peace issues a letter to the Minister of Justice and Attorney General to support the Government’s commitment to implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The CCCB is a member Church of the CCC.

2019
27/10/2019

Our Lady of Guadalupe Circle issues Message for the United Nations Year of Indigenous Languages. Message and Video

2018
15/07/2018

Cardinal Gérald C. Lacroix delivers an address as papal envoy on the 200th anniversary of the evangelization of Western and Northern Canada

27/04/2018

CCCB signs an ecumenical letter on the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP)

27/03/2018

CCCB President issues letter to the Indigenous Peoples of Canada

23/02/2018

Bishops across Canada hold Listening Circles with Indigenous Peoples from 23 February to 16 July 2018

2017
29/09/2017

The Canadian Catholic Indigenous Council (formerly Canadian Catholic Aboriginal Council) is expanded with a wider mandate and the addition of new Indigenous and episcopal appointments

2016
12/12/2016

Canadian Catholic Aboriginal Council issues its annual message on the National Day of Prayer in Solidarity with Indigenous Peoples

05/12/2016

Founding of Our Lady of Guadalupe Circle, a Catholic coalition promoting reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples

08/09/2016

Bishop Mark Hagemoen issues letter to the Mackenzie-Fort Smith Diocese on the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (NIMMIWG)

01/05/2016

Bishop Mark Hagemoen issues pastoral letter on the Indian Residential Schools

10/04/2016

Bishop Mark Hagemoen issues letter to the Mackenzie-Fort Smith Diocese on the TRC Calls to Action

31/03/2016

CCCB issues “Catholic responses on Call to Action 48 and questions on the ‘Doctrine of Discovery’”

24/03/2016

Bishop Donald Bolen is interviewed regarding Catholic responses to the TRC Calls to Action

19/03/2016

CCCB issues A Catholic Response to TRC Call to Action 48 (On Adopting and Implementing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples)

19/03/2016

CCCB issues The “Doctrine of Discovery” and Terra Nullius: A Catholic Response

2015
12/06/2015

CCCB Permanent Council issues “Initial Response to the Summary Report and Calls to Action by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission”

02/06/2015

Archbishop J. Michael Miller, C.S.B. issues pastoral letter on the closing of the TRC

29/05/2015

Archbishop Richard Gagnon issues pastoral letter to the First Nations communities and to the faithful of the Archdiocese of Winnipeg

25/05/2015

Archbishop Terrence Prendergast, S.J. issues pastoral letter on reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples