Manitoba archdioceses seek to do part in national reconciliation – Winnipeg Free Press

Sep. 29, 2021

ROMAN Catholics in Manitoba will soon have a chance to participate in a three-year fundraising and education campaign to promote reconciliation.

The campaign in partnership with Indigenous people and organizations will begin later this fall, says Archbishop Albert LeGatt of the Archdiocese of St. Boniface.

“We are going to start with education in the parishes, make the case to the faithful for why it is important to donate,” he said.

The provincial campaign — part of a $30-million national fundraising and educational effort by the bishops across Canada — is “about more than raising money… it’s about showing, in word and action, that we want to pursue reconciliation through encounters between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people.”

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