Indigenous

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Pope Francis’s visit to Papua New Guinea will take him to a remote part of the South Pacific island nation where Christianity is a recent addition to traditional spiritual beliefs developed over millennia.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Pope Francis’s visit to Papua New Guinea will take him to a remote part of the South Pacific island nation where Christianity is a recent addition to traditional spiritual beliefs developed over millennia.

EDMONTON — Video from police cruisers has revealed new details about a shooting by officers that resulted in the death of a 15-year-old boy south of Edmonton.

VICTORIA — The Canadian Medical Association says it will formally apologize for the role doctors played in harming members of Canada's Indigenous communities.

WINNIPEG — The Manitoba government is looking at ways to increase monitoring and surveillance of garbage trucks and landfills following the slayings of four Indigenous women whose remains were dumped in trash bins.

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Two loggers have been killed by bow and arrow after allegedly encroaching the land of the uncontacted Mashco Piro Indigenous tribe deep in Peru's Amazon, according to a rights group.

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Two loggers have been killed by bow and arrow after allegedly encroaching the land of the uncontacted Mashco Piro Indigenous tribe deep in Peru's Amazon, according to a rights group.

WETASKIWIN, Alta. — A band councillor with an Alberta First Nation is calling on two RCMP officers to resign after the shooting death of a 15-year-old boy.

WEST VANCOUVER, B.C. — British Columbia is moving ahead with 13 new First Nations primary care centres in the province, with 10 scheduled to start operating this fall.

LEIPZIG, Germany (AP) — Leipzig midfielder Amadou Haidara won't be available for Mali after he was concussed during a win over Bayer Leverkusen, his club said Monday.