EDMONTON, Canada: Pope Francis will visit on Monday a former residential school in Canada where he is expected to make a historic personal apology to Indigenous survivors of abuse committed over decades at the Catholic-run institutions.

The leader of the world's 1.3 billion Catholics arrived the previous day in the city of Edmonton for a six-day visit, which has long been awaited by the First Nations, Metis and Inuit communities.

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