Global News published this video item, entitled “MMIWG advocate pushes for Pope Francis to acknowledge “stolen sisters”” – below is their description.
Advocates for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls (MMIWG) accuse the Canadian government of failing to deliver on its pledge to end violence against them.
For Lorelai Williams, whose Indigenous name is Palexelsiya, the cause hits close to home after losing both her aunt and her cousin. She has been advocating on behalf of her “stolen sisters” for more than a decade.
Williams took her message to Edmonton this week in the hopes of capturing Pope Francis’ attention. Neetu Garcha reports.
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Vatican City, officially the Vatican City State, is the Holy See’s independent city state, an enclave within Rome, Italy. The Vatican City State, also known as The Vatican, became independent from Italy with the Lateran Treaty (1929), and it is a distinct territory under “full ownership, exclusive dominion, and sovereign authority and jurisdiction” of the Holy See, itself a sovereign entity of international law, which maintains the city state’s temporal, diplomatic, and spiritual independence. With an area of 49 hectares (121 acres) and a population of about 825, it is the smallest sovereign state in the world by both area and population.
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