Pope gives back sixty-two artefacts from Vatican Museums to Canada.

(MENAFN) Pope Leo XIV has returned 62 artefacts from the Vatican Museums’ collection to Canada, originally belonging to Indigenous communities. The items were handed over on Saturday to the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB), which plans to return them to the communities of origin.

A joint statement from the Vatican and the CCCB emphasized that the gesture is intended as a “concrete sign of dialogue, respect and fraternity.” The artefacts, originating from various Indigenous communities, were part of the Vatican Missionary Exhibition of 1925, encouraged by Pope Pius XI. They had been sent to Rome by Catholic missionaries between 1923 and 1925 and later became part of the Vatican Museums’ Anima Mundi Ethnological Museum collection.

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