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A matter of faith a gathering of Aboriginal Christians

A growing number of Aboriginal communities have looked to their traditional values and spirituality to address the impact of serious crimes and have established healing processes to address the needs of victims, offenders and families. The Aboriginal Corrections Policy Unit, Public Safety Canada, has worked with a number of Aboriginal communities to explore offender and victim treatment within a community healing context. Given the number of Aboriginal communities that have embraced Christian beliefs, the Aboriginal Corrections Policy Unit believed it was important to explore existing or potential healing and restorative processes in and for those communities. This report presents a selection of the wide-ranging views put forward at the Gathering. It has attempted to place those discussions in a framework of six chapters that will inform the reader and, hopefully, elicit further discussion and thought.--Includes text from document.

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