Pope Francis greets a woman in a wheelchair during his general audience in the San Damaso Courtyard of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican June 2, 2021. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)People at Victoria Park in Hong Kong hold candles June 4, 2021, during the 32nd anniversary of the crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1989. (CNS photo/Lam Yik, Reuters)Hughes Van Ellis, a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, reacts with a salute as he and fellow survivor Viola Fletcher listen to President Joe Biden deliver remarks on the 100th anniversary of the massacre during a visit to the Greenwood Cultural Center in Tulsa, Okla., June 1, 2021. The massacre, which was one of the most severe incidents of racial violence in U.S. history, began May 31, 1921, and lasted for two days. It left somewhere between 30 and 300 people dead, mostly African Americans, and destroyed over 1,400 homes and businesses. (CNS photo/Carlos Barria, Reuters)Kamloops residents and First Nations people gather to listen to drummers and singers at a memorial in front of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia May 31, 2021. Indigenous leaders and residential school survivors in Canada are calling on officials to conduct a thorough investigation of every former residential school in the country after the remains of more than 200 children were found on the grounds of the Kamloops school. (CNS photo/Dennis Owen, Reuters)An image of Our Lady, Undoer of Knots, is carried during an evening Marian prayer service led by Pope Francis in the Vatican Gardens May 31, 2021. The service finished a monthlong rosary marathon to pray for the end of the COVID-19 pandemic. (CNS photo/Romano Siciliani, pool)Graduates toss their hats after receiving their diplomas at the graduation and commissioning ceremony for the Naval Academy’s class of 2021 in Annapolis, Md., May 28, 2021. (CNS photo/Kevin Lamarque, Reuters)
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