In Canada, 112 churches were attacked by unknown people in the last 3 years (3 photos + 1 video)
It all started with the alleged discovery of a mass burial site of indigenous children on the territory of a former boarding school in the summer of 2021. The world media wrote about it for a long time. Everyone condemned it and it seemed to have been forgotten, but since then a "silent war" with churches has begun throughout Canada.
Then Chief Rosanna Casimir of the Tkemlups te Secwepemc Nation said the remains of 215 children had been found near the site of the Kamloops Indian Residential School, which operated from 1890 until the late 1970s.
What does the church have to do with it? The Catholic Church was involved in running the school in Kamloops until 1969.
Then there were denials that the burials were not that massive and that everything needed to be sorted out thoroughly, but few people were interested in that.
This map shows churches that have either been burned or attacked in the last 3 years.
The parishioners, in horror, keep their own list of churches that have suffered from persecution and meticulously record every incident. But that is where their resistance actually ends.
And the churches, meanwhile, continue to burn. Last Thursday, the Catholic church of Notre-Dame des Sept-Allegres in Trois-Rivières, built in 1914, was destroyed.
The fire was quickly extinguished, but the 110-year-old building cannot be restored due to the extensive fire damage.
It took about 90 firefighters to bring the blaze under control. No information has yet been provided on the circumstances, results or causes of this fire.
While the fire chief declined to comment on the cause or origin of the fire at the end of the day, several testimonies collected on site indicated the presence of flames in a container near the church.
The church building had not been in use for a long time and was purchased by developer Georges Mouradian, who planned to convert the church into residential space, but did not have time. The building was not insured.
On July 4, firefighters fought a fire at the First Presbyterian Church in New Westminster. Then the flames were quickly localized and again the arsonists were not found.
Time will tell how the "war with the churches" will end.