Posted on Jun 30, 2021

Four Catholic churches have burned down on native land in Canada in last week

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At least four Catholic churches on native land in Canada have burned down in the last seven days, as the nation reels from the recent discoveries of more than 750 unidentified remains, many of them children, found in unmarked graves at the country’s so-called “residential schools”, often run by the Catholic church.

On Saturday morning, in the province of British Columbia, St. Ann’s Catholic Church on the Upper Similkameen Indian Band’s land went up in flames, and later that day Chopaka Catholic on the Lower Similkameen Band’s land burned down as well, according to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

The RCMP said it was investigating the fires in connection with two other church fires from last week, when churches on Penticton and Osoyoos Indian Band lands burned down. No arrests have been made.

Four Catholic churches have burned down on native land in Canada in last week

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SSgt Richard Kensinger

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I remain enrages to this day about the profound sexual abuse of youngsters and persistent covering of these crimes. I divorced the church and provide clinical consultation at no charge to adult survivors in the Altoona-Johnstown Diocese. I regard the Church as desecrated on both issues. I retain my faith in Jesus and every day I do his work in the community where I reside.
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LTC Stephen Conway

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My wife is upset because people want to cancel Canada day tomorrow over this just like the cancel culture is happening in the USA. My wife still believes in Canada Day. SFC Michael Hasbun

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LTC Stephen Conway

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1stSgt Nelson Kerr my wife is also upset because they keep talking as it's all the residential school kids died. She was one of the residential school kids at the end of the program. Yes, many died the majority lived. This was not Auschwitz. Yesterday, I saw a t-shirt saying people who involved in genocide do not deserve Canadian land. Again, it is extremism. Prime Minister Stephen Harper made a formal apology in 2007. Restitution is being made and case workers have paid 20 to $40,000 a piece to surviving members of my wife's family who was traumatized in the residential school. My wife's case is still pending

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LTC Stephen Conway

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SFC Kelly Fuerhoff my wife agrees with some of it but not in getting rid of Canada day. She wants those charged and put in jail and she's really upset at the media because they're portraying as if most of the indigenous people died. She was a Survivor and I would say 95% survived. Many are alcoholics and drug addicts. My wife even knows One Elder who buried bodies at the pound maker grounds in St Albert, Alberta because it used to be a residential school area and he told my wife they are in unmarked Graves. That's why I am not so surprised cuz my wife told this to me 10 years ago. It is traumatic. Yesterday it was Idle No more Flags alongside the upside down K in flag with kid palm prints. There was a third flag that I couldn't really see. It was peaceful protest and about ninety-seven degrees Fahrenheit outside. We walked by as part of a walk do the capital of moving across a huge bridge but we stopped for about an hour and my wife ran into a cousin of hers. Maybe I'm a little wrong but Canada has already apologized and made restitution and the flags have been at half-mast since the middle of June. Canada has most of the same Us Media channels and sees all the same crap down in the USA

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1stSgt Nelson Kerr

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SSG John Oliver This is not realybthe past manynof the victims and The criminals are still alive I was 42 when it eneed so it is nearly current events.

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