'Not in solidarity with us': Indigenous leaders call for church arsons to stop

 
TORONTO --
Residential school survivors and Indigenous leaders are calling for unknown arsonists to stop burning down churches after more than a dozen Christian places of worship were set on fire and vandalized recently.
The fires are believed to be in reaction to the confirmation of more than a thousand unmarked graves so far at several former residential school sites.
“Burning down churches is not in solidarity with us indigenous people. As I said we do not destroy people's places of worship,” said Jenn Allan-Riley, an assistant Pentecostal minister at Living Waters Church, in a press conference on Monday.
“We're concerned about the burning and defacing of churches bringing more strife, depression and anxiety to those already in pain and mourning."

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