Dozens of Christian churches on Indigenous lands in Canada have been torched or vandalized since June
Countersignal.com estimates there have been about 45 acts of arson or vandalism to Canadian Christian churches or places of worship since June
The attacks came after the discovery of 1,000 graves of indigenous children near residential schools - many of which were run by the Catholic Church
These institutions were part of an abusive system that the country s Truth and Reconciliation Commission called cultural genocide in 2015
No arrests have been made, although several churches in Canada are completely burned down
The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops said the pope will meet separately at the Vatican with the Canada’s three biggest Indigenous groups in December
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A spree of church arsons have occurred across Canada. In less than two weeks, seven churches have burned following the discovery of over 1,000 unmarked graves on the land of former boarding schools for Indigenous assimilation.
The term “cultural genocide” has been used to describe the treatment of Indigenous children from the 1880s to the 1990s throughout Canada. Over 110 years, roughly 150,000 Indigenous children were sent to boarding schools to be stripped of their language and culture, facing horrific emotional, physical and sexual abuse in the process, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission reports [via BBC].
At least 130 of these schools many run by the Catholic Church were open throughout Canada until as late as 1996. It’s estimated that up to 6,000 neglected children died of malnutrition and disease at these residential schools, though the true number may never be known as many records were destroyed.