{"id":47989,"date":"2021-07-14T18:24:20","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T22:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=47989"},"modified":"2021-09-23T01:30:34","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T05:30:34","slug":"persecution-alarm-the-church-attacks-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/persecution-alarm-the-church-attacks-in-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Persecution Alarm: The Church Attacks In Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"

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[SD Note: The extent of “protests” against boarding schools once operated by Catholics that harbored indigenous children in Canada has reached a critical level and hopefully will now begin to diminish. If it continues further, a huge alarm of persecution should be rung, not just in Canada but in the U.S. and other nations, where those who so choose can find or conjure reasons for torching churches and defacing statues, even if those reasons are flawed, often profoundly — as in the Canadian situation (where yes there was abuse and neglect by the Catholics who operated them but the deaths of Indian schoolchildren in Catholic schools cannot, for the main part, be placed at the doorstep of Catholicism; the government was more responsible, as were simple circumstances such as outbreaks of tuberculosis, smallpox, and the 1918 influenza.]<\/p>\n

From the New York Post:<\/em><\/p>\n

\"US<\/em>One day this month in Canada,\u00a010 Catholic churches were vandalized in a single city, Calgary. In the last month, arsonists and vandals have attacked dozens of Canadian churches,\u00a0burning some entirely to the ground.<\/p>\n

America has 70.5 million Catholics; Canada, with just over a 10th of the population, has close to 13 million. So this is a big story. Yet the US media aren\u2019t interested in reporting our northern neighbor\u2019s plague of church burnings \u2014\u00a0except to suggest it\u2019s understandable.<\/p>\n

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From the Countersignal:<\/em><\/p>\n

Terrorists are attacking and burning down churches across Canada with impunity.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a reality most Canadians only thought possible for Middle Eastern countries like Syria, where ISIS has bombarded and razed dozens of Christian heritage sites in the name of Islam.\u00a0Now, after nearly six years of Liberals calling Canadians racist and fanning the flames of hatred, hate crimes are becoming commonplace against Christians in Canada. Things have gotten so bad that even our American neighbours are beginning to worry.<\/p>\n

Rightly so.\u00a0The Counter Signal<\/em> has kept a close eye on these terrorist attacks, reporting on the scene just hours after a fire in a refugee church.\u00a0Our information shows that since June, there have been 45 attacks<\/a> on Christian and mainly Roman Catholic congregations. Of those, 17 of them have been scorched or burnt to a crisp<\/a> in suspicious circumstances.<\/p>\n

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From Catholic World Report:<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u2018Sentiment is a dangerous thing. Truth and reconciliation both suffer when it is weaponized.\u2019<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Over the past fortnight, some dozen churches in Canada, many serving indigenous people, were torched. A dozen more, most in non-indigenous contexts, were\u00a0vandalized<\/a>. \u201cBurn it\u00a0all<\/a>\u00a0down,\u201d tweeted the director of the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association, to\u00a0supportive<\/a>\u00a0cheers even in the\u00a0legal<\/a>\u00a0community.<\/p>\n

The chaos ensued after discovery of the remains of hundreds of indigenous youths, buried near the residential schools in which they were enrolled under a policy backed by the\u00a0Indian Act<\/i>\u00a0of 1876, amendments to which in 1894 and 1920 made attendance at residential or industrial schools compulsory for those who lacked access to day schools. The last of the former, many of which were operated by the Catholic Church, closed its doors in 1996. Over more than a century, about 140,000 children passed through these schools. Upward of four thousand\u2014perhaps as many as ten thousand\u2014passed away while attending them or expired soon afterward.<\/p>\n

How could this be? Who is responsible? Are the religious organizations who operated the residential schools the real culprits, as many suppose? A careful examination shows that supposition to be flawed. The tragedy, as we shall see, and the crimes it involved\u2014crimes some are falsely characterizing as\u00a0genocide<\/a>\u2014began with\u00a0<\/b>government-mandated violation of parental rights, an error gaining currency again today.<\/p>\n

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