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2. Burned churches stir deep Indigenous ambivalence over faith of forefathers
Wed Sep 7, 2022, 10:31 AM
Sep 2022
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/04/canada-burned-churches-indigenous-catholicism

Burned churches stir deep Indigenous ambivalence over faith of forefathers

After hundreds of unmarked graves were found at Canada’s former Catholic-run residential schools, churches in First Nations territories have been destroyed by suspected arson



As Canada grapples with the discovery of more than 1,000 unmarked graves of Indigenous children at the sites of former residential schools, many have directed their grief and anger at the Catholic church, which ran more than half of the schools across the country.



In recent weeks, nearly two dozen churches have been burned or vandalized across the country – eight of which occurred in First Nations territories.

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(Messed up headline: burning down a church after generations of abuse is not ‘ambivalence’.)

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