Church arson is the burning or attempting to burn of religious property.
Three Louisiana black churches were set alight by a suspected arsonist between March 26 and April 4, 2019. The first fire occurred at St. Mary Baptist Church in Port Barre on March 26....Louisiana black church fires.DateMarch 26, 2019ChargesArson on three religious buildings5 more rows
Ten churches have been vandalised in Alberta, Canada, in attacks that police have linked to anger over historic injustices against indigenous people. Investigators in the province said orange and red paint was daubed on the churches in the city of Calgary. The premier of Alberta said the attacks were "appalling".Jul 2, 2021
68 Christian churches in Canada have been vandalized, burned down or desecrated since the announcement last month of the apparent discovery of graves found near a residential school in Kamloops, BC.Aug 23, 2021
A tattoo of a burning church, house, or other structure that places the person's feelings or memories could mean that the person has left his/her past behind and is ending a chapter of his/her life to start anew.Jan 8, 2016
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney declared on June 30 that the Morinville fire "appears to have been a criminal act of hate inspired violence." On July 2, Prime Minister Trudeau called the vandalism and arson attacks targeting Canadian churches "wrong and unacceptable", while later adding that the anger directed towards the ...
It has been a difficult summer for Canada's Christians. Over five days in late June, four Catholic churches and an Anglican church were burned to the ground, the first churches to be set ablaze or vandalized to begin a summer of such desecration. Suspicious fires then broke out across the country.Jul 29, 2021
Though barely mentioned in US media, 48 Christian churches in Canada have been vandalized or burned down in the past two months. The latest occurred Monday, when the St. George Coptic Orthodox Church in Surrey, British Colombia, was destroyed by fire.Jul 20, 2021
The Catholic church at St. Jean Baptiste Parish in Morinville, Alberta, burning on June 30. The blazes destroyed four Roman Catholic churches, and happened after an indigenous community said it found 215 unmarked graves near a former boarding school for indigenous children in British Columbia.Jul 23, 2021
Churches have been burned in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Nova Scotia. Almost all were on indigenous land, destroyed, apparently, in response to deaths of the children who were removed from their families sent to the schools in a policy of forced assimilation.Jul 21, 2021
All fires emit carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and particulate matter, including white (organic) carbon and black carbon.Jan 23, 2020
Religion in CanadaRoman Catholic (38.7%)Protestant (23.5%)Anglican (5.0%)No religious affiliation (23.9%)Muslim (3.2%)Hindu (1.5%)Sikh (1.4%)Buddhist (1.1%)More items...