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Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attends the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, January 25, 2018. | (Photo: Reuters/Denis Balibouse) Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has denounced the arson attacks on Catholic churches in the country following the discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves at former residential schools. Recent discoveries of approximately 1,100 unmarked graves at three residential schools for indigenous people overseen by Catholic churches are thought to be the reason for an uptick in the destruction of church buildings. Trudeau, a memb...

Two more Catholic churches on Indigenous land in B.C.’s Interior burned to the ground early Saturday morning. The latest were located on reserves in the Similkameen Valley, and come just days after two Catholic churches burned down on Indigenous land in the southern Okanagan. Chief Keith Crow, of the Lower Similkameen Indian Band, said St. Ann’s Church on the Chuchuwayha reserve in Hedley and the Lower Similkameen Indian Band church, the Chopaka Church, were destroyed by fire at about 4 a.m. He said the fires were suspicious and “possibly” linked to the other two in the Okanagan.

Une église de la communauté de Hedley et une autre de la communauté de Chopaka, au sud de la Colombie-Britannique, ont été la proie des flammes dans la nuit de vendredi à samedi, un événement survenu quelques jours après que deux autres églises ont été brûlées vers Okanagan. Ces deux incendies, qui sont survenus entre 3 h et 4 h samedi matin, ont été confirmés par le chef de bande de la communauté de Lower Similkameen, Keith Crow, selon Global News. «J’ai reçu un appel tôt ce matin d’un de nos membres me disant que notre...

Two more Catholic churches on Indigenous land in B.C.’s Interior burned to the ground early Saturday morning. The latest were located on reserves in the Similkameen Valley, and come just days after two Catholic churches burned down on Indigenous land in the southern Okanagan. Chief Keith Crow, of the Lower Similkameen Indian Band, said St. Ann’s Church on the Chuchuwayha reserve in Hedley and the Lower Similkameen Indian Band church, the Chopaka Church, were destroyed by fire at about 4 a.m. He said the fires were suspicious and “possibly” linked to the other two in the Okanagan.

  VANCOUVER -- Two more Catholic churches on First Nations reserve land in B.C. have burned to the ground. The churches, both in the Similkameen region, went up in flames early Saturday morning and both were destroyed completely, say Penticton RCMP. RCMP say that just before 4 a.m. they received a call about a fire at St. Ann's Church, which is located just east of Hedley on Upper Similkameen Indian Band land. Then at 4:45 a.m. they got a call about a fire at Chopaka Church on Lower Similkameen Indian Band land, just east of Keremeos. The fires come on the heels of similar incidents on ...