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At least 9 Canadian churches set ablaze amid indigenous anger over residential schools

Fox News

By Peter Hasson

July 4, 2021

At least nine Catholic and Anglican churches across Canada have gone up in flames amid a backlash over the country’s use of church-run residential schools to forcibly assimilate indigenous children from the late 19th century until the 1970s. 

The majority of the church fires occurred on indigenous First Nations land. The recent discoveries of hundreds of unmarked graves at former residential schools within the last month appear to have made churches a target. 

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