First Nations Christians spoke of being left “heartbroken” after their historic Anglican church burned to the ground amid the ongoing wave of arson attacks and statue-smashing sweeping Canada.
Rosealene Daniels captured video footage of 108-year-old St Paul’s Anglican Church being consumed by fire on Gitwangak First Nations land in British Columbia being consumed by fire. As the fire rages, she can be heard saying: “No matter if this is just a building, it’s something that means to everybody in this village [sic],”.
“When my children seen that they were just so heartbroken, because they have so memories in that church,” she said in comments reported by CBC News: The National.
“Aboriginal or not, I don’t think anger is the way to deal with it, and we need to sit down and think about what we could do,” she added.
The broadcaster reported that Liberal prime minister Justin Trudeau’s administration has said federal funding is available for churches to increase security, but that accessing this financing is a slow, complicated process — and the government has no plans to make it any quicker or easier, despite the arson wave. Breitbart.
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