Posted on 08/31/2021 6:54:54 PM PDT by marshmallow
VANCOUVER -- A Catholic church in Prince George has been vandalized, and not for the first time, according to the local RCMP detachment.
The latest instance of vandalism at Sacred Heart Cathedral on Patricia Boulevard happened sometime between 11 p.m. on Tuesday and 1 a.m. on Wednesday, according to a news release from Prince George RCMP.
Police said they were notified of the graffiti that had been spray-painted on the church's front doors shortly before 4 a.m. on Wednesday.
Responding officers saw the phrase "Every Child M" painted on the doors, police said. The phrase seems likely to be the start of the slogan "Every Child Matters," which has been widely used in solidarity with Indigenous communities in B.C. and across Canada as First Nations continue to discover unmarked graves on the grounds of former residential schools.
For most of their history, Canada's residential schools were run by Christian churches - including the Catholic Church - on behalf of the federal government.
The schools were known for overcrowding, poor sanitation, unhealthy food and menial labour. Harsh punishment was given to students who spoke their native language or took part in traditional ceremonies.
"Every Child Matters" was also painted outside of Knox United Church in July, and several other acts of vandalism have been committed at Sacred Heart and other churches around the city since June, according to RCMP.
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Have they discovered any graves? Last I heard they haven’t dug any of them up.
There used to be a really cute little church on top of an esker in the Similkameen Valley alongside HWY 3. It was burned to the ground when this residential school controversy reared its head again.
It had nothing to do with any of the alleged problems, but someone decided to burn it.
Scum.
dateline Vancouver, 490 miles south of Prince George. That is like something happens in Missoula MT dateline Seattle.
This is one of those rock and a hard place situations
Had Canadians continued to ignore indian tribes, they would have been accused of neglect and genocide, for turning their backs on the disease, infanticide, kidnapping, drought, seasonal starvation, abuse of females, etc. that occurred among tribes.
Had the Canadians removed children to be educated in how to participate in a civilized world, and less died of childhood disease than if they’d remained in their tribe, they’re blamed for eradicating tribal conflict based cultures.
(then there’s the but-if arguments: that indians who kidnapped europeans treated their captives much worse, with a much shorter lifespan, than children in schools. And after 400 years of petty battles, it was time to end savagery by the last means available - educating children into the realization of a larger world with accepted parameters of behavior, thereby roadblocking them from the roles of tribal conflict ‘warriors’.)
I'll bet you my lunch money that the people who paint that have no problem with abortion.
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