Posted on 08/29/2022 6:19:09 PM PDT by marshmallow
A First Nation chief said people should not take their ‘frustration and anger and disappointment on the house of the Lord.’
FORT CHIPEWYAN, Alberta (LifeSiteNews) – One of the oldest standing Catholic churches in the Canadian province of Alberta was terrifyingly reduced to ashes late last week in what police are deeming a “suspicious” incident.
The destruction of yet another historic Catholic church in Canada happened last Thursday in the remote northern Alberta town of Fort Chipewyan. The fire saw the 113-year-old Catholic church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin reduced to nothing but its burned-out foundation. The church was built by the Oblate missionaries in 1909.
Police had been notified of the fire in the early morning hours on Thursday, and officers along with the Fort Chipewyan Fire Department as well as Alberta Forestry helped put the fire out before it spread to nearby buildings.
While officials have stated that the overall cause of the fire is not yet clear, according to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), the inferno is being treated as “suspicious.”
“We do believe it suspicious,” RCMP spokesperson Corporal Troy Savinkoff told the media.
“But we’re still investigating to see what the potential cause of the fire is,” he added.
RCMP have also said that there were no reported threats directed to the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Church before the incident. There were no injuries reported and the investigation is ongoing.
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Every church needs security cameras with active monitoring. If all Christian churches banded together on the costs to keep it reasonable, maybe they could catch arsonists and keep the damage to a minimum. That’s the world we live in.
That is heartbreaking.
I wonder if the government did it?
But WE are the terrorists and extremists.
A beautiful, over 100 yr old Baptist Chapel and ….and adjacent church were burned down a couple months ago in Chattanooga, Tennessee
My wife is from northern Alberta (not THAT far north, though).
There are VERY few things that old in that part of the country.
It is a great loss, a horrible crime, especially if the Sacrament was present.
Thinking the same thing
“I wonder if the government did it?”
All selfish leaders hate traditional Catholic churches. Roger Mahoney looked the other way when the traditional St. Joseph’s church burned in 1983 and the traditional Sacred Heart church burned in 2005. Yup, Mahoney is a selfish leader.
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