Posted on 05/25/2023 7:18:04 PM PDT by marshmallow
Two men have been arrested in connection with the fire at St. Bernard Catholic Church in the northern Alberta community of Grouard.
GROUARD, Alberta (LifeSiteNews) – A historic 122-year-old Catholic church in western Canada has sustained unrepairable heavy damage after being set ablaze in what police say was an act of arson that has led to two men being arrested and charged in connection to the fire.
On Monday, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) assisted firefighters in putting out a blaze that engulfed most of St. Bernard Catholic Church, located in the northern Alberta community of Grouard. The fire appears to have been set in the afternoon.
The church was built in 1901 and serves the nearby indigenous community as well as residents of Grouard.
RCMP announced Tuesday that two men were charged with arson in connection to the fire, which it said was “suspicious” in nature.
“As these matters are before the courts, no further updates or details surrounding the incident will be provided,” the RCMP said in a media statement.
“No injuries are reported at this time.”
Kenneth Ferguson, 56, of High Prairie, Alberta was charged with breaking and entering to commit theft and arson. Another individual, Gerald Capot, 50, of High Prairie was charged with breaking and entering to commit theft along with arson.
Both men were arrested and held in jail for a judicial hearing and were then remanded to appear before a Judge in High Prairie on May 29.
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If it was “set ablaze”, it was an arsonist, I “suspect.”
Not muslims? Yet?
It will be soon enough.
The ages of the accused makes me wonder why more.
No? They have burned dwn many in France.
You lose. Pay JimRob, please.
Did you even bother to click on the link? If you had, you would’ve known it linked church burnings in several different countries committed by a bunch of different muslims. So, you lose. Pay up.
Besides the fact that it was a church, a secondary loss is that there just aren’t a lot of old buildings in that part of Canada. I got married 100 miles west of that church, and when I went to the pioneer museum in nearby Grande Prairie, most of the “old” buildings and artifacts were from the 1920s and later.
The charges are for theft and arson. Maybe they set the fire to try to cover up the theft?
Your own words, clown. A universal claim.
So I gave you a link to a Google search documenting numerous church burnings by Muslims worldwide. Your response is to revert to the Canadian fire only. What are you a muslim? You're dumb enough to be. *Plonk*
And now the communist government of canada will protect their soldier who was the arsonist.
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