More than ten churches in the province of Alberta were vandalised on Canada’s national holiday of Canada Day, or Dominion Day, on Thursday, with most being vandalised with red paint in an apparent protest against the Roman Catholic church’s role in the Canadian residential school system.
According to a report from the BBC, at least one of the churches vandalised was an African Evangelical church that primarily catered to African refugees who had fled their home countries, often due to churches being burned down and anti-Christian persecution.
“These folks came to Canada with the hope that they could practise their faith peacefully,” Alberta conservative Premier Jason Kenney said, adding: “Some of them are traumatised by such attacks.”
Mobs have also ripped down statues of Queen Elizabeth II and her ancestor Queen Victoria in front of the Manitoba Legislature in recent days, and destroyed a statue of British explorer Captain Cook — all with no obvious interference from the authorities.
