2021 Canadian church burnings

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Starting in June 2021, a series of church arsons and suspicious fires damaged or destroyed multiple Christian churches in Canada. Coincident with the fires, vandalism and other destructive events also damaged churches in Canada, primarily in British Columbia. Canadian government officials, church members, and Canadian First Nations leaders have speculated that the fires and other acts of vandalism have been reactions to the reported discovery of unmarked graves at Canadian Indian residential school sites in May 2021. In July 2021, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called for an end to the fires. As of 2024, no conclusive motive for the majority of the arsons has been formally identified by government investigators. A fire at a Coptic Orthodox church was determined to be the result of mental illness and unrelated to the residential schools, resulting in a conviction. One other fire resulted in another conviction. A report by CBC News in 2024 identified 24 arsons at Christian churches...

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