{"id":598084,"date":"2021-07-20T14:50:17","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T18:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=598084"},"modified":"2021-07-20T14:50:20","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T18:50:20","slug":"video-shows-woman-lighting-orthodox-church-on-fire-days-before-it-burned-to-the-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/video-shows-woman-lighting-orthodox-church-on-fire-days-before-it-burned-to-the-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Shows Woman Lighting Orthodox Church On Fire Days Before It Burned To The Ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvideo-shows-woman-lighting-orthodox-church-on-fire-days-before-it-burned-to-the-ground%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=598084&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Untitled-design-1-2-scaled-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Video footage shows a woman attempting to light a Canadian church on fire days before the church burned to the ground.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Sergeant Elenore Sturko told the Daily Caller News Foundation Tuesday that the suspect in the July 14 video, described as a \u201cCaucasian woman, 5\u20197 tall, with a heavy-set build, and dark hair,\u201d has not yet been identified.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>At least 48 Christian churches in Canada have either been vandalized, desecrated, or burned down since unmarked graves were uncovered near residential schools for indigenous children, according to one estimate by the Canadian publication True North<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Video footage shows a woman attempting to light a Canadian church on fire days before the church burned to the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Surrey Royal Canadian Mounted Police <a href=\"https:\/\/bc-cb.rcmp-grc.gc.ca\/ViewPage.action?siteNodeId=2126&amp;languageId=1&amp;contentId=70364\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said in a press release<\/a> that St. George Coptic Orthodox Church was destroyed in an early Monday morning fire, the cause of which is still under investigation. The fire is being treated as \u201csuspicious,\u201d particularly in light of video surveillance footage <a href=\"https:\/\/bc.ctvnews.ca\/surrey-b-c-church-destroyed-in-fire-mounties-investigating-suspicious-circumstances-1.5514568\">obtained by CTV Vancouver<\/a> showing a woman attempting to light the church on fire last Wednesday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"12.448863636364\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">St George Coptic Orthodox Church in Surrey, British Columbia, has been destroyed by a suspicious fire. The police are currently investigating the incident. Bishop Mina of the Coptic Orthodox Diocese of Mississauga, Vancouver and Western Canada expressed sadness over the incident. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/R8VxgywMBo\">pic.twitter.com\/R8VxgywMBo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SW News (@shalomworldnews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shalomworldnews\/status\/1417372523356852226?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 20, 2021<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Authorities have not established that the incidents are connected. Sergeant Elenore Sturko told the Daily Caller News Foundation Tuesday that the suspect in the July 14 video, described as a \u201cCaucasian woman, 5\u20197 tall, with a heavy-set build, and dark hair,\u201d has not yet been identified.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"8.2281167108753\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Breaking?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Breaking<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SurreyRCMP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SurreyRCMP<\/a> have confirmed there was an attempted arson at St. George Coptic Orthodox last Wednesday. Officials say it\u2019s too early to confirm if today\u2019s fire was also arson or if the two fires are connected. They\u2019re still looking for this suspect. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CTVVancouver?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CTVVancouver<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bFcFHupbOL\">https:\/\/t.co\/bFcFHupbOL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8WJSOGe9kD\">pic.twitter.com\/8WJSOGe9kD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Regan Hasegawa (@rhasegawaCTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rhasegawaCTV\/status\/1417155689105948676?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 19, 2021<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The church, attended by more than 380 families, also served as a daycare to 65 children, CTV reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will not be deterred and we will rebuild,\u201d said Bishop Mina of the Coptic Orthodox Diocese of Mississauga, Vancouver and Western Canada, <a href=\"https:\/\/vancouversun.com\/news\/local-news\/orthodox-church-in-surrey-destroyed-by-early-morning-fire\">the Vancouver Sun reported.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe timing of this fire \u2026 raises many questions about what the authorities did to protect our church, especially considering the attempt on the same church this past Wednesday,\u201d he added, according to the Vancouver Sun. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/02\/canada-catholic-church-burning-indigenous-graves\/\">(RELATED: What To Know About Catholic Churches Vandalized And Burned In Canada)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Royal Mounted Canadian Police told the DCNF Tuesday that though it is investigating the crimes against churches, it does not have statistics on how many churches have been vandalized or burned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe RCMP is tracking\/investigating these crimes where we are the police of jurisdiction. We don\u2019t have a mandate to collect\/track statistics for crimes investigated by other police departments,\u201d RCMP spokesperson Robin Percival told the DCNF.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tnc.news\/2021\/07\/15\/a-map-of-every-church-burnt-or-vandalized-since-the-residential-school-announcements\/\">At least 48 Christian churches in Canada<\/a> have either been vandalized, desecrated, or burned down since unmarked graves were uncovered near residential schools for indigenous children, according to one estimate by the Canadian publication True North.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Post\u2019s Kelly Jane Torrence criticized media outlets <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/07\/12\/us-media-shamefully-justified-a-string-of-canadian-church-burnings\/\">for suggesting<\/a>&nbsp;Canada had hidden \u201cgenocidal death camps.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/30\/st-jean-baptiste-catholic-church-fire-canada-alberta\/\">(RELATED: Fire Blazes Yet Another Canadian Church, Sparking Suspicion Of Possible Anti-Catholic Hate Crime)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Torrence wrote the unmarked graves are \u201cconfirmations\u201d of a sad history Canadians have always known, rather than \u201cdiscoveries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Canada\u2019s Truth and Reconciliation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trc.ca\/assets\/pdf\/Honouring_the_Truth_Reconciling_for_the_Future_July_23_2015.pdf\">report<\/a>, released in 2015, found that thousands of children died from disease in the overcrowded schools and that lack of supervision allowed for abuse and neglect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not a mass gravesite,\u201d Saskatchewan First Nation Chief Cadmus Delorm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straight.com\/news\/cowessess-first-nation-chief-says-751-unmarked-graves-detected-near-former-marieval-indian\">said June 24<\/a>, regarding burials found near a former Indian residential school. \u201cThese are unmarked graves.\u201d<\/p>\n<section><\/section>\n<section><\/section>\n<section><\/section>\n<section class=\"article-content__content-group\" readability=\"59.138696255201\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"11.302670623145\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Christians face persecution abroad, flee here, then see their church burned down, after rep from local civil liberties org says \u201cburn it all down\u201d and PM\u2019s former advisor says church burnings \u201cmay be understandable\u201d. What is happening to Canada.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6owPvoq0If\">https:\/\/t.co\/6owPvoq0If<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/cdnpoli?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#cdnpoli<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Garnett Genuis (@GarnettGenuis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GarnettGenuis\/status\/1417225555573805082?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 19, 2021<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe finds were shocking but not surprising,\u201d wrote Torrence. \u201cAs a schoolgirl in Canada, I learned the ugly history of the country\u2019s forced assimilation policy. Over the course of a century, 150,000 native children were torn from their families \u2014 by force, if necessary \u2014 and sent to get an English- (or French-) language education in government-funded schools run mainly by the Catholic Church.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Torrence wrote that most of the clergy in charge were \u201cwell-meaning,\u201d but that some \u201ctook advantage of their positions to inflict abuse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe idea was to turn poverty-stricken children into productive, even prosperous, members of mainstream Canadian society \u2014 and, from the church\u2019s perspective, to save their souls,\u201d she added. \u201cCanada\u2019s Truth and Reconciliation Commission concluded in 2015 that at least 3,200 students died, later revising that figure to 4,100. The No. 1 cause of death was tuberculosis; influenza hit hard, too. Far from home, children were often buried on site, their graves marked with wooden crosses, most of which deteriorated and disappeared.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video footage shows a woman attempting to light a Canadian church on fire days before the church burned to the ground. 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