Hey, Did Anyone Find Out Who Burned Those Churches?

I'm sure that all political parties are deeply immersed in this spate of lawlessness:

Despite the troubled history of residential schools, many First Nations people are deeply faithful. Their Christian faith is an intimate part of their day to day life. It is in fact a vital part of their healing process.

The divisive conversation, which so often excludes or overrides First Nation voices, has also contributed to the arson and vandalism of 53 churches to date across Canada. Many of the places of worship affected are located on First Nations territories — it is the First Nations people of faith who are suffering. The rhetoric of privileged politicians and pundits is once again trampling on the way of life for First Nations people.

 

(Sidebar: as of this writing, there have been fifty-seven burned and/or vandalised churches in Canada.)

 

Why, it's like we're China:

China’s Christians, at 100 million strong and constituting that country’s largest religious minority, are facing a new government policy of severe religious repression and persecution. The modicum of toleration that, for two generations, allowed the development of a robust, evangelizing Chinese church no longer exists. In the past three years, the government has launched a systematic campaign to cut China’s Christian demographic drastically and control whatever survives within a little “birdcage,” as Hong Kong’s Cardinal Joseph Zen describes the push by the Chinese Communist Party for ideological conformity.

Tactics, aimed principally at church leadership but including ordinary Christians, range from prison to social marginalization, closures of churches, censorship of Christian teaching, secret detention in secret “black” jails for brainwashing and Maoist “struggle sessions,” torture, and likely execution by means of organ excision.