Statue outside Edmonton Polish catholic church vandalized with red paint

A statue of a former pope was painted with red handprints Saturday night outside an Edmonton church. As Bailey Nitti reports, several churches throughout Canada have been vandalized since the discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves.

[burningblue]

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
― George Orwell,  1984

[raiserofchickens]

5 churches have been burned down but that isn't considered hate crimes.

[MrRMT]

Will Jagmeet Singh cry about this and say “this is the country we live in” ?

[toypianokeys]

Is this not a hate crime!!!??? What about the atrocities other religions have and still are commiting. Would we be so quiet if someone did this to a mosque?

[ryandury]

If you wish to vandalize something you may not want to leave your hand prints all over the crime scene :|

[onemotherpucker]

Notice that right after the government went after the church, this story broke about the native graves?
What a coincidence, eh?

[rudybegonia]

no more free cabbage rolls for those vandals

[Coroy]

Cant believe anything this news agency says.

[nastyvinylcunter]

Waiting for Trudeau to condemn this as Catholicophobia...

[LiplessEagle]

There’s the handprints. Track down the criminals

[nomannos]

I forgive all from my past. Live for today and love your fellow man. We are all one.

[tiick_Husband]

This is the equivalent of punching an Asian Man in the face for The Covid Pandemic 😂😂😂

[MarcoPolo-hnor]

Who knows what else Catholic Church did 😱

[mr.gorgeous]

Disease killed most of those poor kids, not homicidal nuns. Kids were buried individually, not put in ‘mass graves’

[johnathonlutz]

“Frustrations are boiling over”, so that’s an excuse to commit crime? Wow what a joke. Whoever did this needs to be arrested.

[damianp]

Pope John Paul visited reservations and had solidarity with aboriginal people ... wrong move guys ...

[DS-mekk]

I'm surprised they haven't used pink...like the color of their hair

[zbigniewkozlowski]

Believe or not Time ago Canada had one of the best reputations as not belligerent country, peaceful country tolerant country , Whot about now ? Where are we ??? REGARDS Ziggy Acme

[jn]

shame on citynews for calling this vandalism.

[bluesky]

I know that Native people have the right to be angry and upset . I can't blame them but this is still is a hate crime doing stuff like this. This does not make things right. To do that we all need to work together to make things right. Starting with Mr Blackface Trudeau paying to survivors the compensation the court told him to pay.