
Beauty From Ashes: How Losing Their Church Grew Their Catholic Community
Two years after a devastating fire, a historic church in Kansas is rebuilt and rededicated, as the faithful rally to cover the restoration and construction costs remain.
Two years after a devastating fire, a historic church in Kansas is rebuilt and rededicated, as the faithful rally to cover the restoration and construction costs remain.
The Casa Grande Police Department said in a Facebook post on Saturday that the fire at St. Anthony of Padua “was purposely set” and that investigators need “help identifying [the] suspect.”
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Reports indicate 5,000 people were gathered for worship.
The store that suffered the fire was the Sacco Company’s main location and had all of its main inventory.
There has been a spate of Catholic and Christian church burnings in Canada, following the discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves at the sites of former Catholic-run residential schools for Indigenous children.
The discovery of 182 additional undocumented graves outside a former residential school has occurred.
Fires have occured at several other churches in Canada in recent weeks.
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