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In more recent years, there has been a growing recognition of the systemic nature of the atrocities perpetrated against Indigenous peoples in Canada. [162] Indigenous leaders and scholars such as Phil Fontaine , Alice MacLachlan and David Bruce MacDonald have long argued that the Canadian government should "officially" recognize the totality of ...
On the night of 2 to 3 October, 23 members in Cheiry in Switzerland, many of those considered "Traitors" to the movement were killed via gunshot by Egger and Jouret. The members in Salvan, numbered 25, died from poison injections. The bodies in Switzerland were found on 5 October. In all, 53 people died, including several children.
Freedom of religion in Canada is a constitutionally protected right, allowing believers the freedom to assemble and worship without limitation or interference. [2]According to the 2021 census, Christianity is the largest religion in Canada, with 53.3% of the population (more than half of these are Roman Catholic); one third of Canadians stated that they were irreligious or had no religion.
1623, Sir George Calvert, Charter of Avalon 1763, the Treaty of Paris; 1851: The Freedom of Worship Act, R.S.Q. c. L-2; 1867: The British North America Act, 1867.; 1894–1947: attendance mandatory at Indian residential school system (a network of boarding schools) for Indigenous peoples to Christianize the aboriginal people of Canada thereby replacing their indigenous religious beliefs ...
This is a list of events in Canada and its predecessors that are commonly characterized as massacres. Massacre is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as "the indiscriminate and brutal slaughter of people or (less commonly) animals; carnage, butchery, slaughter in numbers"; it also states that the term is used "in the names of certain massacres of history".
In 1946, a provincial bill had been enacted ensuring religious freedom through the Saskatchewan Bill of Rights. [27] On June 9, 1947, Jehovah's Witnesses presented a petition to Canada's parliament for the enactment of a similar bill, followed by a similar petition in 1949. [28] John Diefenbaker became an advocate of the bill. [29]
Secularization has been growing since the 1960s. [205] [206] In 2011, 23.9% declared no religious affiliation, compared to 16.5% in 2001. [207] In recent years there have been substantial rises in non-Christian religions in Canada. From the 1991 to 2011, Islam grew by 316%, Hinduism 217%, Sikhism 209%, and Buddhism 124%. The growth of non ...
Violence committed by secular governments and people, including the anti-religious, have been documented including violence or persecutions focused on religious believers and those who believe in the supernatural in multiple regions [51] [52] notably such as in the Soviet Union, [53] [54] [55] Cambodia, [56] China, [57] and Mexico. [58]