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CBC News
Sudbury’s Church of the Epiphany bells to ring 1,181 times for missing, murdered aboriginal women
A Sudbury church hopes the sound of its bells will help people take a moment to understand the damage inflicted by Indian residential schools.
Anglican churches across the country, including the Church of the Epiphany in Sudbury, will spend the next three weeks using their bells to honour the 1,181 missing or murdered aboriginal women and girls in Canada.
“Each time you hear the bell, that is a human life that we are marking, that we are not allowing to be forgotten,” said Derek Neal, ministry intern at the Anglican Church or the Epiphany in Sudbury.
“We hope that it will bring attention to this issue. It may prompt people to ask questions. That it will also simply stir in peoples’ hearts a spirit of remembrance for these women.”
The project by the Anglican Church of Canada, which they are calling 22 Days, coincides with the closing ceremonies of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in Ottawa from May 31 to June 3.
The commission was created to document the stories of residential school survivors and to aid in the healing and reconciliation for aboriginal and non-aboriginal people.
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