Canadian churches join call for Manitoba landfill search
Global News
Leaders from four denominations said they will be meeting with family members and Indigenous leaders in Winnipeg on Sept. 5 to show their support.
Leaders of four national churches are joining the growing chorus of voices calling on the Manitoba government to search the Prairie Green Landfill for the remains of three Indigenous women.
In a statement Monday afternoon, leaders from the United Church of Canada, Presbyterian Church in Canada, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada and Anglican Church of Canada said they will be meeting with family members and Indigenous leaders on Sept. 5 to show their support.
Rev. Susan Johnson, national bishop with the Evangelical Lutheran Church, says missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls is an issue all of the churches feel strongly about.
“The leaders of the four churches all have women leaders at this time,” Johnson told 680 CJOB, “so this issue is particularly important to us as women church leaders.
“Our first step is to talk to the people involved. We want to be there to give support and to honour the women who are assumed to be murdered and buried in the landfill.
“Our task after that will include … advocacy work.”
Johnson said the first step for the group — which also includes Revs. Carmen Lansdowne, Mary Fontaine, Chris Harper and Murray Still — is to meet with family members of Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran, whose remains are believed to be in the Prairie Green Landfill, at Camp Morgan outside Brady Road Landfill next week.