A charred foundation, chipped bricks and a mountain of black ash.

That’s all that remains of a historic Ukrainian Orthodox church in a rural Alberta community that was destroyed in a fire RCMP say was part of a crime spree.

The series of events took place on Sunday, Sept. 21, northeast of Edmonton, in the hamlet of Bellis.

Annette Flack has been the secretary treasurer of the All Saints Ukrainian Orthodox Parish of Bellis since 1989. She was married in the church and her four children were baptized in it.

“To see our church reduced to a pile of rubble, which means nothing to the people that took it. That means everything to us children growing up, to my mom, to our family.

Flack said losing the nearly 100-year-old building is devastating for her family, in particular her 86-year-old

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