A woman has been sentenced to four years in prison for burning down a Coptic Orthodox church in British Columbia last year following the discovery of unmarked graves at residential schools. Kathleen Panek, 35, pleaded guilty to two counts of arson in relation to the burning of the St. George Coptic Orthodox Church in Surrey’s Whalley neighbourhood on July 19, 2021, reported Global News. Panek was also accused of setting fire to cardboard boxes outside of a unit in Whalley’s Sunshine Housing Co-op on March 15, 2021. Her sentence meets the prosecutors’ request of two years for each count, to be served consecutively, deducting the time she has already served in custody since her arrest on Aug. 26, 2021. The Coptic church was one case among a series of burning or vandalizing churches in the months following the discovery of what was believed to be the remains of 215 children in unmarked graves at a former …