An Orthodox Assyrian Bishop was stabbed while giving a sermon that was being broadcast live in the second knife assault to have happened in Australia’s capital in three days.
A second man was stabbed and injured during the attack at Christ the Good Shepherd Church in Sydney on the night of 15 April. The suspected attacker, a 16-year-old boy, was arrested at the scene, and his victims are expected to survive.
Catholic Archbishop Anthony Fisher called the stabbings of Orthodox Assyrian Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel and Father Isaac Royel “shocking", with the attack causing "distress to many in the community".
