Assyrian Orthodox Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel was stabbed on Monday night in what's being referred to as a Terrorist attack by the NSW Government.
Police were called to Christ the Good Shepherd Church in Wakeley, near Fairfield, at 7pm after reports of a stabbing.The attack happened at Christ The Good Shepherd Church in Wakeley. The NSW Government confirmed the incident was being treated as a terror attack on Tuesday morning.The bishop immigrated from Iraq to Fairfield in Sydney, Australia as a child in the 1970s.
Emmanuel is extremely well-known in his sect of the Assyrian Church, which is considered a conservative branch of Orthodoxy. The bishop has gained a mass following on social media, including 158,000 followers on Instagram and 203k subscribers on YouTube, where the church posts videos and live stream his sermons.
"The world bombards the human race with so much information, quite often we lose our orientation in discerning the lie from the truth."It's understood the religious leader had been receiving threats for two weeks leading up to the attack. The Bishop has gained a mass following on social media, including 158,000 followers on Instagram and 203k subscribers on YouTube, where the church posts videos and live stream his sermons.
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