This Life: When the innocent pay the price
SAMANTHA ELLEY reflects on recent events in Sydney…
Teenager charged with terrorism over Sydney bishop stabbing
Sydney, Australia Reuters A 16-year-old boy has been charged with a terrorism offence for allegedly stabbing an Assyrian church bishop in Sydney during a church service, Australian police said on Friday, as investigations continued into a riot after the knife attack. Police from the joint counter terrorism team questioned the boy, who is in a […]
Stabbed Sydney Assyrian bishop says recovering quickly, forgives attacker
Sydney, Australia Reuters An Assyrian bishop who was stabbed during a service at his Sydney church said on Thursday he was recovering quickly and that he had forgiven his attacker. Two knife attacks within three days – at a busy shopping centre near Bondi beach that killed six people on Saturday and at the Assyrian […]
Stabbed Sydney bishop is a TikTok star beloved by his community
Sydney, Australia Reuters Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel who was stabbed during a church service live streamed from Sydney on Monday is a social media star with followers around the world, but the bearded clergyman is also a divisive preacher. Dressed in dark robes, clutching a large cross and sporting a bushy grey beard under a […]
Australian police say Assyrian church stabbing was terrorist attack
Updated: 5:30pm (AEDT) Sydney, Australia Reuters Australian police on Tuesday said a knife attack on an Assyrian church bishop and some followers in Sydney was a terrorist act motivated by suspected religious extremism, as the country reeled from a second stabbing incident in three days. At least four people were wounded in the attack, including […]
Several people injured in a stabbing in Sydney church, police say
Sydney, Australia Reuters A number of people were injured in a stabbing at a church in a suburb of Sydney on Monday, police said. Officers arrested a male and he is assisting police with inquiries, a police spokesperson told Reuters, following the attack in Wakeley, about 30 kilometres west of the central business district. It […]