(STRAITS TIMES) – A Sydney bishop brutally stabbed during a live-streamed sermon said on April 18 that he is recovering and forgives his attacker, declaring: “You are my son.”
Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel was slashed in the head and chest by a 16-year-old suspect on April 15, sparking a riot by followers of the Assyrian Christian church in western Sydney. Australian police have deemed the attack a terrorist act motivated by suspected religious extremism.
“I am doing fine, recovering very quickly,” said the bishop of Christ the Good Shepherd Church in Wakeley. The area is a hub for Sydney’s small Christian Assyrian community, many of whom fled persecution and war in Iraq and Syria.
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