A new stabbing incident, this time during a live broadcast, occurred in a Sydney area, just 24 hours after the “attack” at the shopping center, which left six citizens dead.
The attack targeted a priest who was preaching at The Good Shepherd Church in the Wakeley area, west of Sydney, on Monday afternoon (local time), when suddenly an unknown person with a knife approached him at the Holy Altar and stabbed him several times.
Immediately, the faithful who were present rushed to stop him, while there are reports of at least four injured. The perpetrator – whose motives are unknown – has been arrested, and according to the initial information from the police, the priest’s injuries are not life-threatening.
An attack on a priest has just been captured on a live stream at the Christ the Good Shepherd Church in the Sydney suburb of Wakeley. pic.twitter.com/s17sHHHVw7
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) April 15, 2024
🚨🇦🇺#BREAKING: Footage of Mari Mari Emmanuel being escorted out of the church by paramedics. https://t.co/qHkOTK1Ypf pic.twitter.com/ha11IAvt8r
— Censored Men (@CensoredMen) April 15, 2024
The priest who was stabbed on Monday afternoon in western Sydney is named Mari Emmanuel and has a large following on social media, with over 17,000 followers on Facebook.
He gained fame during the pandemic when he described the lockdown in Sydney as “mass slavery” and supported the notion that vaccines are futile because “normal” life would boost immunity.
Recently, he traveled to the Gaza Strip to show solidarity with the Palestinians.
🚨#BREAKING: Assyrian Orthodox Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel was stabbed in Sydney’s west during mass!
Here is this heroic man of god talking about his recent trip #Gaza and meeting a little Palestinian girl.
Miraculously he has survived! May god condemn who ever attacked him. pic.twitter.com/VxmF03ilai
— Syrian Girl 🇸🇾 (@Partisangirl) April 15, 2024
