Livestreamed Church Stabbing Declared a ‘Terrorist Incident’

The police chief of Australia’s most populous state has declared the live-streamed alleged stabbing of a Christian church leader in Western Sydney “a terrorist incident.” The incident occurred just two days after Sydney was rocked by the mass stabbing spree in the city’s east, at Westfield Bondi Junction, that resulted in the death of six individuals and injuries to several others. Orthodox Christian Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel was conducting a live-streamed sermon at the Christ The Good Shepherd Church in Wakeley at about 7 p.m. on April 15 when a young man dressed in black approached him. The attacker, later identified as a 15-year-old boy, pulled out a knife and struck the Assyrian bishop multiple times in the head and the upper body as parishioners screamed and ran to stop him....