Don’t Use Church Attack to ‘Serve Political Interests’: Bishop

Orthodox Christian Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel has issued a second public message following the stabbing attack, emphasising that he does not want the incident to be exploited for political purposes. He stressed the importance of preserving the videos of the stabbing online, arguing that freedom of speech and freedom of religion are God-given rights. “I do not wish for what has happened to me to be used as a way … to be a threat to the very human freedom and freedom of religion,” he said in a video posted on the Christ The Good Shepherd Church YouTube channel on April 24. The comment came after eSafety commissioner Julie Inman Grant won another 16-day injunction against X, forcing the social media giant to block 65 tweets containing footage of a terror-inspired stabbing of Mr. Emmanuel in a Western Sydney church....