The shock stabbing of a Christian leader at a Sydney church overnight that sparked fiery protests and attacks on police has been declared an act of terror by NSW Police.
NSW Police have taken a 16-year old boy into custody after the knife attack on Monday night at Christ the Good Shepherd Church in the western Sydney suburb of Wakeley, where Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel, 53, was stabbed as he conducted a sermon broadcast on the church’s livestream.
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