A TikTok-famous Australian bishop was stabbed multiple times and two others were injured during his sermon Monday night, in an attack that came just days after six people were stabbed to death at a nearby mall and sparked massive riots throughout the area.
Footage posted online Monday shows Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel speaking at Wakeley’s Christ The Good Shepherd Church, an Assyrian Orthodox church, when an unidentified man in a black hoodie confronts him.
The bishop appears to try to talk to the man, who then stabs the bishop’s face and neck just after 7 p.m. local time.
Emmanuel then fell to the floor as congregants jumped to his aid.
He was promptly rushed to a local hospital, while the suspect was taken into custody.
The bishop is in stable condition, the church wrote in a statement posted to InstagramIt noted that Father Isaac Rayel was also among the injured, and asked the public for their prayers for the wounded.
