In a series of interconnected violent incidents in Sydney, Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel was stabbed during a church service in Wakeley by a teenager shouting religious slogans. The bishop, recovering in Liverpool Hospital, has publicly forgiven his attacker, emphasizing love and prayer for him. This attack, labeled as a terror act by police, has led to increased security measures and a significant police investigation. Concurrently, the city grapples with the aftermath of a separate but equally horrifying event where Joel Cauchi killed six people at Bondi Junction shopping mall. The mall has since reopened, marked by a day of reflection and increased security, including stab-proof vests for guards. The incidents have sparked widespread discussions on public safety, with calls for legislative changes to address weapon-related violence. The teenager involved in the stabbing has been charged with a terrorism offense, and the bishop recorded his forgiving message from the hospital.
A security guard stabbed during the Bondi Junction knife attack has opened up about the horror moment the chaos unfolded. https://t.co/ASPf1dEnj8
Shortly after Westfield Bondi Junction closed following the first day of trading since last weekend's stabbing tragedy, the NSW Government last night announced a package to support workers and businesses impacted. #9News FULL STORY: https://t.co/B4f14RCVT7 https://t.co/dAFgBDv72v
Some stores remain closed and extra security patrol in stab-proof vests as the full horror of the Bondi Junction shopping centre attack comes to light: https://t.co/21WNNSAIOI https://t.co/CPC0853inq
Shoppers return to ‘eerie, quiet’ Sydney mall after mass stabbings https://t.co/EWg2TumL4v
Second person charged with rioting outside Sydney church after bishop stabbing https://t.co/CS4ez8PhX0
Australian Politicians Now Talking 'Knife Control' After Mall, Church Attacks https://t.co/d1RiwWtYcw
At least nine other people across Australia have been charged with the same offence as the 16-year-old accused of carrying out the Sydney church stabbing. https://t.co/vyV4R87Hnl
This is insane. Police and a mental health nurse went to a man’s house in the UK after he told a local priest that "Christians need to take a stand" after Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel was stabbed by a terrorist. Thankfully he was filming. This is 100% anti-Christian discrimination. https://t.co/tEtLkNVRXV
Following the attack of Orthodox Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel, Sydney Police says information on social media regarding the attack should not be believed: “The source of information should be from police and law enforcement authorities.” Follow: @AFpost https://t.co/AL8hxZgtsK
Second person charged over riot outside Sydney church following terror attack https://t.co/DzmUUS2xgN https://t.co/OtM1shDeDv
Australia: More 3rd world violence coming just days after after six people were killed in a horror stabbing attack at Westfield Bondi Junction last Saturday. 'You would think these idiots would take pause after what happened in Bondi. I'm so disgusted that I had to explain to… https://t.co/O8Bp92Ncxv
Today marks one week on from Sydney's shopping centre stabbing where six people were killed. #9News @SarahStewart_9 LATEST: https://t.co/4y1j8h3PQD https://t.co/w3fGxl673r
Inspector Amy Scott has had to relive how Joel Cauchi’s mass stabbing horror unfolded at Bondi last week, but giving her official version to investigators has brought the hero cop a ‘sense of relief’. FULL STORY: https://t.co/83xncqMd2D https://t.co/NTBxEvuOg0
Watch: Sydney Police Insist ‘We Will be Source of Truth, Not Social Media’ Regarding Bishop Stabbing Attack https://t.co/gpbCJeWxvE
"...Police will be the source of truth and not social media and misinformation." Credit: Reclaim The Net https://t.co/TI5Qs54IA7
Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel Releases Statement After Stabbing https://t.co/IwWKbqe87C
Sydney stabbing: Bondi attack on women devastates Australia https://t.co/8V4MeieC33
"...Police will be the source of truth and not social media and misinformation." https://t.co/zA4Y2NKp6r
Thousands of Muslims gathered in mosques across Sydney for regular prayers on Friday despite concerns about retaliatory attacks after police charged a 16-year-old boy with a terrorism offence over the stabbing of a #Sydney bishop earlier this week. https://t.co/Y4gbajcmw3
VIDEO: British police interrogate man who asked priest if Christians should "take a stand" after Australian bishop was stabbed in the face https://t.co/1CSCEIUGAP https://t.co/1CSCEIUGAP
A Christian is visited by 2 police officers & a mental health nurse because he has a "few concerns" about events in Australia. He said to them, "The church not acting on behalf of Christians you are now turning up with a mental health nurses, assuming I'm some right-wing… https://t.co/NrOq51dNSv
Thought Police: Home Visit For UK Man Who Expressed Anger Online About Sydney Bishop Being Stabbed by Islamist https://t.co/eOk5mgdxbg
WHAT'S GOING ON? British police officers knock on the door of a man for the crime of posting online expressing anger about the Sydney church stabbing. They even brought a mental health professional to speak with the man. https://t.co/dnOjvcwuE9
Sydney police are instructing residents not to share misinformation that's being disseminated across social media. https://t.co/wzDCU8GSun
UK: Police go to Christian's home because he wrote that 'Christians should stand up' - https://t.co/S5HPQuXm1x
Following the Jihadist stabbing of a bishop in Australia 🇦🇺, someone posted "Christians must stand up". He got a visit from police for posting that 👇 Australia has turned into a full-blown fascist state. https://t.co/HOW7L2cpGB
Australian police confirm 'religious motivation' behind teen's stabbing of bishop - which religion? Buddhism??? #terrorism https://t.co/uy2c2I3E93
Police charged a 16-year-old boy with a terrorism offence for the alleged stabbing of Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel at a church on Monday https://t.co/QnF7oWX0T8 https://t.co/LpODlX5ozH
CENSORSHIP: Australian police making it clear residents aren’t to share or read information NOT reported by the police - the police, and only the police, will be the sole source of truth. https://t.co/IpMa41IWFl
"Everything just happened so quickly." A Bondi Junction security guard recovering in hospital has recalled the moment his co-worker, Faraz Tahir, was stabbed. #9News DETAILS: https://t.co/KA0XE8YuTz https://t.co/uZXNuq1IFr
NSW Police Commissioner says, “Police will be the source of truth and not social media and misinformation”. The Australian police are channeling Klaus Schwab. Has he “penetrated” them too? Follow @zeeemedia Website | X | Instagram | Rumble https://t.co/kzEmcPj2pO https://t.co/uqoCKyCH8P
Australian police: "Police will be the source of truth, and not social media and misinformation." When did Australia become such a dystopian hellhole? This is the kind of statement I'd expect from a George Orwell novel, or North Korea. https://t.co/eN2ZuxemCi
For the first time, #9News can bring you a first hand account from a victim of the Bondi Junction attack. Security guard Muhammad Taha was stabbed in the stomach and was there as his colleague died. @DamoNews READ MORE: https://t.co/sze9l41Ldz https://t.co/iyxETrMnY8
Staff and shoppers return to 'somber' Sydney shopping mall 6 days after mass stabbings https://t.co/ZTSKHg1Cdh https://t.co/gNXZ0H34P5
Shoppers and workers returned to a Sydney mall Friday, where six days earlier an assailant stabbed six people to death and wounded more than a dozen others in an attack that police believe targeted women. https://t.co/fIPjfzyXN0
Security guards wear new protective vests as Westfield Bondi Junction reopens https://t.co/suVZztmjxI
Teenager charged with ‘terrorism’ over Australia church stabbing attack https://t.co/igYCE5iVse
Police say they made the decision over the 16-year-old boy, who travelled 90 minutes to allegedly stab Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel, after analysing his electronic devices: https://t.co/qr2zJFvaEL https://t.co/KYRAwvzisq
The lawyer of a 16-year-old boy charged with a terror offence over the stabbing of a bishop at a western Sydney church says the teenager has shown behaviour consistent with mental illness. https://t.co/jbDNBN0z6B
The doors at Westfield Bondi Junction have re-opened for trade this morning. But customers are being asked to be 'kind and gentle', as workers who were caught up in Saturday's tragedy return to work. @hayleyefrancis #9News READ MORE: https://t.co/idQqM0IoI2 https://t.co/BXIi1CRIWF
A Sydney woman has been condemned on social media after posting about the "woke" Westfield Bondi Junction community reflection day, which was organised to remember and honour the six victims killed in the shopping centre massacre. https://t.co/DJdRM6KPi1
Grim new details are revealed about teen's alleged stabbing attack on Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel at Wakeley Christ the Good Shepherd Church - as he faces court on terror charges from his hospital bed https://t.co/Ii14z4XqT9 https://t.co/KujFX7TuBU
The Pakistani security guard who rushed to stop Joel Cauchi’s rampage of terror in Bondi Junction, and was struck by the killer’s knife while trying to protect his friend, is getting a chance to stay in the country he has come to love. Read more: https://t.co/IaCw1wWAIZ https://t.co/ygJX9dWkvQ
A woman whose 17-year-old sister was brutally stabbed to death by a man almost 50 times has posted a heart-wrenching video pleading for more to be done to prevent violent knife crime in Australia in the wake of the Bondi Junction tragedy. https://t.co/Pd08TPXX71
Teen charged with Wakeley terrorism attack travelled 90 minutes to church: police https://t.co/xa4BjTZUwi
A father - whose teen son was fatally stabbed in a brawl more than four years ago - has urged NSW Premier Chris Minns to consider legislating a law he and his wife created to reduce the number of weapons on the streets, following the Westfield and Wakeley attacks.…
NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb and AFP Commissioner Reece Kershaw are addressing the media after a teenager was charged with a terrorism offence following an alleged stabbing at a church in Sydney's west. Join https://t.co/sH6vLECPDj to watch live from 8am.…
Australia news live: teenager to appear at bedside court hearing on terrorism charge over Sydney church stabbing https://t.co/YWK2pORfTO
The mood outside Westfield Bondi Junction was sombre but hopeful as crowds gathered to pay their respects on Thursday when the shopping centre officially reopened for a “day of reflection”. Read more: https://t.co/Zwx7MRDF7F https://t.co/hMKltVPDHR
NEW: Australia mulls citizenship for Pakistani guard in Sydney mall attack https://t.co/F34A2RbeyB
"I forgive whoever has done this act, and I say to him: you are my son, I love you, and I will always pray for you," the bishop said. Powerful statement from Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel. https://t.co/bFULuguqN1 https://t.co/N4RQkeHF2k
TikTok-famous bishop stabbed in Australia says he’s already forgiven suspected teen terrorist https://t.co/FmjWQd9cSq https://t.co/E7IOY0G4VW
🚨#BREAKING: The 16-yr-old who ‘allegedly’ stabbed Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel during a church sermon in Sydney's west this week has been charged with terrorism offence and denied bail https://t.co/YVNhw4fRrq
The city's Bondi Westfield shopping center opened its doors once again for the first time since a man with a knife killed six people on April 13 before police shot him https://t.co/fGDcMTTu9w https://t.co/sB2UizBfEr
The Sydney shopping mall that was the scene of deadly stabbings days ago has reopened to the public. The New South Wales premier called the reopening a "first step in healing." https://t.co/UJc5U7wwRc
Premier Chris Minns has met with more than a dozen religious leaders in Sydney to call for peace and unity as citizens prepare to return to places of worship after a church stabbing on Monday. https://t.co/okyyGDRMai
EXCLUSIVE: Images showing the face of the teenager arrested over the stabbing of an Assyrian bishop at a church in Sydney’s west remain on social media in contravention of NSW laws https://t.co/ogK8ErDtC9
Sydney Mall Reopens Post Mass Stabbing, Pak Guard Who Intervened May Get Australian Citizenship Click here to read more #Sydney #SydneyMallAttack #SydneyChurchAttack https://t.co/y4X6fqjJ3v
Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel has broken his silence. He says he forgives his attacker and is praying for him. Listen to the Bishop's message to his attacker HERE. 🎧https://t.co/OjSpy5jLGw🎧 https://t.co/rGw3TD7hK2
It has been five days since Joel Cauchi killed six people, injured a dozen more and left countless more lives changed forever at the once-busy shopping centre. #9News https://t.co/AuPiepTHi9
Stabbed Australian bishop breaks silence and says he is 'doing well' and 'forgives' alleged attacker https://t.co/65SXWRAQiE
Sydney shopping mall reopens after stabbings. Police make first arrest in riot after church attack https://t.co/xemdwJF4Tb https://t.co/8TKpcn2bR1
'You are my son': stabbed Bishop forgives attacker https://t.co/iFILaYTEWD
🚨 The Islamic Council of NSW have CONDEMNED POLICE for declaring the stabbing of Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel by a young Jihadi shouting Allahu Akbar a terror attack—even though the terrorist explained he did it because the priest disrespected Islam. You can't make this stuff up. https://t.co/Swh03fBHwl
An Assyrian church bishop who was stabbed during a service at his church said he was recovering quickly, and that he had forgiven his attacker as police ramped up investigation into the riots triggered after the bishop's stabbing https://t.co/QehLLK3bNI
The bishop recorded the message from Liverpool Hospital, where he is still recovering after allegedly being stabbed in a terror attack at Christ the Good Shepherd Church in Wakeley on Monday night. #9News READ MORE: https://t.co/OykSqXY7Fa https://t.co/tEtfuLqHBm