News about Bishop, church, and Sydney

Footage posted online showed the attacker criticising Emmanuel's comments about Islam while pinned to the ground by the congregation. Police said on Tuesday it was a terrorist attack motivated by suspected religious extremism.

“I am doing fine, recovering very quickly,” said the bishop of Christ the Good Shepherd Church in Wakeley. The area is a hub for Sydney's small Christian Assyrian community, many of whom fled persecution and war in Iraq and Syria.

He was ordained as a priest in 2009 and became the bishop of Christ the Good Sheperd Chruch in Wakeley, in 2011. Emmanuel is extremely well-known in his sect of the Assyrian Church, which is considered a conservative branch of Orthodoxy.