The impulse for revenge is deeply embedded in the human psyche,but Mar Mari Emmanuel immediately forgave his young assailant.
The alleged stabbing of a Sydney bishop by a teenager has reignited Australian alarm at the realities of online harm,reopening a debate about how to protect children.
Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel has uploaded an 11-minute statement to YouTube saying he is not opposed to the video of his stabbing remaining on social media.
Father of three Sam Haddad allegedly made death threats directed at the attacker following the stabbing at the Christ the Good Shepherd Church.
An uneasy calm has now settled on the city after a horror week,but questions remain about why one attacker was labelled a terrorist,and the other wasn’t.
The teenager charged with stabbing a bishop in a church in Sydney’s west has a “long history of behaviour” consistent with mental health issues,a court heard.
“The Lord Jesus never taught us to retaliate,the Lord Jesus never said to us ‘an eye for an eye,a tooth for a tooth,’” the bishop said in an audio message released on Thursday.
The 16-year-old boy who allegedly stabbed Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel at a western Sydney church had not attended school for more than six months,and his father had also seen signs of increasing “disobedience”.
Four men have been arrested for the attack on a suburban Moscow concert hall that has killed more than 130 people.
The release of notorious Muslim cleric Abdul Nacer Benbrika from a Victorian prison on Tuesday prompted the NSW government to look at its own counter-terror regime.
Remanded at Changi Prison for three months under anti-terrorism laws,Kevin Hawkins may be out by Christmas,with prosecutors taking into account his schizophrenia.