Police are treating a knife attack at a western Sydney church as a terrorist act, leading Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to call for calm in the community.
A 16-year-old boy is in custody on Tuesday after the attack at Christ the Good Shepherd Church in Wakeley overnight, where Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel was stabbed during a service being broadcast on the church's live stream. Albanese said the incident was "disturbing". "There is no place for violence in our community. There's no place for violent extremism. We're a peace-loving nation," he said.
"Those violent pictures are probably what caused the uproar in the community — people saw that, responded and unfortunately we ended up with a public order incident," NSW Acting Assistant Commissioner Andrew Holland told reporters. The suspect was "known to police", Holland said, and not a regular attendee at the church.
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