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Australian police have declared Monday’s stabbing at a Sydney church a religiously motivated “terrorist act”.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n A 16-year-old boy was arrested after a bishop, a priest and churchgoers were attacked during mass at the Assyrian Christ The Good Shepherd Church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At least four people suffered “non-life-threatening” injuries, police say. The attacker was also hurt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The incident was captured on a church livestream and quickly triggered unrest in the suburb of Wakeley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hundreds of people gathered outside the Assyrian Orthodox Church – about 35km south-west of the city centre – and clashed with police. Two officers were injured, one with a broken jaw after he was hit with a brick and fence paling. Twenty police vehicles were also damaged, with 10 left unusable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The violence similarly left paramedics retreating for cover in the church, where they were “holed up” for more than three hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has convened an emergency meeting of national security agencies, calling the attack “disturbing”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “We’re a peace-loving nation… There’s no place for violent extremism.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Authorities are concerned about the role of social media, he added, “including the publication of videos that can be very harmful, particularly for younger people”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BBC: Australian police have declared Monday’s stabbing at a Sydney church a religiously motivated “terrorist act”. A 16-year-old boy was arrested after a bishop, a priest and churchgoers were attacked during mass at the Assyrian Christ The Good Shepherd Church. At least four people suffered “non-life-threatening” injuries, police say. The attacker was also hurt. The incident was captured on a church livestream and quickly triggered unrest in the suburb of Wakeley. Hundreds of people gathered outside the Assyrian Orthodox Church – about 35km south-west of the city centre – and clashed with police. Two officers were injured, one with a… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38713,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38712,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38710\/revisions\/38712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}