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Jack Gramenz, Samantha Lock and Sophia McCaughan

Teen accused of church attack had knife-crime history

A bishop was stabbed by a boy while giving his sermon at Christ The Good Shepherd Church. (Bianca De Marchi/AAP PHOTOS)

A stabbing attack at a western Sydney church that hospitalised two clergymen is being treated as a terrorist act, with the teenager allegedly responsible having a history of knife-related crime.

The 16-year-old boy is under police guard in hospital after what investigators say appeared to be a religiously motivated and planned attack at Christ the Good Shepherd Church at suburban Wakeley.

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