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Samantha Lock and Sophia McCaughan

Stabbed church leader critical of Islam, other faiths

The much-loved Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel could have been targeted due to his views on Islam. (HANDOUT/Christ of Good Shepherd Church)

A prominent religious leader stabbed while delivering a sermon at a Sydney Assyrian church could have been targeted because of his critical and outspoken views on Islam.

Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel sustained lacerations to his head after a knife-wielding attacker repeatedly lunged at him during a live-streamed sermon at Christ the Good Shepherd Church in Wakeley on Monday night.

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