Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel of the Christ The Good Shepherd Church in Australia has returned to the church and resumed preaching two weeks after a knife attack during a live stream. The bishop who returned to church with a white eye patch delivered a fiery sermon in support of freedom of speech and freedom of religion. In a video posted by Alex Barnicoat (@mrbarnicoat) on X, the cleric said, “I’m proud to be an Australian, and wherever I go, whenever I travel, across the globe, when I come back here, this is home.”
Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel, who was stabbed in an alleged terror attack on the Christ the Good Shepherd Church in western Sydney, has delivered a fiery sermon on his return to the pulpit, calling out Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in an impassioned defense of freedom of speech and religion.