Priest stabbed at altar in Singapore
November 11, 2024
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CWN Editor's Note: A parish priest in Singapore, Father Christopher Lee Kwong Heng, was hospitalized after a mad stabbed him while he was celebrating Mass on November 9.
Police arrested a 37-year-old man with a history of drug-related crime, who was subdued by parishioners after he stabbed Father Lee with a folding knife. The priest suffered cuts around his mouth.
Authorities in Singapore—an ordinarily peaceful city—said that the attack was not ideologically motivated. But Cardinal William Goh remarked: “This incident has not only seriously injured a priest in a place of worship, but has also spread fear in the community.”
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