News in brief

By The Associated Press

Horrified worshipers watch as a bishop is stabbed

SYDNEY | Horrified worshippers watched online and in person as a bishop was stabbed at a church in Sydney before the congregation overpowered the attacker. Police say a 15-year-old boy has been arrested. There are no life-threatening injuries.

Police say a crowd of hundreds seeking revenge gathered outside the Orthodox Assyrian church, hurling bricks and bottles, injuring police officers and preventing police from taking the teen outside. The standoff lasted hours.

Australians are still in shock after a deadly weekend stabbing at a Sydney shopping mall. Police suggest that the weekend attack influenced the community response to the church stabbing.

California women’s prison

to close

LOS ANGELES | The beleaguered federal Bureau of Prisons says it is planning to close a women’s prison in California known as the “rape club” despite attempts to reform the troubled facility after an Associated Press investigation exposed rampant staff-on-inmate sexual abuse.

Bureau of Prisons Director Colette Peters said in a statement to the AP that the agency had “taken unprecedented steps and provided a tremendous amount of resources to address culture, recruitment and retention, aging infrastructure — and most critical — employee misconduct.”

An AP investigation in 2021 found a culture of abuse and cover-ups that had persisted for years at the prison.

—From AP reports