Christians Are Under Attack in Australia, By George Christensen

       Nation First looks into the war on Christianity in Australia... and how no one in power actually cares.

They stabbed a bishop while he was preaching. They torched churches. They smashed Catholic statues. They sacked Christian workers for quoting Scripture. They banned Christian events from public venues. They spat on the memory of our dead at the gates of our cathedrals. And still the political class yawns and the media elite is deafeningly silent.

And yet, if it were Muslims, Jews, Hindus or any other minority faith, we'd never hear the end of it.

•A bishop was stabbed during a church service, and churches have been vandalised, yet political and media silence remains deafening.

•Christian professionals have been fired or punished for expressing Biblical beliefs, with no defence from authorities.

•Peaceful Christian events, forums, and street preachers have been banned or shut down under vague policies or bylaws.

•While other faiths receive public protection, funding, and dedicated envoys, Christianity is uniquely left unprotected and vilified.

•It is time for Christians to establish their own independent watchdog to track, expose, and respond to anti-Christian discrimination.

On April 16, 2024, Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel was knifed in the face during a livestreamed church service in Sydney. The attacker struck repeatedly. The bishop permanently lost vision in one eye. Fifty-one police officers were injured in the chaos that followed. The incident was declared a terrorist attack. Yet after a few politically correct remarks about community healing, the government moved on.

On September 14, 2023, a Christian church in Warragul, Victoria, was firebombed and left in ruins. Before igniting the flames, the attacker sprayed a message across the building saying "F*** your God." He mocked Christians online afterward and was later jailed. Most of the media barely covered it.

In 2022, both a Catholic and an Anglican church in Albury were targeted in one coordinated night of destruction. Statues were decapitated, crosses were broken, sacred space was defiled. Nobody marched. Nobody mourned. Nobody in public office said a word.

When Cardinal George Pell was laid to rest on February 2, 2023, left-wing protesters surrounded St Mary's Cathedral in Sydney holding signs that read "Pell burn in hell." Whatever you might think of the late Cardinal Pell is irrelevant to the point. Imagine such a protest outside a mosque. Imagine it outside a synagogue. Picture the police response. But when it is Christians being targeted, hate is rebranded as protest.

Christianity is also being hunted in the public square.

In May and June 2025, a 72-year-old street preacher in Sydney was ordered to stop holding a "Jesus is the way" sign near the Opera House. He wasn't threatening anyone. He wasn't shouting. He was peacefully witnessing to the faith that built this country. Police said the sign was a breach of by-laws.

In 2023, a Catholic police sergeant in Victoria was dismissed from his position after he objected to the force's involvement in LGBTQ pride events. His objection was religious. He simply posted comments expressing traditional Catholic belief. He was fired.

A Christian doctor has been suspended since 2019 and remains suspended over social-media posts defending Biblical morality. He has never harmed a patient. He is a skilled physician. But he dared to speak like a Christian online. That was enough to strip him of his profession.

In July 2021, the Australian Christian Lobby was banned from booking government-run venues in Western Australia. The official reason was that ACL's views on marriage and gender were incompatible with government policy. Think about that. A government declared the Christian view of marriage incompatible with democracy.

In 2023, a university-affiliated college in Tasmania cancelled a Catholic forum that questioned transgender ideology. It was not a hate rally. It was an academic symposium. But the existence of Christian dissent was considered dangerous.

In 2022, seven Manly Sea Eagles players were stood down for refusing to wear a Pride jersey. Some were devout Christians. They simply asked not to wear a uniform promoting something they could not affirm. The club chose to remove them from the team.

In 2025, the Tasmanian Anti-Discrimination Commission launched an investigation into the Australian Christian Lobby for quoting the Green Party's policies on gender issues. Christian speech is being criminalised.

And yet, through all of this, our governments have done absolutely nothing to stop it. Especially the Albanese Labor Government. On the contrary, they have declared war on silence, on tradition, and on truth.

They appointed a Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism in July 2024. That envoy released a 49-point national plan in July 2025 to rewrite laws, punish institutions, and reform education. They appointed a Special Envoy to Combat Islamophobia in September 2024. That envoy is designing a nationwide framework, supported by state and federal funding. The New South Wales government also recently launched a one-million-dollar Islamophobia response plan, complete with a Report Islamophobia support line where people can dob in their neighbours for a comment, a look, or a meme.

But when Christians are stabbed, fired, cancelled, and mocked, and their churches are vandalised and burnt down, nothing is said. No envoy. No plan. No hotline. No funding. No public apology. No media outrage.

Christianity is the only faith in Australia that the political elite will not defend. The only faith whose believers are fair game for arson, ridicule, censorship, and termination. The only faith whose institutions can be smeared with impunity. The only faith denied even the right to protest this persecution without being labelled bigots.

This is not neglect. It is targeted discrimination. It is a deliberate refusal to protect the very faith upon which this nation was built. Christianity built our hospitals, our schools, our courts, our values. It has shaped our laws, our language, our land. And now the elites want to drive it into the shadows.

We will not let them.

It is time to appoint a Special Envoy to Combat Hatred Against Christians. Not as a gesture, but as a warning. The hatred ends here. The silence ends here. The mockery ends here.

That envoy must document every attack, every sacking, every ban, every legal threat. That envoy must launch a national hotline for victims of anti-Christian discrimination. That envoy must expose the governments, universities, venues, and regulators that systematically punish Christians for their beliefs. That envoy must defend the street preachers, the priests, the parents, the teachers, the players, and the professionals who refuse to bow before the new false gods of woke ideology.

If Jews and Muslims can have publicly funded protection, so must we. If other faiths get hotline support, we demand it too. If other groups receive tailored envoys and national action plans, Christians will no longer accept second-class status.

The war on Christianity is real. It is escalating. It is being waged with government approval and media silence.

We will not be silent. We will not be sidelined. We will not be scared. We will not retreat.

We are Christians. And we are not going anywhere.

If governments won't do it, then perhaps Christians and churches should.

Perhaps it is time to create our own envoy. Not a bureaucrat, but a watchdog. A movement. A shield. A voice. A record.

An independent body to track and expose every act of anti-Christian hatred in this country. Every desecrated altar. Every preacher silenced. Every worker punished. Every event banned. Every slur flung. Every double standard enforced.

Aid to the Church in Need has already warned that no official body in Australia tracks anti-Christian incidents. Not the government. Not the Human Rights Commission. Not the media. No one. They have sounded the alarm. We should answer it.

If they will not name the persecution, we will. If they will not stop it, we must. Because if we don't stand now, we may not be allowed to stand later.

And by the way, I'm not just throwing out an idea. I'm going to do something about it myself. Stay tuned.

After all, you and I… we are the watchmen. And, as for me, I am done waiting.

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