Police are searching for two black males after a 72-year-old female churchgoer in Nebraska was robbed, then punched in the face during a Sunday service.

Shocking surveillance video shows two black teens entering the St. Cecilia's Cathedral in Omaha before approaching the unsuspecting parishioner.

[ad]The first male appears to snatch the woman's purse before the second strikes her down with a single punch to the temple, knocking the woman over and gashing her head on a nearby table.

Both males can then be seen fleeing the scene as the woman lay helpless and stunned.