Pakistan to get its first Catholic saint
Catholics in Pakistan have hailed “Servant of God” status for a man who died a hero in a suicide bombing.
Archbishop Sebastian Shaw of Lahore announced on Monday that the Vatican has accepted Akash Bashir as a Servant of God, paving the way for the first saint from the Islamic country. The 20-year-old volunteer stopped a suicide bomber from entering St. John's Catholic Church in Youhanabad in Lahore in 2015.
The attacker — from a Taliban splinter group — detonated the bomb, killing himself and Bashir outside the church.
Bashir was one of at least 15 people who died in the attack that also left more than 70 wounded. In 2016, Lahore Archdiocese began the process to seek sainthood for Bashir.
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