Pakistani Catholic family prays for canonization of martyred son aleteia.org

In 2016, Akash Bashir was killed while preventing a suicide bomber from entering the crowded St. John’s Catholic Church.

Naz Bano has been praying since 2016 for momentum in the movement to seek sainthood for her 20-year-old son, Akash Bashir, who was killed while preventing a suicide bomber from entering the crowded St. John’s Catholic Church. At least 20 people died and 80 were injured in twin suicide blasts targeting services at two churches on March 15, 2015, in Youhanabad, the Christian quarter of Lahore, the capital of Pakistan’s Punjab province. Father Francis Gulzar, the vicar general of the Lahore Archdiocese, announced the beginning of the process to seek sainthood for Akash on the first anniversary of the terrorist attack…

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