LAHORE, Pakistan — When a suicide bomber attempted to enter a Catholic church in Pakistan in 2015, a 20-year-old volunteer security guard blocked him. “I will die but I will not let you go in,” he ...

‘I cannot forget his sacrifice,’ said Father Francis Gulzar, who was saying Mass when Akash Bashir gave up his life to prevent a suicide bomber from entering the church. Clockwise from Left: Funeral ...

People from the Christian community attend a protest in Lahore, Pakistan, in this March 16, 2015, file photo. The protest was to condemn suicide bombings outside two churches in Lahore the previous ...

Lahore archdiocese in Pakistan has officially concluded the inquiry into the martyrdom of Akash Bashir, the nation’s first candidate for sainthood, nine years after he was killed while preventing a ...

Karachi (Agenzia Fides) - "We ask the government of Pakistan to award our Christian martyr Akash Bashir one of the highest civil awards for his courage. It has been almost 7 years since Akash Bashir ...

The eerie silence around the nondescript Catholic cemetery in Youhanabad is broken occasionally when some people come to pray and to pay respects to their departed ones. They put flowers on the graves ...

(UCA News) — Bashir Emmanuel will forever remember the last meeting he had with his son Akash Bashir at the busy bus stop near his home in Youhanabad. Emmanuel was leaving that Saturday night for ...

CWN Editor's Note: Akash Bashir, 20, “heroically gave his life in 2015 to stop a suicide bomber from entering a church,” AsiaNews reported. “He is the first Pakistani lay person to be officially ...

When a suicide bomber attempted to enter a Catholic church in Pakistan in 2015, a 20-year-old volunteer security guard blocked him. “I will die but I will not let you go in,” he reportedly told the ...