March 20, 2024 / 12:59 PM
The Catholic Church in Pakistan, a country in which Christians suffer constant attacks and discrimination, celebrated with joy the progress in the process of what could be its first blessed and future saint. This is the young Salesian Akash Bashir, who He died preventing a terrorist with explosives from killing hundreds of worshipers at a Mass.
According to the Salesian News Agency (ANS), on March 15, the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Lahore (Pakistan) was the scene of the official closure of the diocesan investigation into the Servant of God Akash Bashir, after two years. Now all the information will go to the Vatican for evaluation.
The event was presided over by the Archbishop of Lahore, Bishop Sebastian Francis Shaw, who then celebrated a Mass with the Apostolic Nuncio in Pakistan, Bishop Germano Penemote, bishops, priests of all parishes, representatives of all religious congregations in the country , Akash Bashir’s family and faithful in general.