The Catholic Church in Pakistan has its first official candidate to sainthood, a 20-year-old Akash Bashir, who blocked a suicide bomber from entering a crowded church in 2015.
Pakistani Catholics are overjoyed with the news that Akash Bashir, a lay Catholic and former pupil of Don Bosco Technical Institute of Lahore, has become the first official candidate to sainthood with the 'Servant of God' title.
