‘I prefer to die than let evil in’: Akash Bashir, Pakistan’s Servant of God

A Pakistani man stopped a parish bomber. Could he eventually be canonized?

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On a Sunday in March, ten years ago, a suicide bomber headed into a Catholic church in Lahore, Pakistan. He was intent on blowing up himself and those inside.

But the bomber’s path was blocked by 20-year old Akash Bashir, who told him “If I have to die, I'll die, but I won’t let you in.”…