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Akash Bashir

22 Ιουνίου 1994 — 15 Μαρτίου 2015

Risalpur · Lahore

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Akash Bashir was a Pakistani layman and a former student of the Don Bosco Technical Institute in Lahore, Pakistan. In December 2014, he joined the security team in charge of protecting the Church of Saint John in Lahore, in the predominantly Christian neighborhood of Youhanabad. On Sunday, 15 March 2015, he blocked a suicide bomber who was about to enter the church. The bomber detonated his bomb outside the church, killing both of them. In January 2022, the cause for his beatification was opened and he was named a Servant of God by Pope Francis.

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