{"id":18390,"date":"2022-02-03T12:05:13","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T11:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omnesmag.com\/?p=18390"},"modified":"2022-05-11T09:21:49","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T08:21:49","slug":"first-holy-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omnesmag.com\/en\/actualidad\/primer-santo-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistani Catholics could have their first saint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omnesmag.com\/en\/articles\/the-catholics-of-pakistan-could-soon-count-on-their-first-saint\/\">Article in English<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Catholic Church in Pakistan could have the first Pakistani saint in its history. The presence of Christianity in Pakistan, a Muslim confessional state, is estimated at less than 2%. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Christian denominations are frequent targets of attacks in this country, which is plagued by the scourge of terrorism at the hands of Islamic groups of various factions. To be a Christian is, in fact, to be considered a \"second-class citizen\" in Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Akash Bashir prevented, in 2015, a suicide bomber from entering a St. John's Church in Youhanabad, belonging to the Diocese of Lahore. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Akash Bashir, born on June 22, 1994 in Risalpur, in the Pakistani province of Nowshera Khyber Pakhtun Khwa. Bashir was a student at the Don Bosco Technical Institute in Lahore and was a member of the youth of the parish community of St. John's Church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On March 15, 2015, while keeping watch at the church gate, when he observed a man trying to enter the temple with an explosive belt on his body. Akash embraced the man holding him at the entrance gate, derailing the terrorist's plan to make a massacre inside the church. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The attacker - a member of Tehreek-e-Taliban Jamaatul Ahraar, a Taliban splinter group - blew himself up and young Akash Bashir died with him. His last words from Akash were, \"I will die, but I will not let you in.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Along with him, 15 other people were killed and more than 70 injured. At the same time, terrorists attacked a nearby Protestant church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\"Bashir offered his life as a sacrifice to save the life of the community,\" Francis Gulzar, vicar general of the archdiocese of Lahore, said in a statement on the occasion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Diocese of Lahore initiated Akash Bashir's cause for beatification in 2016 on the first anniversary of the terrorist attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On January 31, as reported by Fides, the Archbishop of Lahore, Sebastian Shaw, announced that the Vatican had given the go-ahead for the young man to be declared a Servant of God. This confirms the first step in the cause of who could be the first saint of the Islamic Republic.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Art\u00edculo en ingl\u00e9s La Iglesia cat\u00f3lica de Pakist\u00e1n podr\u00eda contar con el primer santo pakistan\u00ed de su historia. La presencia del cristianismo en Pakist\u00e1n, un estado confesional musulm\u00e1n, se estima en menos de un 2%. Las confesiones cristianas presentes son objetivos frecuentes de atentados en este pa\u00eds, azotado por la lacra del terrorismo a manos [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":18391,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[36,46],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-18390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualidad","category-mundo","tag-jovenes"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Los cat\u00f3licos de Pakist\u00e1n podr\u00edan contar con su primer santo<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Akash Bashir, un joven que evit\u00f3 que un terrorista suicida entrara en una iglesia podr\u00eda ser el primer santo paquistan\u00ed.\" \/>\n<meta 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