Guard Who Stopped Islamic Terrorist From Entering Church With Bomb Placed on First Step to Sainthood

A security guard who was killed preventing a suicide bomber from entering a Pakistani church has been declared a Servant of God by the Vatican, placing him on the first step to sainthood in the Roman ⛪Catholic Church.

Akash Bashir was murdered on March 15, 2015, when Islamic terrorists targeted two Christian churches in Lahore, 🇵🇰Pakistan, with suicide bombings.

The 20-year old volunteer security guard was protecting the entrance to St. John’s ⛪Catholic Church when he heard that a nearby Anglican church had been attacked by a terrorist earlier that morning.

According to accounts of the attack, Bashir saw a man running toward the entrance of St. John’s with a suspicious device. The man demanded that Bashir allow him inside, but the security guard was fearless in the face of certain death.

“I will die, but I will not let you go in,” Bashir said, according to the Catholic News Agency.

Bashir went on to restrain the terrorist outside the church, where a suicide bomb was detonated. Hundreds of parishioners were inside at the time.