Pakistan’s first likely saint; US ambassador to Vatican nominee; Bishop Strickland on McElroy appointment; 3 years in, Rupnik case still “ongoing”; Nigerians honor murdered priest
Pakistan’s first sainthood candidate remains a little-known figure Akash Bashir was just 20 years old when he was killed on March 15, 2015, while preventing a suicide bomber from entering a packed Saint John’s Catholic Church during Sunday Mass. Both Bashir and the bomber were killed when the bomb exploded outside the church. Despite Bashir’s heroism [...]