German Boy Soccer Wish: Facebook Helps Jens Pascal Gets Soccer GraveStone: Over 100,000 Fans Grant Tumor Victim Wishes

A German church has succumb to public pressure and will now allow Jens Pascal, a nine-year-old boy who died from a brain tumor get his last wishes. The church will allow his family to erect his gravestone with a soccer logo on it.

A Facebook campaign for the boy received 100,000 messages from many angry followers. The dispute made national headlines after a newspaper printed pictures of the boy with his favorite coach Juergen Klopp of the Borussia Dortmund. His parents and the Church have been in a public dispute because of a promise they made their dying son for his last wish, "Mummy, when I die, I would like a gravestone with the club logo," Pascal's mother, told Bild daily.

The promise had gone unanswered because the Church of Maria Heimsuchung in Dortmund denied the family to erect the gravestone with the club's logo and a soccer ball on top. The Church believes that it did not abide by church regulations which excludes non- Christian inscriptions and images on the tombstone.

After thousands of angry messages from soccer fans hit the internet the church finally decided to give into the boys wishes, "It was never the intention of the church to stand in the way of the little boy's last wish," the church said. "It was about reconciling the interests of the Church community, the cemetery rules and the interests of the parents of the child who died."

The Pascal family thanked their son's 140,792 Facebook fans for their comments and emails, "Now he will get his stone, even if it is a bit different than planned, he will get it and can at last rest in peace," the page said.