Sisters Peggy LaBossiere, 51, and Rachel Hilaire, 40, pictured in a Massachusetts court, were arrested after they allegedly subjected the child to a demon-busting voodoo ceremony that permanently disfigured her. According to this report, the pair also threatened to cut off the head of the girl’s eight-year-old brother with a machete. The boy said his sister […]
Father Pat Collins, described as ‘a renowned exorcist’, has accused the Catholic Church of failing to deal adequately with an increase of evil in Ireland. According to this report, the priest – in an open letter to the church hierarchy – exhorted his country’s bishops to provide more backup in dealing with an “exponential” surge […]
Police in Ferndale, California, have commended the actions of a man who intervened when Kimberly Felder, 45, attacked her daughter on a beach. According to this report, Felder stripped her child naked on Centreville Beach yesterday and shoved handfuls of sand in the child’s eyes and mouth. Officials said Felder stated she was trying to free […]
William Ellis Watt, above, a Michigan man with a long history of violence, has been sent to prison for assaulting his daughter during the course of an exorcism. According to this report, Watt of Gregory was sentenced to one to 10 years in prison for an incident that occurred last September. A police report, filed […]
At the beginning of March this year we reported on the death of Vilma Trujillo, who died in Nicaragua shortly after being thrown onto a fire as part of a Christian exorcism. Well, justice has taken its course, and a pastor – Juan Gregorio Rocha Romero, above – and four of his followers have been […]
A court in Frankfurt this week sentenced a 44-year-old woman to six years in prison for her role in an exorcism that led to the death of her 41-year-old South Korean cousin. The trial, according to this report, also involved four other South Korean nationals who were all related to the female victim, including her […]
Mexican priest Father Francisco López Sedano, above, dismissed horoscopes as ‘ridiculous’ in a recent interview. Thinking that the stars influence our lives is “the biggest lie,” Lopez said. They’re a million miles away! They are bodies made up of metals and gases, how are they going to influence us? The same goes for magic, which is […]
Veteran Catholic exorcist Father Gabriele Amorth has died at the age of 91. The National Catholic Register reports that he had performed over 70,000 exorcisms over 29 years. In 1990, he founded the International Association of Exorcists and was President until he retired, in 2000. In one of his last interviews, Amorth blamed “pure atheism” for […]
People in Barcelona have been warned to steer well clear of a lunatic evangelical group founded in Denmark by Torben Sondergaard, above, which is staging several ‘spirituality seminars’ this weekend in in the city. The warning, according to this report, was sounded by Ireland’s Fiona O’Leary, of the group Autistic Rights Together (ART) who herself […]
A South African judge, due to sentence Aljar Swartz, above, for murder, said this week that she would ‘take into account’ the fact that killer had been freed of demonic possession by a cleric who carried out an exorcism outside Pollsmoor Prison in Cape Town. According to this report, Judge Elize Steyn, who is expected […]