The Catholic Church has performed an exorcism - on the entire country of Mexico.
According to the Catholic News Agency, the nation-wide exorcism was performed last month in the cathedral of San Luis Potosi, Archbishop Jesús Carlos Cabrero of San Luis Potosí, Spanish demonologist and exorcist Father José Antonio Fortea, and a smaller group of priests and lay people.
Mexico's high levels of violence, drug cartels and abortions have attracted demons, according to the church.
“To the extent sin increases more and more in a country, to that extent it becomes easier for the demons to tempt (people),” Fr. Fortea said.
They thus required a divine eviction notice, known as an “Exorcismo Magno.”
“The exorcism, performed in San Luís Potosí, is the first ever carried out in Mexico in which the exorcists came from different parts of the country and gathered together to exorcise the powers of darkness, not from a person, but from the whole country,” Fortea said.