Exorcism

Police received a bizarre call that an exorcism was being performed in the lumber aisle of a Home Depot store in Dickson City, Pennsylvania.

The head of Moscow's Patriarchate has said that the church would release guidelines for the process, which must be carried out by an approved priest.

Lloyd Lasker Jr, who runs the House of Refuge and Deliverance Ministries church in the town of Mayflower, allegedly told police he tried to perform the act on a 21-month-old boy.

Carlo Maria Vigano is asking Catholic clergy to participate in a mass exorcism against Satan and the Apostate Angels at 3 p.m. on Saturday "so we can all fight together the common enemy of the whole human race."

Father Francois Dermine of the Archdiocese of Ancona-Osimo in Italy has been an exorcist for over 25 years, and he claims that "society risks collapse" because of "aggressive Satanism" making its way into the culture.

While less people are attending the Catholic Church, exorcisms and the training of priests for exorcist rituals have increased.

Pablo Martinez, 31, told federal investigators that he poured hot water down the boy's throat from the bath faucet on September 26 and held him underwater for five to 10 minutes.

Blaine Milam was sentenced to death in 2010 and was set to be Texas's first execution of 2019.

Shin Ok-ju could be seen throwing followers to the ground and forcibly cutting one woman's hair.

Police found 11 children being kept in filthy conditions at the compound.

Though William Friedkin's new documentary "The Devil and Father Amorth," revisits his horror classic, "The Exorcist," Friedkin remains uncertain about the true nature of demonic possession.

The New York queen speaks exclusively to Newsweek about undergoing gay "conversion therapy."

Priests and theologians from 51 countries are attending the annual Exorcism and Prayer of Liberation conference in Rome.

"This is not fiction. It's different from all the movies."

Police said they found 33 garlic cloves lodged in the victim's windpipe and determined she died of suffocation.

The Vatican is snowed under with exorcism requests so "independent" ghostbusters are stepping in.

Anyone who doesn't see the need for more exorcists is "out of touch with reality."

Exorcisms are often unspectacular, though unofficial exorcisms have sometimes had tragic consequences.

The ordeal, which included being tied to a bed, led to the girl attempting to kill herself.