Exorcism requests on the rise in French-speaking Switzerland
Representatives of the Catholic Diocese of Lausanne, Fribourg and Geneva say they responded last year to 550 people who said they were possessed by the devil. That’s a third more than in 2006.
Also quoted this week is the priest in charge of exorcisms for the canton of Vaud, who says genuine exorcisms are extremely rare. He reckons there are really only about four or five per year. But for many of us, even the idea of a real-life exorcism seems far-fetched.
To look more closely at this phenomenon, Susan Flory speaks to Professor Michael Felder, a professor of theology at the University of Fribourg...
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