The Vatican has decided to hold a week-long international conference in April to address a three-fold increase in the demand for exorcists in Italy alone. The church is reportedly very much concerned about the fact that new priests are no longer willing to learn the techniques of exorcism even though the demand is increasing day by day.
The decision to hold a week-long International conference came just days after the Vatican conducted a four-day meeting in Sicily that included testimony on sects and Satanism.
Friar Beningo Palilla, one of the Sicily gathering’s organizers told Vatican radio that there are more than 500,000 cases reported in Italy which demand exorcism. Palilla revealed that the obsession of people towards the services of fortune tellers and Tarot readers has increased drastically in the recent years, and these practices have opened the doors for negative forces which will finally result in demonic possession.
Palilla insisted that priests should master themselves in exorcism, as self-taught exorcist will be more prone to meeting with errors.