{"id":83829,"date":"2026-06-20T08:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=83829"},"modified":"2026-06-20T08:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:41:09","slug":"portugals-unofficial-exorcism-fever-worries-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/portugals-unofficial-exorcism-fever-worries-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Portugal&#8217;s Unofficial Exorcism Fever Worries Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>Citizen Digital:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.citizen.digital\/170587\/conversions\/01236378-1ddd-42b1-82a2-975095c028bf_AFP__20260620__B78C24L__v1__MidRes__PortugalReligionExorcism-og_image.webp\" alt=\"Portugal's unofficial exorcism fever worries Church\" width=\"378\" height=\"252\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 500 !important;\">A woman closes her eyes as a young man dressed as a priest places both hands on her forehead. Moments later, she falls to the floor in front of dozens of worshippers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 500 !important;\">The scene unfolds not in a church but in the basement of a small shopping centre a short walk from the vast esplanade of Portugal&#8217;s Fatima shrine, one of the Catholic Church&#8217;s most visited pilgrimage sites.\u00a0The gathering was part of a series of monthly so-called &#8220;exorcism retreats&#8221; held in Fatima that have raised concerns among Catholic authorities, who say they operate outside official Church oversight by self-styled religious figures and risk exploiting vulnerable believers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Citizen Digital: A woman closes her eyes as a young man dressed as a priest places both hands on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83829","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83830,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83829\/revisions\/83830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}