A senior Vatican official has condemned the cult of Santa Muerte, or Holy Death, in Mexico as "blasphemous".
The president of the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Culture, Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, said worshipping Santa Muerte was a "degeneration of religion".
Cardinal Ravasi spoke at a series of events for believers and non-believers in Mexico City.The cult, which reveres death, has been growing rapidly in Mexico.
It is represented by a cloaked female skeleton clutching a scythe.It is particularly popular in areas of Mexico that have suffered from extreme violence carried out by the country's drug cartels.The cult is believed to date back to colonial times. BBC News - Vatican declares Mexican Death Saint blasphemous
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