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Madrid - A Spanish Catholic priest has been stabbed and seriously injured by suspected members of a satanic sect, press reports said on Friday.

Father Priscilio Ruiz Picazo, 42, was a specialist on religious sects whose spreading influence he sought to oppose. On Wednesday, he received a phone call from a presumed sect member who either asked for help to leave the sect or offered to give him information, said the reports.

Father Ruiz went to meet the caller in the port of Gandia south of Valencia where he was attacked and stabbed in the back. The priest managed to get to his car and flee.
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There are at least a dozen sects in the eastern Valencia region, many of them dedicated to the worship of Satan, the reports said. Father Ruiz is a sect specialist with the Bishops' Conference, the highest organ of the Spanish Catholic Church. - Sapa-DPA

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