Buenaventura, Colombia, Jul 11, 2019 / 15:18 pm
Bishop Rubén Darío Jaramillo Montoya of Buenaventura will perform blessings throughout his cathedral city Saturday, hoping to counter it's extreme violence, including kidnappings and murders.
Buenaventura is Colombia's main port on the Pacific, and so is a key point in the international drug trade.
In recent years, Human Rights Watch has said the city's neighborhoods are controlled by "paramilitary successor groups" which engage in extortion and violence.
Bishop Jaramillo had originally shared the idea of performing a blessing on the city from a helicopter. The news has been erroneously reported by some media as an exorcism.