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Cairo, 23.10.2014 Every Thursday evening it's exorcism night in Cairo, Egypt. It all happens at an impressive cave church in the ward of Manshiet Nasr, also known as Garbage City. Right after the evening's mass at St. Sama'an Cathedral, dozens of people want to get rid of the devil. At the center of it is Father Sama'an. Equipped with a bottle of holy water and his cross he walks through the crowd, liberating women and men, Muslims and Copts from what they believe hunts them – the devil inside. Some of the worshipers start to scream, some are falling in a state of trance and others even lose conscious for a moment. (KEYSTONE/Pascal Mora)