A bishop is planning on spraying a Colombian town in holy water in a bid to free it from demonic forces.
Monsignor Rubén Darío Jaramillo Montoya wants to borrow a navy helicopter in order to dump a load of the religiously significant liquid on Buenaveuntura.
The Catholic holy man intends to head to the skies on July 14 on the feast day of the town's patron saint.
According to the 52-year-old a good dose of holy water is needed to free the seaport of its sins.
"We want to go around the whole of Buenaventura from the air and pour holy water onto it... to see if we exorcise all those demons that are destroying our port," the bishop told a local radio station.
"So that God's blessing comes and gets rid of all the wickedness that is in our streets.
"In Buenaventura we have to get rid of the devil to see if we can return the tranquillity that the city has lost with so many crimes, acts of corruption and so much evil and drug trafficking."
While the city is the busiest port in Colombia and accounts for 60% of all of the country's imports, it has been impoverished by gangs trying to take control of the port.
In the past year there have been 51 murders in Buenaveuntura - a city with a 333,000 residents.
It is known to be terrorized by paramilitary gangs who have extorted and kidnapped locals.
Although things have become more peaceful in recent years, between 2008 and 2010 the number of reported murders in the city doubled.
In 2010, the murder rate of Buenaventura was 175.2 homicides per 100,000 - 24 times that of New York City.
In Catholicism holy water is not allowed to be disposed of through regular plumbing, instead requiring a special basin which leads directly into the ground.
It is not clear whether airdropping holy water is frowned upon by the church.
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