By MARK STEVENSON
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Hundreds of Mexican devotees of Saint Death - a cult worshipping the skeletal figure of death - marched through downtown Mexico City Friday to demand respect for their religion and its followers....
Holding banners reading "Respect Religious Freedom" and "We are not criminals or drug addicts," marchers drawn from some of the city's roughest barrios carried statues of the elegantly-clad Grim Reaper down the city's main boulevard.
The march was called in response to an investigation launched last month by Mexico's Interior Department into complaints that the church falsely registered itself as an offshoot of Roman Catholicism, which neither recognizes nor approve of the death cult.
Some of the anger was directed at the government - which has not yet decided whether to sanction the group - but there was also resentment at the official Catholic church and society at large for looking down at the Death worshippers....
Many of the faithful recount miracles performed for them by Saint Death - depicted as a smiling female skeleton known as our "Our Little White Girl," the right-hand servant of God....
The faithful regard La Santa Muerte as an angel or saint who only kills based on God's orders. "It's better to make her your friend," Almanza noted.
Somebody remind me, is this one of the signs of the Apocalypse?
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