The body of a Romanian nun who died in June during an exorcism ritual was exhumed today for forensic tests, the state news agency reported.

A court has freed a monk and four nuns who are charged with killing a nun last month during an exorcism ritual, authorities in Romania said today.

A monk and four nuns who have been charged with killing a nun during an exorcism ritual will remain in detention, a court ruled today.

THE arrest of a Romanian Orthodox priest after a 23-year-old nun was apparently chained to a cross, gagged with a towel and left for three days before she died, has caused uproar.

A ROMANIAN monk and four nuns have been charged with murder after a nun died during an exorcism ritual in which she was apparently crucified in a case which has sparked outrage and angry scenes in Romania in the last week.