Overview
- The Archdiocese of Granada sent an internal note on Monday, Oct. 26 instructing all parish priests to "extremar precauciones" to try to prevent robberies and profanations in the days before Halloween.
- A theft on Wednesday, Oct. 21 in the Parla parish of Nuestra Señora de la Asunción involved a taken tabernacle and about thirty consecrated hosts and was reported to police.
- The Policía Nacional says it has no record of recent theft complaints in Granada and the archdiocese says a warning circulated on X by a user called 'Álvaro' was a private tip, not an institutional alert.
- The internal guidance urges special care for churches that lack frequent priestly presence and recommends not leaving the Eucharist in unattended tabernacles while reaffirming rules that Communion taken in the hand must be consumed immediately.
- Religious monitors note a pattern of cases across Spain in 2025 and 2026 but say the reported totals do not prove a link to Halloween and that authorities should distinguish ordinary theft or theft for profit from deliberate sacrilege.