The shortage of products in Venezuela has turned for the worse. Aside from running out of toilet paper, the country's Catholics may also no longer have the wine and the host when they attend Mass.

The church estimated that its holy wine stock is enough only for two months. Bodegas Pomar, the only national winemaker in the South American nation, said it has difficulties making more wine, the church spokesman was quoted by BBC.

The communion host is also in short supply since it is made of wheat which is imported in the form of flour, but importers don't have sufficient foreign currency to buy more commodities overseas.

Other commodities in short supply because of panic buying, merchants hoarding goods, tight government controls and insufficient domestic production, are detergents, wheat and corn flour.

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