The Archdiocese of Manila will soon have a "center for exorcism."
CBCP News said construction for the Saint Michael Center for Spiritual Liberation and Exorcism in Guadalupe Viejo, in Makati has started.
On May 17, the project broke ground with Manila Archbishop Cardinal Jose Advincula and Fr. Francisco Syquia, director of the Archdiocese of Manila Office on Exorcism (AMOE), in attendance.
Fr. Syquia said the center will "minister to those in bondage to the devil who are therefore the poorest of the poor and are usually overlooked."
The AMOE said the project is a product of more than seven years of “prayers, planning and fundraising” and “will be the first of its kind in Asia, if not the world."
The facility will house the archdiocese’s Commission on Extraordinary Phenomena, the Ministry of Exorcism Office, and the Ministry on Visions and Phenomena Office.
It will also serve as the headquarters of the Philippine Association of Catholic Exorcists (PACE), which is under the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines.
PACE is also affiliated with the International Association of Exorcists (IAE) based in Italy.