{"id":67339,"date":"2022-06-12T07:53:42","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T11:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldcatholicnews.com\/construction-begins-in-philippines-on-asias-first-exorcism-center\/"},"modified":"2022-06-12T07:53:42","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T11:53:42","slug":"construction-begins-in-philippines-on-asias-first-exorcism-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldcatholicnews.com\/construction-begins-in-philippines-on-asias-first-exorcism-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Construction begins in Philippines on Asia\u2019s first exorcism center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<!-- --><\/p>\n<div class=\"cnsdetail_tx\">\n<!-- --><\/p>\n<p>MANILIA, Philippines \u2014 The Manila Archdiocese has begun construction of Asia\u2019s first-ever exorcism center to address what it says is a growing number of possessions in the Philippines and to train budding exorcists in the region.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p><!-- --><\/p>\n<p>Building work on the St. Michael Center for Spiritual Liberation and Exorcism began June 6 in the capital\u2019s Makati business district, ucanews.com reported.<\/p>\n<p>            <!-- --><br \/>\n<!-- --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis religious structure will be the first of its kind in Asia, if not the world. The center will house the Archdiocese of Manila Commission on Extraordinary Phenomena, the Ministry of Exorcism Office, the Ministry on Visions and Phenomena Office, and will serve as the headquarters of the Philippine Association of Catholic Exorcists (PACE),\u201d the archdiocese said in a Facebook post.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><\/p>\n<p>PACE is a group of Catholic exorcist priests that falls under the Catholic Bishops\u2019 Conference of the Philippines and is affiliated with the International Association of Exorcists based in Rome.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><\/p>\n<p>Father Jos\u00e9 Francisco Syquia, the archdiocese\u2019s chief exorcist, leads the project.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis center will minister to those in bondage to the devil who are therefore the poorest of the poor and are usually overlooked,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><\/p>\n<p>Syquia said a rising number of demonic possession cases led the archdiocese to undertake the project.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve had a sharp increase in cases in the past three to five years,\u201d Syquia wrote in a 2021 article without giving an estimated number.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><\/p>\n<p>The center will include a chapel dedicated to Mary, named as the Our Lady of the Angels.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><\/p>\n<p>Cardinal Jose Advincula of Manila and Father Syquia led the groundbreaking ceremony for the center in May.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><\/p>\n<p>Church officials said they hope the center will attract priests from across Asia to study and to train how to be exorcists.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><\/div>\n<p><!-- --><\/div>\n<p>Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/cruxnow.com\/cns\/2022\/06\/construction-begins-in-philippines-on-asias-first-exorcism-center\/\"target=\"_blank\">Source link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILIA, Philippines \u2014 The Manila Archdiocese has begun construction of Asia\u2019s first-ever exorcism center to address what it says is a growing number of possessions in the Philippines and to train budding exorcists in the region. 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