Mexico’s Catholic Church has inaugurated its first ever church dedicated to exorcisms.

The Church located in the central city of Queretaro is named La Capilla de las Benditas Animas del Purgatorio, BBC News reports.

The Mexican Church says that in Mexico City alone there are about 10 cases a month - and the phenomenon is on the rise but there are no figures for the whole country, the BBC says.

Exorcism predates the arrival of the Spanish in the 16th Century.

Aztec healers also burned herbs and prayed to eliminate the influence of bad spirits.

A local priest, Fr Rogelio Cano, told the BBC that the new church will only accept cases that have been already been treated by doctors and psychiatrists.

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Exorcism church opened in Mexico ^[1] (BBC News)