Hundreds of thousands of barefoot devotees joined an annual procession in the Philippines of a centuries-old statue of Jesus Christ on Thursday in one of the world’s grandest displays of Catholic ...
The andas, or carriage, carrying the ebony statue of Jesus Nazareno arrived at the basilica around 5:45 p.m., greeted by cheers and shouts of “Viva Nazareno” from the crowd. Meanwhile ...
AS millions of Catholic Filipinos celebrated the Feast of Jesus Nazareno on Thursday, Manila Archbishop Jose Cardinal Advincula delivered a powerful reminder about the singular source of hope that ...
Barefoot men and women clad in maroon shirts -- the colour of the robe that covers the black, wooden Jesus of Nazarene statue -- scrambled to grab the rope used to draw the life-sized religious ...