Evangelist Arthur Blessitt, who gained recognition for carrying a cross around the world, died on Jan. 14. He was 84.

The procession, locally known as Translacion, sees devotees carry across Manila a 400-year-old, life-size statue of Jesus ...

Hundreds of thousands of Catholic worshippers are marching in an annual procession in the Philippines that venerates a ...

THIS year's "Traslacion," or the annual procession of the Black Nazarene — the statue of Jesus of Nazareth carrying his cross ...

The Black Nazarene procession in Manila, Philippines, which annually attracts one of the world’s largest crowds for a religious devotion, attracted hundreds of thousands of enthusiastic ...

In his message, Marcos said carrying the image of the Jesus Nazareno and His own cross reminds us of the great sacrifice our Lord and Savior went through in His life. ''Moreover, it also speaks of the ...

At least 15 patients had to be brought to hospital. The statue of Jesus carrying the cross was brought to the Philippines from Mexico on a galleon in 1606 by Spanish missionaries. The ship that ...

Then he handed him over to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus, and carrying the cross himself he went out to what is called the Place of the Skull, in Hebrew, Golgotha. that we may ...