As the pope himself noted, there is always the danger of reducing popular piety to external rituals and superstition ...

January 9 commemorates the day in 1787 when the Archbishop of Manila ordered the Black Nazarene to be transferred from its original church to Quiapo Church in the capital, where the statue remains ...

BECAUSE I studied the Traslacion for a graduate dissertation, I have given many interviews and op-eds already on the devotion ...

A youngster performed an epic majorette dance at a street fiesta in the Philippines. Melvin Rio Protacio, 24, followed the tail of the Black Nazarene procession and did a baton twirling routine with a ...

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

This is the heroic moment a stray dog was rescued amid a crowd of devotees during the Nazarene festival in the Philippines.

Cebu City DPS reported collecting 202.3 tons of basura for 2024 Sinulog! These unsegregated basura ended up in unsanitary landfills of both cities. You can imagine how much filth, stench, harm and ...

Show more Show less The black statue of Jesus of Nazarene leaves a park following a mass during an annual religious procession in Manila on Thursday Devotees carry the religious icon during a ...

An estimated eight million devotees turned out for this year’s Jesus Nazarene procession in Manila, one of the largest ...

MANILA, Philippines — On Jan. 9, more than 8 million mostly barefoot Filipino devotees filled the streets of Manila for the annual “Black Nazarene” procession, one of the world’s largest ...

Filipinos turned the streets of Manila to a sea of maroon and gold and swarmed the “Black Nazarene,” a life-sized image of Jesus Christ bearing down a cross, as devotees jostled for a chance ...