drawing 8,124,050 individuals. This is much higher than last year’s procession where around 6.5 million devotees participated. Based on the tally released by the Quiapo Church, 1,290,590 ...

Hundreds of thousands of Catholic pilgrims swarmed the streets of Manila in search of a miracle on Thursday, straining to ...

The procession to the Philippine capital's Quiapo Church, which started before dawn ... statue -- scrambled to grab the rope used to draw the life-sized religious icon, believing it would bring ...

Hundreds of thousands of Catholic pilgrims swarmed the streets of Manila in search of a miracle yesterday, straining to reach a centuries-old statue of Jesus Christ in an annual display of religious ...

Based on data from the Quiapo Church and the local government of Manila ... Last year, the procession lasted almost 15 hours, drawing a crowd of over 6.52 million. In 2020, some 2.9 million ...

The procession to the Philippine capital's Quiapo Church, which started before dawn after an open ... wooden Jesus of Nazarene statue -- scrambled to grab the rope used to draw the life-sized ...

The PNP expects that this year’s Black Nazarene feast will draw approximately 6.5 million ... According to Nazareno 2025 and Quiapo Church spokesman Fr. Robert Arellano, a mass for volunteers ...

The special non-working day is in line with the Traslacion of the image of the Nazareno from Quirino Grandstand back to Quiapo Church, which is expected to draw millions of devotees. The CSC NCR ...

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

MANILA, Philippines—It was in 1606 when the Augustinian Recollects brought from Mexico a dark image of Christ that would later draw millions ... to its present church in Quiapo, Manila.