MANILA, Philippines — The traditional “Pahalik” that has been part of the annual feast ... Black Nazarene image from its original shrine in Bagumbayan, the present Rizal Park, to the Quiapo ...

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

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

The Feast of the Child Jesus-Sto. Ni?o is fast approaching. Pit Senyor ahead to you all! The sacred and secular celebrations of Sinulog are ongoing. Expect the crowds to swell from now till the ...

The Feast of the Black Nazarene, also known as Quiapo Fiesta, is one of the most significant religious events in the Philippines, attracting millions of devotees. Held annually on January 9 in the ...

The Feast of Black Nazarene is a ... 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 ...

But I believe one of the most comprehensive I have done came out recently (aside from my very first column in The Manila Times entitled "Bayanihan and order in the Black Nazarene ... feast day, ...

The procession marks the feast of Jesus Nazareno and is a major annual Catholic event in Asia. The image was previously called the Black Nazarene ... also known as Quiapo Church, at 1:25 a.m ...

The Feast of the Black Nazarene is one of the largest and most significant religious events in the Philippines. The celebration honors the life-sized, dark wooden statue of Jesus Christ carrying the ...

The Philippines' the largest religious festival ... of Quiapo in 1767. Annual processions commemorate this transfer. In 1988, the late Cardinal Jaime Sin, then archbishop of Manila, initiated the ...

THIS year's "Traslacion," or the annual procession of the Black Nazarene — the statue of Jesus of Nazareth carrying his cross toward Calvary for his crucifixion — again reminded us of the serious ...