While most Black Nazarene devotees whisper their own personal prayers at the Quirino Grandstand at dawn of Tuesday, 53-year-old Lucracia dela Vega prayed that her fellow-Mindanaoans from Marawi ...

He may be lambasting the Catholic Church at every turn, but President Duterte was included in the prayers yesterday as millions of devotees celebrated the Feast of the Black Nazarene.

Faith never ends. And in a display of devotion that defies understanding, millions of barefoot Catholics once again braved the risks of taking part in the annual Black Nazarene procession in ...

MANILA, Philippines — This year’s Traslacion would follow a slightly different route, according to organizers of the annual Black Nazarene procession. The organizers on Wednesday revealed the ...

President Rodrigo Duterte urged Catholics nationwide to offer prayers on Jan. 9 to the Philippines’ most revered object of devotion — the Black Nazarene — for everyone infected by Covid-19 after the ...

Mostly poor crowd offer prayers dressed in purple - the colour associated with Nazarene - before a parade This year prayers called for peace in the Middle East, where many Filipinos work as ...

To pull the ropes hauling the Black Nazarene through the city every Jan. 9 is a popular form of panata — an act of penance or holy devotion often undertaken as a repayment to a prayer that was ...

The Black Nazarene, a 400-year-old, life-size statue of Jesus Christ crowned with thorns and carrying a black cross, was brought to Manila from Mexico in 1606. (Photo: Courtesy of Jahbee Cruz) ...