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 ...

The image was previously called the Black Nazarene, but church officials ... minor injuries as of Thursday afternoon. The statue of Jesus carrying the cross was brought to the Philippines from ...

BECAUSE I studied the Traslacion for a graduate dissertation, I have given many interviews and op-eds already on the devotion of Filipinos to Jesus Nazareno ... entitled "Bayanihan and order in the ...

The Feast of Black Nazarene is a yearly celebration ... Pope Innocent X approved the veneration of the statue in 1650 and officially established the Brotherhood of Jesus Nazarene.

The Philippines' the largest religious festival yesterday drew millions of Catholics from all over the country from all walks of life to its procession to pray and pay homage to image of Jesus, ...

Held annually on January 9 in the Quiapo district of Manila, this festival honors the Black Nazarene, or Hesus Nazareno, a full-sized statue of a dark-skinned statue of Jesus Christ carrying the cross ...

Taking place each year in January, the procession sees devotees carry across Manila a replica of a famous life-size statue of Jesus carrying a black wooden cross. Cardinal Jaime Sin’s family ...

In Częstochowa, home to the famous shrine of Our Lady of Częstochowa and the miraculous image of the Black Madonna, there is a 14-metre-high statue of ... of the birth of Jesus Christ.

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

From the pianoforte to the smartphone, each wave of tech has sparked fears of brain rot. But the problem isn’t our ability to ...