Hundreds of thousands of barefoot devotees joined an annual procession in the Philippines of ... and gold and swarmed the “Black Nazarene,” a life-sized image of Jesus Christ bearing down ...

The Feast of Jesus Nazareno, or the Black Nazarene, commemorates the transfer ... to be miraculous and was originally brought to the Philippines by Augustinian missionaries from Mexico in 1606.

This is the chaotic moment Catholics clamoured to touch a black Jesus statue at an annual festival in the Philippines. Footage shows the sea of devotees dressed in maroon and gold jockeying to ...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — At least 1.8 million mostly barefoot Catholic worshippers marched Thursday in an annual procession in the Philippines that venerates a centuries-old black statue of Jesus.

The annual procession for the Feast of the Black Nazarene or ‘Traslacion’ ended after more than 20 hours and 54 minutes early Friday morning with over 8 ...

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