It was brought to the Philippines in 1606 by Spanish Augustinian missionaries. Further reading: Filipino Black Nazarene devotion, is a cry for liberation From its arrival, the statue was ...

Cardinal David, who studied at the French Biblical and Archaeological School of Jerusalem, is considered one of the leading ...

A youngster performed an epic majorette dance at a street fiesta in the Philippines. Melvin Rio Protacio, 24, followed the tail of the Black Nazarene procession and did a baton twirling routine with a ...

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

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The procession marks the feast of Jesus Nazareno and is a major annual Catholic event in Asia.

For Congressman Sam Verzosa, the annual Feast of the Black Nazarene is more than a religious tradition—it mirrors his own ...

MANILA, Philippines — On Jan. 9, more than 8 million mostly barefoot Filipino devotees filled the streets of Manila for the annual “Black Nazarene” procession, one of the world’s largest ...

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

It is followed by another maroon event in January: the Traslacion of the Black Nazarene. The varsity team of the University of the Philippines (UP) is called the UP Fighting Maroons. UP’s teams ...