THIS year's 'Traslacion,' or the annual procession of the Black Nazarene — the statue of Jesus of Nazareth carrying his cross ...

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

Hundreds of thousands of barefoot devotees joined an annual procession in the Philippines of a centuries-old statue of Jesus Christ on Thursday in one of the world’s grandest displays of Catholic ...

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 climb ...

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 ..

Millions of Filipino pilgrims swarm the Black Nazarene statue, seeking to touch it as it passes by. (Photo: Courtesy of Jahbee Cruz) The Black Nazarene, a wooden statue of Jesus Christ crowned ...

The late Filipino priest and theologian Sabino Vengco said in 2019 the statue’s revered black ... commemorates the transfer of the Black Nazarene from a church inside the old Spanish colonial ...

Hundreds of thousands of Catholic pilgrims swarmed the streets of Manila in search of a miracle yesterday, straining to reach a centuries-old statue of Jesus Christ in an annual display of religious ...

The annual procession, one of the largest displays of Catholic devotion worldwide, commemorates the transfer of the revered Black Nazarene statue of Jesus Christ along a six-kilometer route ...