The Feast of Jesus Nazareno, or the Black Nazarene, commemorates the transfer of the life-sized statue to its current home at Quiapo Church in Manila. The centuries-old image carrying a cross is ...

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MANILA, Philippines — The annual Feast of the Black Nazarene on Thursday ... gathered to venerate the centuries-old wooden statue of Jesus. Environmental watchdog EcoWaste Coalition said ...

This is kept at the Jesus Nazareno Parish church, which was also declared the Archdiocesan Shrine of the Black Nazarene. The devotees here during the Nazarene feast day reached over 100,000 in ...

For the first time, the feast day ... the procession of the ‘Black Nazarene’ is one of the most famous and popular. The statue represents Jesus bent under the weight of the Cross.

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 ...

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

local devotees honored the Feast of the Black Nazarene with a dawn procession, Mass, and a community feast, sharing stories of faith and answered prayers. Elaine Maynigo, owner of the Jesus of ...

MANILA, Philippines — The traditional “Pahalik” that has been part of the annual Feast of Jesus Nazareno started ahead of schedule this year as devotees began massing and lining up at the ...