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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The local government of Cagayan de Oro and other agencies concerned have convened to finalize preparations for the Feast of the Black ... and the Jesus Nazareno Parish-Archdiocesan Shrine of the Black ...

for the Feast of the Black Nazarene. Nazareno 2025 is themed “Mas mabuti ang pagsunod kaysa paghahandog (1 Sam. 15:22) sa mga umaasa kay Jesus.” Novena masses began on Tuesday, Dec. 31 and are ...

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 ...

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

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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 ...

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 ...