The decadeslong crucifixion tradition, meanwhile, has put impoverished San Pedro Cutud — one of the more than 500 villages in rice-growing Pampanga province — on the map.

Christian devotees from the Philippines were nailed to a cross on Friday in a reenactment of Jesus Christ's crucifixion in the predominantly Catholic nation. Hundreds of Filipinos and foreign ...

A re-enactment of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ resumed on Good Friday in the Philippines after a three-year halt due to Covid-19. The real-life crucifixions took place in the farming village of ...

The road to Easter starts on Holy Thursday, the beginning of the Easter Triduum or "three days," when the Mass of the Lord's Supper is celebrated in the evening. Passion plays and reenactments of the ...

The decadeslong crucifixion tradition, meanwhile, has put impoverished San Pedro Cutud — one of the more than 500 villages in rice-growing Pampanga province — on the map.

Ahead of their crucifixion on a dusty hill, Enaje and the other devotees, wearing thorny crowns of twigs, carried heavy wooden crosses on their backs for more than a kilometer (more than half a mile) ...