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 ...

Barefoot men and women clad in maroon shirts – the colour of the robe that covers the black, wooden Jesus of Nazarene ... The life-sized wooden statue was brought to the Philippines in the ...

Philippines – A towering 50-foot statue of Jesus Christ overlooking the blue waters of Macajalar Bay at Divine Mercy Hills has become the number one pilgrimage destination during Holy Week in ...

MANILA, Philippines — On Jan. 9 ... sees devotees carry across Manila a 400-year-old, life-size statue of Jesus Christ carrying a black wooden cross. Millions of Filipino Catholics join the ...

The statue of Jesus carrying the cross was brought to the Philippines from Mexico on a galleon in 1606 by Spanish missionaries. The ship that carried it caught fire, but the charred statue ...