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 ...

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 ...

Filipino Catholics Pray for Good Health and Peace in Huge Procession Venerating Jesus Statue MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Some 1.8 million mostly barefoot Catholic worshippers marched Thursday in ...