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.

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 ...

Last year in the Pampanga village of San Pedro 19 men underwent the Easter crucifixion ritual. Many will return again this Friday.

While a majority of the Philippines’ 80 million Catholics spend Good Friday at church or with family, participants undergo the ordeal to atone for sins or to seek divine intervention.

Frowned upon by the Church, the crucifixions and self-flagellation are extreme Easter rituals that are affirmations of faith Noel CELIS, AFP ...

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 ...

I will do this every year for as long as I am able," 38-year-old truck driver Resty David, who has been self-flagellating for half his life at his village in the northern Philippines, told AFP.