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

It was brought to the Philippines in 1606 by Spanish Augustinian missionaries. Further reading: Filipino Black Nazarene devotion, is a cry for liberation From its arrival, the statue was ...

Kiray Celis has taken to Instagram to share a truly heartfelt message for Stephan. She started her post by saying that for as ...

Cardinal David, who studied at the French Biblical and Archaeological School of Jerusalem, is considered one of the leading ...

Catholics, other denominations hold a series of protest rallies against President Marcos, Vice President Duterte.

A youngster performed an epic majorette dance at a street fiesta in the Philippines. Melvin Rio Protacio, 24, followed the tail of the Black Nazarene procession and did a baton twirling routine with a ...

THIS year's 'Traslacion,' or the annual procession of the Black Nazarene — the statue of Jesus of Nazareth carrying his cross ...

This is the heroic moment a stray dog was rescued amid a crowd of devotees during the Nazarene festival in the Philippines.

An estimated eight million devotees turned out for this year’s Jesus Nazarene procession in Manila, one of the largest ...

MANILA, Philippines — On Jan. 9, more than 8 million mostly barefoot Filipino devotees filled the streets of Manila for the annual “Black Nazarene” procession, one of the world’s largest ...

Hundreds of thousands of barefoot devotees joined an annual procession in the Philippines of a centuries ... of maroon and gold and swarmed the “Black Nazarene,” a life-sized image of Jesus ...

Coco Martin’s devotion traces back more than a decade ago at a time when he was earnestly praying for a job, any job, to the Catholic icon.