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Crowds throng as Jesus statue parades through Manila
AFP, Published on 09/01/2025
» MANILA - Scores of thousands of Catholic pilgrims swarmed the streets of Manila in search of a miracle Thursday, straining to reach a centuries-old statue of Jesus Christ in an annual display of religious fervour.
Black Nazarene draws millions in Manila
Published on 09/01/2024
» MANILA - More than six million Catholic devotees in the Philippines turned up for this year’s procession to honour the Black Nazarene, turning the streets of the capital into a sea of maroon and yellow, in a grand display of religious devotion.
Philippines' Black Nazarene feast draws hundreds of thousands of devotees
Reuters, Published on 09/01/2024
» MANILA - The streets of the Philippine capital turned into a sea of maroon and yellow on Tuesday as hundreds of thousands of Catholic devotees joined a procession in honour of the Black Nazarene in Asia's largest Catholic nation.
Syrian ex-prisoners haunted by horrors of 'salt rooms'
AFP, Published on 15/09/2022
» GAZIANTEP, Turkey: When a Syrian prison guard tossed him into a dimly-lit room, Abdo was surprised to find himself standing ankle-deep in what appeared to be salt.
Thousands throng Manila for Catholic feast
Published on 09/01/2021
» MANILA: Tens of thousands of people ignored government advice and flocked to Manila on Saturday to celebrate the feast of the Black Nazarene, a statue believed to have healing powers.
Devotees flock to Philippine church for miracle from Catholic icon
AFP, Published on 09/01/2021
» MANILA - Thousands of devotees thronged a church in the Philippine capital Saturday for a glimpse of a centuries-old statue of Jesus Christ believed to have miraculous healing powers, after an annual parade was cancelled due to Covid-19.
Christ's bodyguards: the men protecting the Philippines' revered Catholic icon
AFP, Published on 09/01/2020
» MANILA - Frenzied crowds, exhaustion and blazing heat were dangers bearing down on the cadre of guards who shield one of the Philippines' most revered Catholic icons from the believers desperate to touch it.
Philippine Catholics swarm Christ icon hoping for miracle
AFP, Published on 09/01/2020
» MANILA - Swarms of barefoot believers thronged a revered icon of Jesus Christ on Thursday in Manila for a slow-moving and raucous procession considered one of the world's largest shows of Catholic fervour.
Hordes hoping for miracle throng Philippine Catholic procession
AFP, Published on 09/01/2019
» MANILA - Throngs of believers flung themselves at a historic statue of Jesus Christ as it was paraded through the Philippine capital on Wednesday in an annual festival that is one of the world's biggest shows of Catholic zeal.
Grave dilemma: South African cities short of cemetery space
AFP, Published on 08/12/2018
» JOHANNESBURG - In the middle of the vast Avalon cemetery in Johannesburg's Soweto township, two gravediggers shovelled soil out of an old grave containing remains buried years ago.