Hundreds of thousands of barefoot devotees joined an annual procession in the Philippines of a centuries-old statue of Jesus ...

With its victory and subsequent annexation of the Philippines, Hawaii ... Troops on the march, Spanish American War. Artist Glackens, William J., 1870-1938. Library of Congress Congress approved ...

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 Catholic ...

Owing to centuries of Spanish colonization, the Philippines is one of the only predominantly Catholic countries in Asia. That has had a lasting impact on the archipelagic nation’s culture ...

With the baseline being the pre-Spanish 1500s—a time when the archipelago housed different independent polities, kingdoms and ...