ALONE among national congregations in the Catholic Church, the Filipino faithful are allowed two celebrations related to ...

The procession, called the “traslacion,” or translation, commemorates the transfer of the Black Nazarene from a church inside the old Spanish colonial capital of Intramuros, in present-day ...

The Traslacion is a re-enactment of the “solemn transfer” from Intramuros to Quiapo Church of the Black Nazarene’s replica, which was brought to the Philippines in 1606. The image is garbed ...

Clinical research provides a growing body of scientific evidence that having an abortion can cause psychological harm to some women. "Women who report negative after-effects from abortion know ...

The Black Nazarene procession in Manila ... with over 80% of the population of the Philippines belonging to the Church. The procession’s organizers estimated that about 220,000 people attended ...

Contrary to popular belief, the original statue likely did not catch fire during its journey from Mexico to Manila.

This relic of a distant era is a “gongso,” one of Korea's first Catholic churches. For six years, 62-year-old Lee Seoung-ho, a former civil servant, has been on a quest to photograph them.

The Nazarene procession started here in 2009 after the Minor Basilica in Quiapo gifted the local church with a replica of the statue of the dark-skinned Jesus bearing the cross. This is kept at ...

Hundreds 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 ...

The man, John Smyth, died in 2018. Welby, head of the Church of England and leader of the 85 million Anglicans worldwide, said on resigning that he must take "personal and institutional ...