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

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Show more Show less The black statue of Jesus of Nazarene leaves a park following ... swarmed the streets of Manila in search of a miracle on Thursday, straining to reach a centuries-old statue ...

More than eight million people participated in one way or another in the Traslacion. That’s 55 percent of Metro Manila’s population of over 14 million (as of 20 ...

Though the ship carrying it caught fire, the charred statue survived and was named the “Black Nazarene.” Now enshrined at Quiapo Church, it remains a powerful symbol of miracles and answered ...

Filipinos turned the streets of Manila to a sea of maroon and gold and swarmed the “Black Nazarene,” a life-sized image of Jesus Christ bearing down a cross, as devotees jostled for a chance ...

(UPDATE) HUNDREDS of thousands of Catholic pilgrims swarmed the streets of Manila in search of a miracle on Thursday, straining to reach a centuries-old statue of Jesus Christ in an annual display of ...

The Black Nazarene procession in Manila, Philippines, which annually attracts one of the world’s largest crowds for a religious devotion, attracted hundreds of thousands of enthusiastic ...

Barefoot men and women clad in maroon shirts -- the colour of the robe that covers the black, wooden Jesus of Nazarene statue -- scrambled to grab the rope used to draw the life-sized religious icon, ...

MANILA, Philippines (Updated 11:28 a.m.) — Hundreds of thousands of Catholic pilgrims swarmed the streets of Manila in search of a miracle Thursday ... statue of the Black Nazarene in an ...