Faith never ends. And in a display of devotion that defies understanding, millions of barefoot Catholics once again braved the risks of taking part in the annual Black Nazarene procession in Manila on Wednesday, making atonement for their sins, raising petitions for heavenly favors and giving thanks for answered prayers.
A fire hit a building along Ramon Hidalgo Street near the Quiapo Church in Manila Wednesday evening, alarming Black Nazarene devotees at Plaza Miranda.
Tight security has riled devotees trying to enter the secured area of the Quirino Grandstand for the Feast of the Black Nazarene Wednesday.
Roughly 160,000 barefoot devotees have turned up at the Rizal Park for the feast of the Black Nazarene Wednesday morning, police said.
Quiapo, the last of the six “notorious markets” in the Philippines named by the Washington-based Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR), is no longer on the agency’s list this year.
The job had the mark of a professional: The triggerman only needed to see the target through the window of the victim’s sari-sari store and even had a sack ready for the spent bullet casings.
A grenade explosion inside a restaurant in Quiapo, Manila, late Wednesday night injured nine people, including two teenagers.
A man was shot dead by one of his three motorcycle-riding companions just as he returned from buying food from an eatery in Quiapo, Manila early Monday morning.
A fire that gutted several houses near a mosque in Quiapo, Manila has been declared under control, the Manila Fire Station said Friday.
The crowd seems to get bigger and bolder each year. But as Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Tagle explained: “To understand it, you need to be a devotee. Outsiders do not understand.”
Police and military officers early Monday morning have fanned out to various areas of Plaza Miranda amid reports of possible terror attacks during the Feast of the Black Nazarene.
Last year, around 1.5 million devotees joined the procession for the Feast of the Black Nazarene, the patron of Quiapo, which is celebrated every January 9.
