MANILA, Philippines (AP) — At least 1.8 million mostly barefoot Catholic worshippers marched Thursday in an annual procession in the Philippines that venerates a centuries-old black statue of Jesus.

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Thousands of police and plainclothes officers were deployed, along with drone surveillance and commandos positioned on rooftops along the route of the procession. MANILA, ...

Happy Friday the 13th. While the rest of the world is busy panicking over broken mirrors and black cats crossing their paths, Filipinos are operating on an entirely different level—we’ve built an ...

A week or so ago, the Pew Research Center published a survey on “religious nationalism.” It is an unwieldy term, as the researchers admitted, but Pew did its best to simplify it. In the Philippines, ...

Hula dancers with grass skirts and flowers in their hair, food such as fresh mango, pineapple, roasted pig and salted fish delicacies, sun and high temperatures made folks feel like they had returned ...