Unlike Europe and other modern states, "religion continues to occupy a place in our society and in the lives of our people", professor David noted. The Philippines has the third-largest Catholic ...

Listen MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine president ... when many Catholic summer religious festivals are held. After an alarming surge in infections that started in March started to ease ...

Residents, covered with dried banana leaves and mud, light candles as they take part in a religious ritual known locally as the "Taong Putik" (Mud People) festival, while celebrating the Catholic ...

Pacquiao was raised Roman Catholic but later converted to Evangelical Protestant. The Philippines is the fifth largest Christian nation in the world. The country is also the largest Christian ...

Two people died and hundreds were injured during a huge religious festival in the Philippines, where barefoot crowds hurled themselves at a statue of Jesus believed to have healing powers, authorities ...

Sinulog is a grand cultural and religious festival held annually in Cebu City, Philippines, honouring Santo Nino or the Child Jesus. The event commemorates the local's conversion to Christianity ...

a local form of the Passion Play that Spanish friars introduced to the colonial Philippines in the late 17th century as a way of making an alien religion come alive in local neighbourhoods.

Manila (AFP) - Two people died and hundreds were injured during a huge religious festival in the Philippines, where barefoot crowds hurled themselves at a statue of Jesus believed to have healing ...