Hundreds of thousands of barefoot devotees joined an annual procession in the Philippines of a centuries-old statue of Jesus ...

There is not a single African American Catholic canonized as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church. This omission persists even as Black Catholics have remained faithful despite the church's ...

Taking place each year in January, the procession sees devotees carry across Manila a replica of a famous life-size statue of ...

Nearly 80% of Filipinos identify as Roman Catholic, a key legacy of more than ... Sabino Vengco said in 2019 the statue’s revered black color was due to the mesquite wood used in constructing ...