Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Filipino Catholic devotees self-flagellate for lent MANILA (Reuters) - A group of 20 Catholic devotees walked barefoot for hours ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Defying government ban, some Catholic devotees self-flagellate for Lent MANILA (Reuters) - Barefoot and with their backs bloodied ...

Hundreds of half-naked Filipinos marched on narrow roads, whipping their backs until they were bloody in a religious ritual Thursday as the mainly Roman Catholic state observed the Lenten season. Many ...

Responding to acts of extreme corporal mortification during Holy Week, Catholic bishops in the Philippines have discouraged practices such as self-flagellation and crucifixion in favor of more ...

MABALACAT CITY, Philippines - Catholics in the northern Philippine province of Pampanga, many bare-chested and hooded, practice self-flagellation in the sweltering heat in the week before Easter to ...

Father Alessandro Coniglio, who presided over the Mass, emphasized to CNA that “the mystery of the blood of Christ is at the heart of Holy Week. On Holy Wednesday, the friars of the Custody of the ...

MANILA, April 6 (Reuters) - A group of 20 Catholic devotees walked barefoot for hours in Manila on Thursday while repeatedly striking their backs with bamboo whips to commemorate the passion of Jesus ...