Despite Manila fibers being their main component, it took a while for the term Manila envelope to catch on. The Oxford ...

A scuffle sparked shortly after the procession began at the Quirino Grandstand on Thursday morning, where two groups of devotees fought to touch the rope of the andas or the carriage of the Jesus ...

Filipinos turned the streets of Manila to a sea of maroon and gold and ... as devotees jostled for a chance to pull the thick rope towing the carriage across the Philippine capital.

Hundreds of thousands of Catholic worshippers are marching in an annual procession in the Philippines that venerates a centuries-old black statue of Jesus.