Philippines Holds Huge Catholic Parade Amid Duterte Attacks
- Five million devotees set to join Black Nazarene procession
- Church leader urged public to pray for Duterte and keep faith
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Over five million Catholics are expected to join one of the world’s biggest annual religious gatherings in the Philippines amid President Rodrigo Duterte’s heightened attacks on the Catholic Church.
In one of the biggest annual security challenges in Asia’s most Catholic nation, Philippine police have been placed on high alert to secure massive crowds joining Wednesday’s Feast of the Black Nazarene procession that features a black image of Jesus carrying a cross.