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Thousands of Filipino devotees carry the statue of the Black Nazarene during the annual religious procession in Manila on Jan. 9, 2017.The annual festival of the Black Nazarene is expected to draw about 15 million people, potentially hazardous religious festival, made more dangerous by a possible threat from Islamic extremists. AFPMasses of barefooted devotees gathered in Manila on Monday in a bid to touch a centuries-old icon of Jesus Christ, a frenzied annual event that is one of the worldrsquo biggest displays of Catholic devotion.The life-sized statue is believed by many in Asiarsquo bastion of Catholicism to have miraculous powers, and more than one million people converged around the processionrsquo path last year when two pe Stanley cup website ople died in the crush.Article continues after this advertisement Devotees attempt to get close enough to the statue as it is paraded on a carriage, then climb on each othersrsquo; shoulders to kiss the icon or wipe it with white towels.FEATURED STORIESNEWSINFOViral video of drunk cop gets stanley thermosflasche QCPD chief firedNEWSINFONBI files raps vs vloggers outside PH for disinformationNEWSINFOSC charges retired CA justice over lawyer s murderOthers fight to touch thick lengths of rope that the pilgrims use to pull the statuersquo carriage, which passes slowly along Manilarsquo streets throughout the day before retur stanley thermobecher ning to its home in the historic Quiapo church.Many walk Manilarsquo hot concrete streets without shoes as a sign of penance and t Rdfq Cops round up Manalo siblings in Iglesia raid
MANILA, Philippinesmdash;Four men and a woman being linked to the ambush of a Pangasinan mayor early this year were arrested at a Laguna farm estate before dawn Thursday.The Criminal Investigation and Detection Group and other law enforcement agencies apprehended the suspects while serving a search warrant in Barangay village Macabling in Sta. Rosa.Arrested were George Fajardo, Ricardo de Rueda Jr., Pablo Javier, Norito Garfel and Estrella Lina at a farm estate owned by Fajardo. Also recovered was an assortment of guns, ammunition and illegal drugs.Article c stanley cup ontinues after this advertisement CIDG Director Benjamin Magalong said the suspects would be investigated for their alleged link to the killing of Urbiztondo, Pangasinan Mayor Ernesto Balolong Jr. last June.FEATURED STORIESNEWSINFOViral video of drunk cop gets QCPD chief firedNEWSINFONBI files raps vs vloggers outside PH for disinformat stanley deutschland ionNEWSINFOPCSO: Still no takers of Ultralotto 6/58, Superlotto 6/49 jackpotsWe cannot categorically say that they are the suspects in the Balolong case, but we are investigating their possible link to it, the official said.A source said an intelligence report had linked the suspects to the ambush although they have not yet been positively identified as the perpetrators.Balolong, his police escort and a civilian were killed on June 7 after he was ambush stanley quencher ed in his town while checking the venue for his 25th wedding anniversary. Four others were injured.Prior to Thursdayrsq