Hundreds of devotees hold vigil for Black Nazarene in Cagayan de Oro

6,000 cops secure Cagayan de Oro’s Black Nazarene feast

Up to 6,000 members of the Northern Mindanao police were deployed to secure the celebration of the Feast of the Black Nazarene in this city yesterday.

Hundreds of devotees hold vigil for Black Nazarene in Cagayan de Oro

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – Hundreds of devotees flocked to the Saint Augustine Cathedral here for a vigil for the Black Nazarene, ahead of its feast day on Friday. Some of the devotees brought with them miniature Nazarene statues. A devotee told the Inquirer he takes his family’s Nazarene statue outside their home only twice a year; first for the vigil on the eve of the feast, and then for the procession or traslacion on feast day. From the Nazareno …

Devotees seek justice in Traslacion amid flood control graft

THOUSANDS of devotees joined the annual Black Nazarene procession here Friday, turning the religious event into a platform for expressing outrage over a corruption scandal involving public officials. Father Der John Faborada, social communications director of the Cagayan de Oro Archdiocese, said many parishioners sought accountability regarding the multibillion-peso flood control controversy. “Many of our parishioners are outraged over this corr…

Black Nazarene devotees seek divine hand vs corruption

Devotees reach to touch the statue of the Black Nazarene inside the Cagayan de Oro Metropolitan Cathedral where it was brought for a vigil on January 8, eve of the Traslacion. MindaNews photo by FROILAN GALLARDO CAGAYAN DE ORO (MindaNews / 9 January) — Many of the devotees who joined the Traslacion, the annual procession for the replica of the Black Nazarene, here Friday expressed through prayers their outrage over corruption involving high publ…