Free Republic 2nd Qtr 2024 Fundraising Target: $81,000 Receipts & Pledges to-date: $57,572
71%  
Woo hoo!! And we're now over 71%!! Thank you all very much!! God bless.

Keyword: cutud

Brevity: Headers | « Text »
  • Fourteen Filipinos Crucified in Good Friday Re-enactment

    04/18/2003 7:55:30 AM PDT · by AmericanInTokyo · 69 replies · 628+ views
    ABC (Australian) News Online ^ | 18 April 2003 | ABC (Australian) News Online
    Title: "Fourteen Filipinos Crucified in Good Friday Re-enactment" Fourteen Filipinos devotees, including four women, have been nailed to the cross in a macabre re-enactment of Jesus Christ's suffering on Good Friday.The group re-enacts the arrest and condemnation which includes guards hammering five-inch nails dipped in alcohol into the devotees' palms and feet. Each devotee hung on the cross for five minutes, they were then brought down and sped off by a waiting ambulance. Tourists also lined a highway leading to Cutud as hundreds of "penitents", their heads hidden by shrouds, beat their backs with whips made from bamboo and shards...