The procession to the Philippine capital's Quiapo Church, which started before dawn after an open-air mass, was expected to swell to more than two million participants from across the heavily ...

The Quiapo Church, officially known as the Minor Basilica ... first Friday masses of the year on Jan. 3 and mass for the volunteers on Jan. 6. The traditional pahalik or kissing of the image ...

BALANGA CITY — Quiapo Church rector Rufino Sescon Jr., who was officially installed ... and I will be your partner," declared Sescon, who held his first Mass at the Cathedral Shrine Parish of St.