Black Nazarene procession draws 1.5 million
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About 1.5 million barefoot Philippine devotees praying for miracles joined a procession yesterday as a black statue of Jesus Christ was paraded through the old commercial centre of Manila. About 4,000 soldiers, police and emergency workers were on duty, but there were no serious incidents.
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