Filipino Nailed to Cross Prays for Belgium

A Filipino devotee, nailed to a cross for the 30th time in an annual Good Friday ritual, said he hoped his painful sacrifice would help bring peace to Belgium and other countries targeted by Islamic extremists. Ruben Enaje and 14 other men, some screaming in pain, were nailed to wooden crosses by actors dressed as Roman centurions in San Pedro Cutud and two other rice farming villages in Pampanga province north of Manila, according to organizers. Thousands of foreign and local tourists...

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