Dean Bernardo for RTE: Re-Enactment of Christ's Crucifixion on Holy Week

Some Filipinos take to the extreme their deeply rooted Catholic beliefs and on the Lenten season, mimic and re-enact the actual suffering of Jesus Christ from physical hurting to an actual crucifixion as a way to demonstrate their faith, seek out a favor or a commitment to continue what their parents and grand parents have done in the past. Voice report filed for "World Report" of RTE, recorded on location in the crucifixion hill in the village of San Pedro Cutud in San Fernando City, Pampanga province in the Philippines.

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• Philippines
• Lenten
• Holy
• Week
• rites
• crucifixion
• San
• Fernando
• Pampanga
• Jesus
• Christ