{"id":54147,"date":"2023-04-07T15:52:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T06:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/07\/easter-crucifixion-reenactments-resume-in-philippines-after-three-year-covid-pause"},"modified":"2023-04-08T00:21:18","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T15:21:18","slug":"easter-crucifixion-re-enactments-resume-in-philippines-after-three-year-covid-pause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54147","title":{"rendered":"Eight Filipinos nailed to crosses as Easter crucifixion re-enactments resume"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tourists gather in Philippines for cross nailings north of Manila despite church leaders frowning upon the tradition<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Eight Filipinos have been nailed to crosses to reenact Jesus Christ\u2019s suffering in a gory Good Friday tradition that draws thousands of devotees and tourists to the Philippines despite being rejected by the Catholic church.<\/p>\n<p>The real-life crucifixions in the farming village of San Pedro Cutud in Pampanga province north of Manila resumed after a three-year pause due to the coronavirus pandemic. About a dozen villagers registered, but only eight men participated, including 62-year-old sign painter Ruben Enaje, who was nailed to a wooden cross for the 34th time in San Pedro Cutud.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/07\/easter-crucifixion-reenactments-resume-in-philippines-after-three-year-covid-pause\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tourists gather in Philippines for cross nailings north of Manila despite church leaders frowning upon the traditionEight Filipinos have been nailed to crosses to reenact Jesus Christ\u2019s suffering in a gory Good Friday tradition that draws thousands of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3687,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,368,370,55,371,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-catholicism","category-christianity","category-philippines","category-religion","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3687"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54147"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54158,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54147\/revisions\/54158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}