Staff writer, with CNAFilipinos in Taipei yesterday donned colorful costumes to celebrate a Catholic festival, the Sinulog, which is observed annually in their home country on the third Sunday of January. More than 200 Catholics, mostly Filipinos, gathered at St Christopher’s Church for the festival, which takes the form of a ritual prayer-dance in honor of Senor Santo Nino — the Catholic title of the Child Jesus in the Philippines. The festival began in Cebu City in the 1980s and has since spread around the world in commemoration of Filipinos’ acceptance of Christianity, said Father Edward Pacquing, the parish priest. I have seen the Sinulog in parishes and chaplaincies for Filipinos in Milan, Rome and Australia,” he added. At this year’s festival in Taipei, five St Christopher’s Church groups performed the Sinulog ritual-prayer dance, each portraying Queen Juana holding a statue of the child Jesus as she danced with her subjects.

Source: Taipei Times January 19, 2020 15:56 UTC