Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Filipino Catholic devotees self-flagellate for lent MANILA (Reuters) - A group of 20 Catholic devotees walked barefoot for hours ...

Other articles on religious flagellation (such as one by Geoffrey Abbott in the online version of Encyclopaedia Britannica) also claim that self-flagellation is used as a way to drive out evil spirits ...

LONDON -- A man accused of involving two teenage boys in self-flagellation as part of a Muslim religious ritual was convicted of child cruelty yesterday.

Father Alessandro Coniglio, who presided over the Mass, emphasized to CNA that “the mystery of the blood of Christ is at the heart of Holy Week. On Holy Wednesday, the friars of the Custody of the ...

MANILA, April 6 (Reuters) - A group of 20 Catholic devotees walked barefoot for hours in Manila on Thursday while repeatedly striking their backs with bamboo whips to commemorate the passion of Jesus ...