MANILA (Reuters) – Barefoot and with their backs bloodied by repeated flogging, Catholic devotees in the Philippines defied a ban on gatherings on Good Friday to perform a ritual of self-flagellation ...

They self-flagellate for 20 minutes, approximately, hitting their backs with sharp razor blades attached to the end of a string relentlessly. Children, from age 10 up can also participate in the ...

Last week, my colleague Evan Goldstein and I talked with four longstanding Chronicle Review contributors — Randall Kennedy, Amna Khalid, Holden Thorp, and Keith Whittington — about what Trump’s first ...

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