News in Pictures: January 5, 2025
BUILDUP TO BIG ‘NAZARENE’ DAY
For the third straight day, devotees of the Black Nazarene have flocked to Quiapo Church in Manila in the run-up to the massive annual procession on Jan. 9.
Photos taken on Saturday show a group of men carrying a small replica of the Jesus Christ image and its adorned carriage, while a devotee stops in front of the church to pray—without needing to get off his bike.
At Quirino Grandstand, workers have begun to clean up the stage and the seats for the “pahalik”—or the period before the procession where the public can approach and touch a part of the original Nazarene image. —NIÑO JESUS ORBETA
COMMERCIAL FISHING MUST HAVE LIMITS
Activists from the Philippine Movement for Climate Justice and Oceana hold a demonstration outside the Supreme Court in Manila on Thursday.
They have filed a petition to intervene in a recent court ruling allowing commercial fishing vessels to operate in municipal waters that they said should remain reserved for smallscale fisherfolk. —GRIG C. MONTEGRANDE
NEW ORLEANS ATTACK
Investigators secure the white pickup truck driven by Shamsud-Din Jabbar and which he had slammed into a crowd of New Year’s Eve revelers on Bourbon Street, New Orleans, in this photo taken on Jan. 1.
Fifteen people on the street were killed while Jabbar died in an exchange of gunfire with the police. Government agents said an Islamic State flag was recovered from the vehicle. —AP
