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All Souls Day in the Philippines is an important holiday where families visit cemeteries to repaint tombs, offer flowers and light candles to remember loved ones. Many people will sleep or stay up all night in the cemetery, eating, playing games and

enjoying the company of family.

People Singing the Bato Balani sa Gugma at Cebu's Santo Nino Basilica during Sinulog Mass. ..The Sinulog festival is one of the grandest and most colorful festivals in the Philippines. The main festival is held each year on the third Sunday of January in Cebu City to honor the Santo Nino. The Sinulog is a dance ritual that commemorates the Filipino

people's pagan past and their acceptance of Christianity.

The Moriones is an annual festival held on Holy Week on the island of Marinduque, Philippines. The Moriones are men and women in costumes and masks replicating the garb of biblical Roman soldiers as interpreted by local folks.

A Korean man leaving a charcoal kiln sauna.

Koreans getting a therapeutic heat treatment from charcoal.

Street dancing during the Sinulog

grand parade.

Hanunoo script, Mangyan of Mindoro,Philippines., Philippines

In the Philippine province of Quezon there are still a number of men who wear elaborate costumes while performing their act of self flagellation. This unique costume with its colorful headdress called the tukarol and its skirt called the

saya is the last of it's kind in the Philippine Islands. The ritual is preformed during the early hours of Good Friday with preparations taking place at the start of Holy

Week.

Kristong Hari believes that Jesus Christ took possession of his body and in 1981 he started his ministry of healing people. He spends his days in front of the Quiapo church in Manila reaching out and healing

people who come to him.

Thousands gather on Palm Sunday to have palms blessed early morning in the Philippines

Horse fighting is a cultural sport still practiced by indigenous peoples in Mindanao

Cockfighting in the Philippines is called Sabong. There are illegal and legal cockfights in the country. Legal cockfights are held in local cockpits every week. Illegal cockfights, called tupada or tigbakay , happen any time in open areas. In both kinds of cockfights blades are used and

the gamecocks fight to the death.

Tropical bird collected from forest. Manobo Indigenous people of Bukidnon, Mindanao.

Devotees in front of the Basilica del Santo Nino after the Fluvial Procession. The Sinulog festival is one of the grandest and most colorful festivals in the Philippines. The main festival is held each year on the third Sunday of January in Cebu City to honor the Santo Nino. The Sinulog is a dance ritual that commemorates the Filipino people's pagan past and their acceptance of Christianity.

Religious icons in Filipino homes are common.

Mangyan indigenous peoples ritual, Mindoro, Philippines.

Fishermen heading out to work at dusk. Using these sudsud nets is a practiced used by fishermen in this area of the Philippines.

Police escort the image of the Santo Nino through the streets of Cebu City during its solemn procession

Fotos: Jakob Maentz