Filipinos throng cemeteries for All Saints' Day

By Agence France-Presse

Nov 01, 2023 12:46 pm

MANILA, Philippines: FILIPINOS carrying flowers, candles and bags of food thronged cemeteries across the Catholic-majority Philippines on Wednesday to pay their respects to dead loved ones on All Saints' Day.

Hundreds of thousands of people fanned out across sprawling graveyards in the capital Manila to hold picnics on tombs or pray quietly in front of a relative or friend's final resting place.

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