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A man clambers above fellow devotees as he tries to touch the life-sized Black Nazarene statue during the annual religious procession in honor of the Black Nazarene in Manila on January 9, 2016. Barefoot men and women in search of miracles hurled themselves above huge crowds in the Philippines on January 9 to touch a centuries-old icon of Jesus Christ as one of the world's largest Catholic festivals got under way. (AFP/RSS)

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