More than 2.6 million devotees on Tuesday joined the largest religious procession in the predominantly Catholic Philippines, jostling with each other during the hours-long march in honour of a centuries-old statue of Jesus Christ. The devotees, mostly wearing maroon and yellow shirts, walked barefoot in the procession called Traslacion – the highlight of the feast of the Black Nazarene, a life-size wooden statue of Jesus Christ crowned with thorns and bearing a cross. They believe the statue grants prayers and wishes to the faithful, and joining the procession and other activities of the festi…