WESTPORT—Filipino Catholics from Fairfield County, New York, New Jersey and beyond recently gathered at the Church of the Assumption in Westport to celebrate the Annual “Sinulog Festival” in honor of the Infant Jesus or Santo Nino.
The Sinulog Festival is an annual cultural and religious festival held on the third Sunday of January and is the center of the Santo Niño Catholic celebrations in the Philippines.
The festival is considered first from among other festivals in the Philippines, with every celebration of the festival routinely attracting around 1 to 2 million people from all over the Philippines and the world.
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