High Gas Prices Hamper Holy Week Pilgrimage in the Philippines

The New York Times | April 3, 2026, 5:51 p.m. | Original
Worshipers have scaled back and adjusted plans for the Visita Iglesia, a Holy Week tradition in which Catholics travel to seven churches in one day for prayer, as the war in Iran has doubled gas prices in the Philippines.
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