Photos show Philippine Catholics smearing mud on their bodies for festival honoring John the Baptist

BIBICLAT, Philippines (AP) — Devout Catholics smeared their bodies with mud and wore banana leaves as they participated in an annual festival in Bibiclat, a village in the Philippines, on Wednesday. The Taong Putik, or Mud People, festival has been passed on from generation to generation in the com...

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