AFP News Agency(@AFP):🇵🇭 🕯️ Philippine town's All Saints' Day ritual draws more and more tourists Tiny bonfires burned through the night at a mountain cemetery as the largely Christian Philippines remembered its dead, turning a fog-shrouded hilltop into a vast altar of light. The eerie Panag-aapoy ("to light a fire") ceremony in the tourist town of Sagada has marked All Saints' Day for the past 122 years

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2026.11.03 13:07

🇵🇭 🕯️ Philippine town's All Saints' Day ritual draws more and more tourists Tiny bonfires burned through the night at a mountain cemetery as the largely Christian Philippines remembered its dead, turning a fog-shrouded hilltop into a vast altar of light. The eerie Panag-aapoy ("to light a fire") ceremony in the tourist town of Sagada has marked All Saints' Day for the past 122 years