Fanatic Filipinos flagellate themselves in front of churches, chapels and shrines in a ritual to atone for their sins in observance of Holy Week. Hundreds of barefoot male devotees with facial hoods whipped their bare backs bloody with strips of bamboo tied to a string as they went around in the Angeles city neighborhoods in Pampanga on Thursday and Friday. There were others who were carrying crosses and stopping for a pray along a long route of churches and shrines and chapels.