A Filipino woman (C) holds her two-month old baby, Nigel, as Filipinos chant prayers during their 2014 New Year ritual inside a compound in slopes of the Sierra Madre Mountain Range, Rizal province, eastern Manila, the Philippines, 01 January 2014. Members of Jeri Sancte Missionary group, mostly rural healers who worship the 'high spirits of nature and planetary deities' welcome the New Year by kneeling for hours and chanted their prayers for a successful life in 2014 with protection from accidents, sicknesses, witchcraft and death. The Philippines is the only predominantly Roman Catholic country in Asia but it also hosts various sects and cults. EPA/DENNIS M. SABANGAN ( PHILIPPINES NEW YEAR 2014 )