By Jocelyn R. Uy Philippine Daily Inquirer A Catholic bishop is reminding the faithful that the Holy Day of The Innocents being observed Wednesday is not an occasion to pull pranks on people. Novaliches Bishop Emeritus Teodoro Bacani noted that many Filipino Catholics had come to associate the feast following Christmas with April Fool’s Day because of the word “innocent,” which in the Bible refers to infants and young children but to Filipinos may also mean “gullible” or “naïve.” “Filipinos think that when one is innocent, he is also easy to fool,” Bacani said in a phone interview with reporters Tuesday. The bishop explained that the feast also known as Niños Inocentes was not an excuse to play practical jokes but a commemoration of the Biblical story where King Herod of Judea ordered the massacre of all male children aged two years old and under in the town of Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus. In the Gospel according to Matthew, three ...