One million Muslims are about to embark on the most important religious event in the Islamic calender, as hundreds of thousands of global worshippers arrive in Saudi Arabia for Hajj. Hajj is one of ...

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MECCA, Saudi Arabia, Aug 8 (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of white-clad pilgrims, many gripping umbrellas to ward off Saudi Arabia's blistering summer sun, descended on Mecca this week ahead of the ...

MECCA, Saudi Arabia – More than 2 million pilgrims were gathered in the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia on Friday to perform initial rites of the hajj, an Islamic pilgrimage that takes the faithful ...

Last summer, for the first time in more than 15 years, I celebrated Eid ul-Adha with my extended family. At 8 a.m., chattering and dressed in our finest, we drove to the East Brunswick soccer field, ...

Dressed in a hijab and covered from head to toe, she felt something. Someone — a man — had grabbed onto her butt and would not let go. The Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, called hajj, was ...

Sunday marks the first day of the hajj, the annual pilgrimage of Muslims to Mecca. The journey to the holiest site in the Muslim world is one of the five pillars of Islam, and is expected to draw ...

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