Striking images showed several separate feet of faithful dressed in white surrounding the Kaaba New Delhi: In years before the coronavirus, millions of pilgrims from around the world flocked to Islam’s holiest place to attend hajj, one of the world’s largest religious gatherings. However, with a virus-induced ban on large …
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In the years before the coronavirus, some three million white-clad pilgrims from around the world flocked to Islam’s holiest sites to attend Hajj under the scorching sun of Saudi Arabia. With the pandemic making large gatherings impossible, only a few thousand pilgrims, Saudis, and foreign residents in the kingdom can …
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On Monday, July 27 at 7:30 p.m. GMT:The Islamic Hajj ritual is expected to begin on July 29, but in the midst of a global pandemic, it will look different than anything the Muslim world has seen before. Saudi Arabia, home to the holy city of Mecca where the pilgrimage …
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“> Germany It put an entire district on a local shutdown for the first time since it eased its restrictions in early May, after 1,553 employees at the Tönnies meat-processing plant in the western city of Gütersloh tested positive for the virus. Around 360,000 people in the area will be …
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