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Mursalin Ahmad’s family fled to the roof and scaled a wall to escape. “Our lives were at stake. These people were lunatics.”
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MINA, Saudi Arabia — Close to 2.5 million pilgrims took part in a symbolic stoning of the devil in the final days of the hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia as Muslims around the world marked the start of the Eid al-Adha celebrations. In Mina, pilgrims spend the final days of hajj throwing pebbles at a […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: ryanl| Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2019 07:57:00 +0000
ILIGAN CITY—The Muslim community in the Lanao provinces are preparing for a grand observance of one of Islam’s biggest feasts, Eid’l Adha.
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Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2019 06:57:59 +0000
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 along a path traversed by the Prophet Muhammad some 1,400 years ago.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Dennis Maliwanag| Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2019 00:26:07 +0000
A decade after deadly riots tore through his hometown, Kamilane Abudushalamu still vividly recalls the violence that left him an exile.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Dennis Maliwanag| Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2019 02:17:21 +0000
The U.S. government expressed deep concerns to the U.N. about a reported trip by the U.N. counterterrorism chief to the restive Xinjiang region in China’s far west.
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2019 13:17:41 +0000
President Duterte has urged COA not to imprison the HUDCC chief over the P5 million Marawi rehabilitation fund used for last year’s Hajj trip of some displaced residents.
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Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2019 12:36:45 +0000
President Duterte has defended the use of Marawi rehabilitation funds for the pilgrimage of some displaced residents to Mecca in Saudi Arabia.
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Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Thu, 30 May 2019 07:06:08 +0000
Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister has urged Muslim nations to confront recent attacks in the region that the U.S. and its allies have blamed on Iran with “all means of force and firmness.”
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Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 13:16:21 +0000
Indian police said Thursday they are probing a suspected fresh case of a Muslim man being killed by so-called Hindu cow vigilantes.
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