The hajj pilgrimage began in earnest Friday as Muslims from around the world converged on their holy land. At the tent city of Mina, many prayed before dawn in cloud-covered valleys near Mecca. It was ...

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MOUNT ARAFAT, Saudi Arabia – Muslim pilgrims from around the world began gathering before dawn Wednesday in the valley of Mount Arafat in Saudi Arabia for a day of prayer that marks the pinnacle of ...

Tears flowed and prayers filled the air as the annual Muslim hajj pilgrimage by almost two million believers from around the world reached its zenith Friday on a vast Saudi plain. "I am now a newborn ...

MOUNT ARAFAT, Saudi Arabia — Hundreds of thousands of Muslim pilgrims from around the world raised their hands to heaven and offered prayers of repentance on the sacred hill of Mount Arafat in Saudi ...

ARAFAT, Saudi ArabiaARAFAT, Saudi Arabia — They came in the dark of night, in the thousands, to clamber up the rocky hill called Mount Arafat. The mound southeast of Mecca is little known outside ...

ARAFAT, Saudi Arabia — They came in the dark of night, in the thousands, to clamber up the rocky hill called Mount Arafat. The mound southeast of Mecca is little known outside Islam. For non-Muslims, ...