Muslims Begin Annual Hajj Rituals at Mecca

Nearly 2 million Muslims from around the world have begun the yearly hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia at Mecca, Islam's holiest site. "We are very blessed by Allah to be in this place, and we pray to Allah to make the Islamic nations from the West to the East in a better situation," Essam-Eddin Afifi, a pilgrim from Egypt, told the Associated Press. "We pray for the Islamic nations to overcome their enemies." The faithful started the annual five-day ritual Sunday...

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