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A Hotter Hajj as Climate Change May Outpace Mitigation Efforts

par This Is Beirut, 13/06 19:01 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

Climate Change hajj Heat Deaths Mecca Saudi Arabia

From misting systems to heat-reflective road coverings, Saudi officials are trying to aid hajj pilgrims in coping with heat, but scientists caution that climate change may outpace these efforts. The annual pilgrimage, one of the world's largest religious gatherings, coincides again this year with the hot Saudi summer, with officials predicting ...

Million-Plus Begin Hajj Pilgrimage Under Shadow of Gaza War

par This Is Beirut, 14/06 10:34 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

hajj Mecca Million Pilgrimage Saudi Arabia

More than a million Muslim pilgrims were in Mecca Friday for the start of a hajj pilgrimage held against the grim backdrop of the Gaza war and in exhausting summer heat. Crowds of robed worshipers will circle the Kaaba, the black cubic structure at Mecca's Grand Mosque, with many expressing sadness eight months into the Israel-Hamas war. "Our ...

Muslim Pilgrims Pray on Mount Arafat in Hajj Climax

par This Is Beirut, 15/06 10:34 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

hajj ISLAM Mecca Mount Arafat Saudi Arabia

More than 1.5 million Muslims will pray on Mount Arafat in soaring temperatures on Saturday, in the high-point and most gruelling day of the annual hajj pilgrimage. Worshippers from all over the world will climb the rocky, 70-metre (230-feet) hill, about 20 kilometres (12 miles) from Mecca, where the Prophet Mohammed is believed to have given his ...

Last Major Hajj Ritual, on First Eid Day

par This Is Beirut, 16/06 17:55 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

Eid al-Adha hajj ISLAM Mecca Saudi Arabia

Pilgrims on Sunday performed the last major ritual of the hajj, the "stoning of the devil", in western Saudi Arabia, as Muslims the world over celebrated the Eid al-Adha holiday. Beginning at dawn, the 1.8 million Muslims undertaking the pilgrimage this year threw seven stones at each of the three concrete walls symbolising the devil in the Mina ...

Diplomats Say at Least 600 Pilgrims Died During Hajj

par This Is Beirut, 19/06 10:10 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

Climate Change hajj Heat Deaths Mecca Saudi Arabia

An Arab diplomat told AFP on Wednesday that at least 600 Egyptians died during the hajj pilgrimage, citing searing heat that reached 51.8 degrees Celsius (125 degrees Fahrenheit) on Monday. “All of them (the Egyptians) died because of heat,” except for one who sustained fatal injuries during a minor crowd crush, one of the diplomats said, ...

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