PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, Md. (DC News Now) — A beloved couple from Maryland with deep ties to the local community passed away during a pilgrimage to Mecca due to severe heat. Haja Isatu Wurie, 65, and her husband, Alhaji Alieu Dausy, 71, served as part of County Executive Angela Alsobrooks’s team. They both died during […]
Muslim pilgrims have been streaming into Saudi Arabia’s holy city of Mecca ahead of the start of the Hajj later this week, as the annual pilgrimage returns to its monumental scale. Saudi officials say more than 1.5 million foreign pilgrims had arrived in the country by Tuesday, the vast majority by air, from across the […]
MECCA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Muslim pilgrims have been streaming into Saudi Arabia’s holy city of Mecca ahead of the start of the Hajj later this week, as the annual pilgrimage returns to its monumental scale. Saudi officials say more than 1.5 million foreign pilgrims have arrived in the country by Tuesday, the vast majority […]