Credit 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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Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2019 12:43:42 +0000
Senator Panfilo Lacson on Friday said that the issue on the P5-million Marawi rehabilitation fund was not about whether religion is more important than housing.
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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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Read moreCredit to Author: jvicente| Date: Fri, 31 May 2019 04:29:37 +0000
Saudi Arabia’s King Salman opened an emergency summit of Arab leaders in Islam’s holiest city of Mecca on Friday.
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