{"id":74116,"date":"2022-07-07T15:30:14","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T15:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/hajj-crowds-move-to-mina-as-pilgrimage-pinnacle-nears"},"modified":"2022-07-07T15:30:14","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T15:30:14","slug":"hajj-crowds-move-to-mina-as-pilgrimage-pinnacle-nears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/hajj-crowds-move-to-mina-as-pilgrimage-pinnacle-nears","title":{"rendered":"Hajj crowds move to Mina as pilgrimage pinnacle nears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Muslim pilgrims arrive under a burning sun at the encampment in Mina \/AFP Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims journeyed from Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Mecca to a white-tented city in Mina on Thursday as they neared the highlight of the biggest hajj ritual since the coronavirus pandemic began. Worshippers took buses or walked to Mina, seven kilometres (four miles) from Mecca&#8217;s Grand Mosque, Islam&#8217;s holiest site, where they circled the imposing black Kaaba at the start of the rituals on Wednesday. Dressed in simple white robes, the pilgrims will spend the night in the air-conditioned white tents of Mina, which sits in a narrow valley surrounded by rocky mountains and is transformed each year into a vast encampment. &#8220;I feel great. This is all to be closer to God,&#8221; Tunisian pilgrim Khaled Bin Jomaa, 44, said as he entered the camp on foot, carrying an umbrella and a prayer mat. The pilgrims are positioning themselves for the highlight of the hajj on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims journeyed from Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Mecca to a white-tented city in Mina on Thursday as they neared the highlight of the biggest hajj ritual since the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,101],"tags":[62,69,55,102],"class_list":["post-74116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-coronavirus","tag-religion","tag-society","tag-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}