Worship

After a 25 years of protests against the disappearance of their family members Turkey’s Saturday Mothers are weathering the pandemic by taking their vigils online

As the government loses itself in the dead ends it has created all by itself, we appear to be heading into very dangerous territory.

Two days ago, yet another horrible disaster took place in Mecca, near Islam?s holiest shrine, the Kaaba, and during the holy week of the hajj, the pilgrimage. An astonishing number of 753 pilgrims were killed in a stampede that took place near the point where the devil is ritually stoned. At least some 800 pilgrims were also reportedly injured.

At least 453 people were trampled to death and 719 injured in Mecca, Saudi Arabia during the annual Muslim pilgrimage of Hajj, Saudi Arabia’s Civil Defense Service reported. 220 ambulances and 4,000 rescue workers were deployed in the field for emergency treatment of the victims.

At least 220 people died and another 450 were injured on Thursday as a stampede occurred during the annual Hajj pilgrimage to the Islamic holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia.

The incident occurred at the neighbourhood of Mina, which is located five kilometres from Mecca.

The goal celebration of Beşiktaş’s Senegalese national Demba Ba, who kneels down to prostrate before God after goal, has stirred a religious debate in Turkey, with a popular televangelist declaring it a sin to perform the action in a random direction instead of toward the Kaaba.