{"id":21487,"date":"2026-05-25T06:35:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T06:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/?p=21487"},"modified":"2026-05-25T06:35:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T06:35:33","slug":"more-than-1-5-million-pilgrims-gather-in-mina-ahead-of-the-day-of-arafat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/2026\/05\/25\/more-than-1-5-million-pilgrims-gather-in-mina-ahead-of-the-day-of-arafat\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 1.5 million pilgrims gather in Mina ahead of the Day of Arafat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL: More than 1.5 million Muslim pilgrims from around the world have arrived in Mina to perform the annual Hajj pilgrimage.<br>Pilgrims entered Mina on Friday through various routes, tunnels, and bridges from Mecca and are expected to take part in the main Day of Arafat rituals on Saturday.<br>Mina, located between Mecca and Muzdalifah, lies around seven kilometres from Masjid al-Haram and hosts pilgrims on the eighth day of Dhul Hijjah.<br>Meanwhile, the Saudi National Center for Meteorology warned of extreme heat during the pilgrimage, predicting temperatures could reach 47 degrees Celsius.<br>According to Afghanistan\u2019s Ministry of Hajj and Religious Affairs, around 30,000 Afghan pilgrims were transported to Saudi Arabia this year through 97 flights operated by Ariana Afghan Airlines and Kam Air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: More than 1.5 million Muslim pilgrims from around the world have arrived in Mina to perform the annual Hajj pilgrimage.Pilgrims entered Mina on Friday through various routes, tunnels, and bridges from Mecca and are expected to take part in the main Day of Arafat rituals on Saturday.Mina, located between Mecca and Muzdalifah, lies around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[85],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21487"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21489,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21487\/revisions\/21489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}