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The Hajj begins

How Middle East politics is influencing the religious nature of the annual pilgrimage

How the political situation in the Middle East is influencing the religious nature of the annual pilgrimage to Mecca.

Also on the programme: why the Catholic Church is encouraging new age believers to return to the old style religion; the renaissance of Jewish life in Germany and why the New Year of the Goat is a mixed blessing for Chinese believers.

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26 minutes

麻豆官网首页入口 World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project