MUSLIM WORLD MARKS NEW YEAR

COTABATO CITY, Philippines—Today is new year’s day in the Muslim world.

On this first day of the year 1436 in the Hijra calendar, Muslims also commemorate the flight to Medina of the Prophet Mohammad and his companions to escape persecution from the ruling clans of Mecca in A.D. 578.

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