Abandoned At the Pilgrim's Path
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
One by one, dozens of people with weary faces got off a bus at the Darussalam Mosque in Mojokerto, East Java. Some of them could not hold back their tears when they were picked up by relatives. "Not only is the money gone, but we feel ashamed half to death," said Sumarno, the group leader who returned home after failing to depart for the umrah (lesser pilgrimage) to Mecca.
This Mojokerto resident was a victim of fraud by a travel agency which claime
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