MANILA: When Rasmia Paniorotan’s daughter told her to get her passport ready, she could not have expected that it was in preparation for Hajj. Though fulfilling the spiritual journey that is one of the five pillars of Islam has been a lifelong dream of hers, it had felt impossible to reach after she lost her family home and business in Marawi, the city that was destroyed by months of fighting between militants and government forces in 2017.
