Mt. Arafat packed with hajj pilgrims, biggest amid virus
Mount Arafat—Huge crowds of robed Muslim pilgrims prayed on Saudi Arabia’s Mount Arafat on Friday, the climax of the biggest ...
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Saudi welcomes 1 million for biggest hajj pilgrimage since pandemic
By Rania Sanjar with Mohamad Ali Harissi in Dubai White-robed worshippers from around the world have packed the streets of ...
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Mecca businesses see hajj boom ending pandemic slump
"Business is back", exclaims Abdullah Mekhlafi at the shop where he sells prayer mats in Islam's holiest city, which is ...
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Saudi welcomes 1 million for biggest hajj pilgrimage since pandemic
By Rania Sanjar with Mohamad Ali Harissi White-robed worshippers from across the world have packed the streets of Mecca as ...
Read moreSaudi Arabia to allow 1 million hajj pilgrims
Saudi Arabia said Saturday it will permit one million Muslims from inside and outside the country to participate in this ...
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Pilgrims head to Mecca for 2nd pandemic hajj
Pilgrims will begin to arrive in the Muslim holy city of Mecca on Saturday for the second downsized hajj staged ...
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Saudi allows 60,000 vaccinated residents on hajj, bars foreigners again
Saudi Arabia announced Saturday it will allow 60,000 residents vaccinated against COVID to perform this year's hajj, but Muslims from ...
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Saudi Arabia concludes downsized hajj amid pandemic
Muslim pilgrims circled Islam's holiest site along socially distanced paths Sunday in the final ritual of the hajj, the smallest ...
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Restricted Hajj hits Somalia’s livestock economy
Mogadishu—The annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca is a time for celebration, not least among Somalia’s livestock herders and traders who ...
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Hajj goes virtual for lucky pilgrims
Khobar, Saudi Arabia—Faridah Bakti Yahra travelled alone to Mecca when she won the lottery of a lifetime to join this ...
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