Tag: hajj

Mount Arafat—Huge crowds of robed Muslim pilgrims prayed on Saudi Arabia’s Mount Arafat on Friday, the climax of the biggest ...

By Rania Sanjar with Mohamad Ali Harissi in Dubai White-robed worshippers from around the world have packed the streets of ...

"Business is back", exclaims Abdullah Mekhlafi at the shop where he sells prayer mats in Islam's holiest city, which is ...

By Rania Sanjar with Mohamad Ali Harissi White-robed worshippers from across the world have packed the streets of Mecca as ...

Saudi Arabia said Saturday it will permit one million Muslims from inside and outside the country to participate in this ...

Pilgrims will begin to arrive in the Muslim holy city of Mecca on Saturday for the second downsized hajj staged ...

Saudi Arabia announced Saturday it will allow 60,000 residents vaccinated against COVID to perform this year's hajj, but Muslims from ...

Muslim pilgrims circled Islam's holiest site along socially distanced paths Sunday in the final ritual of the hajj, the smallest ...

Mogadishu—The annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca is a time for celebration, not least among Somalia’s livestock herders and traders who ...

Khobar, Saudi Arabia—Faridah Bakti Yahra travelled alone to Mecca when she won the lottery of a lifetime to join this ...