CAIRO--More than 1,300 people died during this year’s Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia as the faithful faced extreme high temperatures at Islamic holy sites in the desert kingdom, Saudi ...

SARA: The Hajj is a pilgrimage all Muslims are expected to do once in their life if they can. Every year more than three millionmuslims make the journey to Mecca in Saudi Arabia to praise God or ...

Hajj is one of the best forms of worship and is one of the most sublime deeds because ... It is best not to push and shove, causing harm and being harmed by other people. When touching the Stone, a ...

(RNS) — The changes are not only sensible but, after last year's massive loss of life at the Hajj, necessary. (RNS) — Hajj is too expensive. Hajj is too crowded. Hajj isn’t regulated well ...

One of the five pillars of Islam is that each believer is called, at least once in their lives, to make the Hajj, the annual pilgrimage that starts and ends in the holy city of Mecca located in ...

to ban young children from performing the Hajj this year has sparked mixed reactions in people. Some feel it compromises the traditional meaning of pilgrimage, while others see it as a vital ...

Pilgrims perform prayers at the Grand Mosque in the Saudi holy city of Mecca ahead of the Hajj pilgrimage, on June 19, 2023. AFP Cairo: Saudi Arabia, Islam’s birthplace, has said it is fully ...

President John Dramani Mahama is being heavily criticised by a section of the public over his recent sod-cutting for the construction of an ultramodern state-of-the-art Hajj Village at Kotoka ...