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Saudi readies for ‘worst case scenario’ in sweltering hajj

Mina, Saudi Arabia—Near a sprawling tent city outside Mecca, Saudi hospital staff are preparing for a flood of heat-related cases as Muslim pilgrims begin hajj...

Pilgrims come together in Mecca under scorching desert heat

Mecca, Saudi Arabia—More than a million Muslim pilgrims poured into the holy city of Mecca ahead of the annual hajj, with authorities vowing to hold...

Hajj Toll

A man affected by the scorching heat is helped by another Muslim pilgrim and police officer the site of the symbolic ‘stoning of the...

Saudi clears Mecca of unregistered pilgrims

RIYADH – Saudi Arabia has said security forces had cleared hundreds of thousands of unregistered pilgrims from Mecca ahead of the hajj which begins...

Solons: Private sector should oversee Hajj

Muslim lawmakers want the operations of the annual Hajj for Filipino-Muslim pilgrims to be taken away from the National Commission on Muslim Filipinos (NCMF)...

DFA: Pinoys suffered injuries during Hajj

The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Friday said more than 200 Filipino pilgrims have been stranded in Muzdalifah, Saudi Arabia during the observance...

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 hajj pilgrimage since the...

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 Islam's holiest city ahead of...

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 preparing for the biggest...

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 Islam's holiest city prepares to...

Saudi 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 year’s hajj, a sharp...

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 during the coronavirus pandemic...

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 abroad will be barred...

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 in modern history as...
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