This year, Saudi Arabia's Hajj Ministry has said between 1,000 and 10,000 people already residing in the kingdom will be allowed to perform the pilgrimage. Two-thirds of those pilgrims will be ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Muslim pilgrims have started arriving in Mecca for a drastically scaled-down hajj as Saudi authorities balance the importance of one of Islam’s key pillars with ...

The Saudi Arabian government has requested the DNA of the families of the missing Hajj pilgrims to be matched with several ...

MECCA, Saudi Arabia — Muslim pilgrims have been streaming into Saudi Arabia’s holy city of Mecca ahead of the start of the Hajj later this week, as the annual pilgrimage returns to its ...

Some 2.5 million people are expected to make the Hajj pilgrimage to Islam’s holiest site in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, this week. Reuters. Amr Nabil/AP ...

Pilgrims leave after offering prayers outside at the Grand Mosque during the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, early Friday, June 14, 2024.

The hajj pilgrimage, which once drew some 2.5 million Muslims from all walks of life from across the globe, is now almost unrecognizable. It is being scaled back for the second year in a row due ...

At the heart of the controversy is Keyi Rubath, a 19th-Century guest house built in the 1870s by Mayankutty Keyi, a wealthy Indian merchant from Malabar (modern-day Kerala), whose trading empire ...

Hajj in Mecca pared back again. Muslim pilgrimage to holy site restricted by pandemic. July 19, 2021 at 4:28 a.m. by The Associated Press ...

The Islamic pilgrimage lasts about five days, but traditionally Muslims begin arriving in Mecca weeks ahead of time. The hajj concludes with the Eid al-Adha celebration, marked by the distribution ...

Muslim pilgrims use umbrellas to shield themselves from the sun as they arrive to cast stones at pillars in the symbolic stoning of the devil, the last rite of the annual hajj, in Mina, near the ...

Hajj takes place in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. With the final month of the Islamic calendar, Dhul Hijjah, on its way, some Muslims will prepare to make their way to Saudi Arabia to perform an obligatory ...