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Security authorities have confirmed that all this year's Hajj pilgrims were transported from Mina to Arafat early Friday morning in ease and comfort, adding the security cordon around the holy sites will continue for one more day to prevent…
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Hundreds of thousands of Muslim pilgrims from around the world raised their hands to heaven and offered prayers of repentance on the sacred hill of Mount Arafat in Saudi Arabia on Friday, an intense day of worship considered to be the…
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Statistics of the Ministry of Hajj and Umrah on the movement of receiving and leaving pilgrims in Medina revealed the arrival of 375,918 pilgrims of different nationalities who came through air and land ports. The statistics indicated…
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King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah received its first Moroccan pilgrims through the Makkah Route Initiative. They departed from the Makkah Route hall at Mohammed V International Airport in Casablanca and were greeted by…
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Yesterday, Friday, 8 Egyptians were killed and others injured, when a bus overturned on the Medina Road in Saudi Arabia. Media reports said that a tragic accident occurred to Egyptians who were performing the rites of Umrah in Saudi…
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A million pilgrims will be allowed to perform Hajj in 2022, according to Saudi authorities. The numbers attending the annual event were severely reduced in the previous two years to combat the coronavirus pandemic. Pilgrims will need…
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Pilgrims in Saudi Arabia flocked this morning, Tuesday, to the Kaaba, to perform the Tawaf al-Ifadah, amid intensive precautionary measures, on the first day of Eid al-Adha. The pilgrims also performed the Eid prayer in the Noble…
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With the sunrise of this Monday morning, corresponding to the date of the 9th of Dhul-Hijjah, pilgrims flocked in Saudi Arabia to the level of Arafat, what is known as the stop of Arafah or the day of Arafat. On their way to Arafat, the…
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The Saudi Ministry of Hajj and Umrah has stopped issuing prayer permits in the Grand Mosque, starting Friday, in preparation for Hajj to receive pilgrims. Prayer permits will be issued again starting July 24, the ministry said. The…
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Members of the Russian peacekeepers in the Karabakh region accompanied a crowd of Armenian pilgrims, who visited two Christian monasteries on the lands that were handed over to Azerbaijan under the agreement to end the war between Yerevan…
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