The day spent on Mount Arafat is the pinnacle of the five-day hajj pilgrimage, which all able-bodied Muslims are required to perform at least once. Muslims spend the day there in deep prayer, many ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Muslim pilgrims perform the Eid al-Adha morning prayer on Sunday, around the Kaaba shrine in Mecca - AFP Hundreds have died in ...

Eleven-year-old Sara is finding out more about the holy pilgrimage called Hajj that takes millions of Muslims to Mecca every ...

Water mist is sprayed on Muslim pilgrims as they walk towards the rocky hill known as the Mountain of Mercy, on the Plain of Arafat, during the annual Hajj pilgrimage, near the holy city of Mecca, ...

A husband and wife from Bowie, Maryland, had always dreamed of making the Hajj to Mecca. Their family says they were among more than 1,000 people who died on the annual five-day pilgrimage to Saudi ...

Hajj (the pillar of Pilgrimage) is the annual Islamic journey to the city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, for the purpose of visiting ...

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 authorities ...

MINA, Saudi Arabia — Muslim pilgrims used the early morning hours Monday to perform the second day of the symbolic stoning of the devil, hoping to escape the noontime summer heat that caused ...

(RNS) — For two years as the COVID-19 pandemic raged on, Sumaira Malik and her husband, Nauman Chaudary, left their deposit with Dar El Salam Travel for their planned hajj, or pilgrimage, to Mecca, ...

News COVID hajj restrictions leave streets of Mecca empty, pilgrimage businesses in trouble MECCA, Saudi Arabia (RNS) — As much as a quarter of the economy around Mecca relies on tourism and ...

MECCA, Saudi ArabiaMECCA, Saudi Arabia — Over 1.8 million Muslims are taking part in this week’s Hajj pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia, as one of the world’s largest religious ...