Mecca

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Muslim pilgrims have started arriving in Mecca for a drastically scaled-down hajj as Saudi…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia has issued guidelines for the 1,000 or so pilgrims that will be…

CAIRO (Reuters) — Saudi Arabia announced health protocols to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus in the 2020 hajj…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Muslims around the world hoping for a once-in-a-lifetime journey to Mecca to perform the…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — This was supposed to be Saudi Arabia’s year to shine as host of the…

Saudi Arabia is expected to scale back or call off this year’s hajj pilgrimage for the first time in its…

CAIRO (Reuters) — Saudi Arabia will begin easing restrictions on movement and travel this week, more than two months after…

CAIRO (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia eased curfews on Sunday across the country, while keeping 24-hour curfews in the city of…

JERUSALEM (Reuters) — The holy month of Ramadan began on Friday with Islam’s holiest sites in Saudi Arabia and Jerusalem…

CAIRO (Reuters) — Saudi king Salman approved performing Tarawih in the two holy mosques and reducing them with the continued…